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Nurses report wage, staffing dissatisfaction but most say they'll stick around until retirement, report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Despite challenges with compensation, staffing shortages, safety and more, most nurses want to remain in the field until retirement, a new report found. |

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CMS' staffing proposal will cost nursing homes $6.8B for 102K nurse hires, industry-backed report finds

Fierce Healthcare

Meeting the Biden administration’s minimum staffing proposals for nursing homes would require facilities nationwide to hire more than 102,000 additional nurses at a cost of $6.8

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

Healthcare It News

Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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Where are all the nurses? Hospitals, advocates disagree on crisis

Health Care Dive

Hospitals and nursing unions clash on what’s driving sluggish application rates for open registered nurse positions at hospitals — a lack of qualified candidates or a lack of interest.

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Burnout, Tele-Health, and Accessibility: How to Manage the Expectation of a 24-Hour Workday

Speaker: Keith Carlson — BSN, RN, NC-BC, Host of The Nurse Keith Podcast

In this webinar with Nurse Keith Carlson, we will address: Burnout prevention through SWOT analysis and compassionate self-assessment. The expectation of a 24-hour workday is unhealthy and intolerable for hard-working physicians and RNs, even as patients need more out of the world of 21st-century medicine. The current state of the industry.

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20K Kaiser nurses, nurse practitioners ratify new contract

Health Care Dive

After threatening to wage a two-day strike, nurses and nurse practitioners at Kaiser Permanente facilities in Northern California ratified a deal with the system that includes the addition of more than 2,000 new nursing positions.

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Lawmakers to reintroduce federal nurse staffing ratio bill

Health Care Dive

The bill mirrors California’s nurse staffing law which took effect in 2004 and outlines exactly how many patients a nurse in specific hospital units can care for at one time.

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