Nursing news and information

Nursing unions wanting higher staffing ratios have more ammunition thanks to a new study concluding that increasing nurse staffing levels could help hospitals avoid Medicare penalties for avoidable readmissions.
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The federal government's jobs report last month left many eager to find out if the next report would again show weak gains or even losses in hospital employment in spite of durable growth in the healthcare sector at large.
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A federal judge has tossed out a long-running class-action lawsuit that claimed the federal government is illegally placing financial burdens on Medicare patients who are hospitalized as outpatients under observation care.
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Elizabeth D'Alesio has 10 new patients. She prescribes their medications, orders their labs, performs diagnostic testing and provides wellness advice. But D'Alesio isn't a doctor. She's a nurse practitioner who, thanks to a law passed last year, was allowed to open her own practice in Hopedale,...
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Envision Healthcare Holdings has emerged from the quiet period following last month's initial public offering, and analysts initiating coverage on the Greenwood, Colo.-based company have a lot to say—all of it good.
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Now that the Obama administration has delivered its long-awaited rule making home-care aides eligible for overtime pay and the federal minimum wage, employers who send out the aides must weigh the impact of a more even playing field.
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The way Airica Steed sees it, there was never any doubt she would pursue a career in healthcare.Every woman in her family was a nurse, including her mother—a pediatric nurse and the person she calls her first role model. “I wanted to follow in her footsteps,” says Steed, 35.
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The Obama administration on Tuesday dramatically increased the number of home-care workers eligible to receive overtime and federal minimum wage pay.
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New York is requiring anyone who might come in contact with patients at hospitals and other healthcare facilities to get a vaccine or wear masks during the upcoming flu season, an ambitious effort to control the flu in the places it is known to spread.
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Karen Drenkard will join GetWellNetwork on Jan. 1 as chief clinical/nursing officer, a new position at the patient-engagement technology company.
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