nurses
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How Hospitals Are Reducing Gun Violence, Protecting Patients and Staff
Hospitals are places of healing, but they have also become sites of gun violence. A panel at the MedCity News INVEST conference discussed the ways hospitals can reduce threats and de-escalate situations before they become violent.
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Report: Nurse Understaffing Is Becoming More Deadly for Patients
More than 90% of nurses in Michigan believe that understaffing is negatively affecting the quality of care they’re able to provide, according to a new report. The percentage of respondents who know of a patient death being caused by nurses being assigned too many patients nearly doubled in the past seven years — from 22% in 2016 to 42% in 2023.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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Debate Rages Between NPs and Docs on Whether Nurses Should Operate Independently
A contentious debate regarding whether or not nurse practitioners should have more freedom and be less tethered to doctors continues as lawmakers in Pennsylvania spark discussion.
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Sometimes Striking Is the Only Way Nurses Can Protect Patient Safety, Expert Says
There’s been a recent wave of nurse strikes, but Theresa Brown — a nurse and New York Times bestselling author — said she’s never met a nurse who happily embraces striking. Nurses only strike when it’s the only option left to protect patients and deliver quality care, she declared.
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‘Uber for Nurses’ Launches Updated App As Employee Base Grows
Hydreight recently launched an updated app so that the hundreds of nurses on its platform can have a more streamlined experience. Often referred to as “Uber for nurses,” the platform allows nurses be their own boss and work as independent 1099 contractors.
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Why Providers Need to Stop Overlooking Burnout Among Clinical Support Staff
While levels have gone down from their pandemic peak, burnout remains high among clinical support staff, according to a new report. It found that 70% of clinical support staff experience moderate to severe burnout, with 32% categorizing their burnout as high to severe. Along with the obvious effect it has on support staff’s wellbeing, burnout also negatively impacts patient care.
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Housing strategies for providers to better accommodate traveling nurses
Housing is a complex space requiring a high degree of creativity. There are a number of decision points across the selection process, and without concrete, tested experience healthcare systems can run the risk of under-serving nomadic employees.
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How to find proper housing for nomadic healthcare workers
We may acknowledge just how essential the nomadic healthcare workforce has been in efforts to control the Covid-19 pandemic, but what’s often overlooked is how and where these workers are being housed.
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Nurses in crisis over Covid dig in for better work conditions
Nurses and health care workers across the country are finding strength in numbers and with labor actions not seen in years.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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Hospitals, Health Tech, Payers
Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic to deploy NeuroFlow’s mental health tools across 3 hospitals
Through a program funded by Independence Blue Cross Foundation, 1,800 frontline healthcare workers across the three Pennsylvania-based hospitals will gain access to NeuroFlow’s technology, which will measure and track their mental health symptoms and provide support via educational resources and a clinical care team.
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Steward Health v Aya Healthcare: 4 things to know
The Texas-based health system first sued the staffing firm for “price gouging” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, as wages for nurses shot up from $75 to $160. But the firm countersued, claiming that Steward — which owes Aya over $40 million — previously did not raise objections to its prices.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Helping nurses bounce back from the devastating effects of Covid-19
Closing the gap between documentation and communication and ensuring software enhances rather than distracts from workflow are two ways that the burden on nurses can be eased at this time.
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Let’s hang on to what we’ve got: why employee retention is crucial
Retention will always be a challenge, but it is one that can be met by putting the right people in the right positions, supporting them and creating the best culture possible.
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San Francisco startup secures $20M for nursing jobs platform
The company, Trusted Health, offers a technology employment platform that nurses can use to find flexible job opportunities as well as permanent staff positions.
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Nurses union’s protest of Community Health Systems goes beyond JPM
At JPM earlier this month, National Nurses United protested CHS and its CEO, Wayne Smith, who was speaking at the conference. But the union’s protests in San Francisco are part of a larger effort to force CHS to change.