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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday ruled (Link To Come) to block the Department of Education’s final rule establishing new federal student loan limits.
To strengthen the federal government’s vaccine policy-making process, the Vaccine Integrity Project at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will conduct research.
Patient portal messaging has climbed since 2020, underscoring a significant change in how clinicians deliver care, a national analysis of electronic health record data found.
In an American Hospital Association podcast, a Denver Health representative explains how the health system partners with housing providers, social services and community partners to create pathways to recovery for people experiencing homelessness.
Quality measurement reporting requirements increasingly consume resources that hospitals could direct toward better care, according to chief medical officers.
While researchers’ measure nursing turnover’s organizational cost, the profession lacks a method to estimate the cost of nurses quitting the profession, say researchers Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, and Robert Longyear, BS.
A Time magazine article attributes nurses’ proximity to patients as the reason the public has ranked nurses in a Gallup poll as the most trusted profession for 25 years.
AONL and 47 other members of the Nursing Community Coalition thanked congressional members for introducing the bipartisan States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment Act (S. 1101/H.R. 2332) and encouraged passage this year.
Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center has relied on virtual nursing to reduce patient falls and catheter-associated infections, as well as to decrease travel nurse utilization.
To improve training and mentoring for nightshift nurses, Sentara Health hired virtual nurses with more than five years of experience in a variety of roles, says Amber Price, DNP, RN, senior vice president and enterprise CNO.