University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The weight of life-altering decisions that must be made constantly and the knowledge that there is never enough time to provide for your patients can undermine staff efficacy and exacerbate personnel shortages. decrease in pneumonia infections among surgical patients to an increase of one additional work hour per RN.

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Now, as a nurse manager at HUMC, Porter’s great-grandmother’s influence is at work caring for elder care patients and as an adjunct clinical instructor for Muhlenberg Nursing School, part of JFK University Medical Center in Plainfield, N.J. I started in 2019 and graduated in 2021 with my MBA. I obtained a master’s degree.

Nurse Manager

Nurse.com

JANUARY 23, 2023

Although the 2022 rating is two percentage points lower than the 2021 poll and 10 percentage points lower than the 2020 poll, when nurses were on the front lines at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses still far surpassed the professions — medical doctors (62%) and pharmacists (58%) — ranked second and third, respectively.

Nursing Burnout

Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 1, 2023

Rita Mercieca, RN, senior vice president and chief administrator, Northwell Health Cancer Institute HealthLeaders: Prior to Cancer Care Direct, a nurse navigation program originated for breast cancer patients in January 2022. HL: Which patients qualify to get a nurse navigator? How did that develop? Mercieca: Anybody.

Best Practices

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.

Long Term Care

Relias

JANUARY 11, 2023

But momentum will continue, since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in 2021 that it plans to transition fully to value-based reimbursement by 2030. Such a system inevitably uses more time and resources — and incurs greater costs for both providers and patients — than models that prioritize value.

Medicare

Relias

AUGUST 5, 2022

Eventually he transitioned out of nursing and into education, where he taught at the college level, then moved into the business side of healthcare. After being married one year, the Baieras were excited to find out they were expecting during the summer of 2021. Baiera is also a published author and entrepreneur who runs Step2Health.

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