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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

This means NPs can evaluate patients, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate and manage treatments (including prescribing medications) under the licensing authority of the State Board of Nursing. to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022). to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022). of claims in 2017 to 37.1%

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Nursing innovation and the diversity innovation paradox

American Nurse

As the nursing profession in the US is vast and varied—with over 5 million licensed practical, registered, and advance practiced nurses—encouraging and supporting their innovation could help to decrease the diversity innovation paradox in some of these areas. leadership in innovation. Access full dissertation here: [link]. Nursing Fact Sheet.

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

Teaming a nurse with an LPN/CNA, she says, enables the nurse to work at the top of his or her license. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.

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The Exec: Nurse Navigators Guide Cancer Patients Through Their Entire Care Journey

Health Leaders | Nursing

Prior to creating Cancer Care Direct, the cancer institute offered navigation to breast cancer patients beginning in January 2022, said Rita Mercieca, RN, senior vice president and chief administrator. How did that develop? so that’s tremendous.

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) states that a healthy work environment (adequate staffing, retention, reduced moral distress, and low rates of workplace violence) enables nurses to provide the highest standards of compassionate patient care while being satisfied at work. By 2022, BMC’s attrition rate decreased to 19%.

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7 Steps to Obtain a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Degree

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

A BSN is one of two educational options for becoming a registered nurse (RN); you can also earn a two-year Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), take the licensing exam, and become an RN. 4 #4: Get Your RN License Next, you’ll need to register for an RN license in your state.

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Medicare Care Compare: Publicly reported performance measures

American Nurse

For example, patient education about medication serves as a performance measure in all healthcare settings, whereas preventing unnecessary hospitalization relates to post-acute care settings. The NAM reports classify healthcare quality measures as structural, process, outcome, cost of care, or patient experience of care.