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Dual Threats from Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Without them, the retired Episcopal priest said, "I would be, and my building would be, desolate." Goodwin Living, a faith-based nonprofit, runs three retirement communities in northern Virginia for people who live independently, need a little assistance each day, have memory issues, or require the availability of around-the-clock nurses.

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AHA Exec: 'Workforce Is the Number One Concern for Hospitals Across the Country'

Health Leaders | Nursing

The hospital association says it is focusing advocacy on workplace violence, Medicare residency slots, the nursing shortage, and workforce diversity. Strengthening the healthcare workforce is one of the top priorities of the American Hospital Association's advocacy agenda for 2023.

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To Address the Nursing Faculty Shortage, Start with the Pay Gap

Amercan Journal of Nursing

In 2023, there were 1,977 full-time faculty vacancies that were unfilled, or 7.8% Faculty shortages are projected to worsen over the next decade as an aging faculty workforce approaches retirement. 2815 (the Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act of 2023), which if enacted will better define the scope of the problem.

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The Exec: What Nursing Practice Redesign, or Evolution, Looks Like at Indiana University Health

Health Leaders | Nursing

Care models had not wavered much since hospitals became medicalized in the early 20 th century, and particularly since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were created in 1965, says Jason Gilbert, PhD MBA RN NEA-BC , executive vice president and chief nurse executive, Indiana University Health.

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Long-term home health care can be a gift to nurses as well as clients

Health Leaders | Nursing

I didn’t even know long-term home health care existed until I retired. I went to the agency SeniorsPlus to learn about Medicare and also learned about all the other wonderful work they do, including keeping people safe in their homes when a nursing home is the alternative. One way they do this is by getting them a nurse to visit.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

Then, post-pandemic, we’re seeing the effects that many more people either retired or decided to leave the bedside and go into other roles. You’ll get better reimbursement from Medicare, the big blues, and everybody else in insurance. The age range is higher than a staff nurse’s, so many are retiring.

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Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Health Providers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Editor’s note: This article appears in the July-September 2023 edition of HealthLeaders magazine. The only time you'll likely find a gastroenterologist or neurologist in rural America is if they've retired there. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. What will it take?