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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

Private duty nursing is a growing and in-demand field offering a highly personalized approach to patient care. Unlike home health nurses who visit several patients a day for short periods, private duty nurses typically remain with one patient for an extended shift, providing continuous, hands-on care. What Is a Private Duty Nurse?

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2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Scorecard: What It Means for Nurses

Registered Nursing

states deliver high-quality, affordable, and equitable care. The 2025 edition sheds light on fragile healthcare improvements amid growing disparities – and highlights opportunities for transformation. What the 2025 Scorecard Measures The Commonwealth Fund ranked all 50 states and Washington, D.C.,

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The Relentless School Nurse: The Uphill Battle – Reflections and Realities as Another School Year Closes

The Relentless School Nurse

From undermining environmental safeguards that affect air quality and asthma rates, to efforts to eliminate school meal nutrition standards, to ongoing attacks on Medicaid CHIP funding and vaccinations, children’s health and well-being are under assault. Rest up, friends, the 2025-2026 is around the corner. We need support.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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Home health nursing

American Nurse

Patient-centered care focused on self-sufficiency The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the term “home health” to describe a federal health insurance program that provides intermittent short-term care to help patients recover from illness and become as self-sufficient as possible at home. Home health care.