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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

A private duty nurse offers individualized medical care to patients outside of traditional healthcare facilities. They are typically hired through private agencies, Medicaid waiver programs, or directly by families. Apply to private duty agencies or network with care coordinators and families.

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The Relentless School Nurse: When Policy Harms Children – A School Nurse’s Call to Action

The Relentless School Nurse

Now more than ever, we are bearing witness to a dangerous unraveling of public health and education infrastructure, driven by policy decisions at the highest levels of government. At CMS , alterations to Medicaid are being implemented behind closed doors. Department of Education. Medicaid is not just a budget itemits a lifeline.

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2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Scorecard: What It Means for Nurses

Registered Nursing

It's a roadmap pointing to areas where the nursing workforce can lead change, especially in preventive care, maternal health, and equitable care delivery. This progress is credited to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion and enhanced marketplace subsidies. led the nation with just 3.4%

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Nurse Practitioner Driven Home Based Primary Care Access and Immunization Intiative for Adults with Autism and/or Intellectual Disability

American Nurse

The most frequently observed category of insurance was public Medicare/Medicaid (n = 27, 84.38%). An interesting finding showing that more education is needed is related to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The most frequently observed category of race was Caucasian (n = 22, 68.75%). References Ali, D., O’Brien, S.,

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

The Relentless School Nurse

I spent hours tracking immunizations, educating families, managing illness protocols, and sometimes being the only source of healthcare a student had access to. We’re Expected to Do It All We are Chief Wellness Officers, health educators, care coordinators, emergency responders, mental health first aiders, and advocates.

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What Care Coordination Is and How To Implement It

Relias

Integrated care focuses on the whole person by coordinating physical and behavioral health care along with substance use treatment. There are different models for how integrated care is delivered, but care coordination makes all the difference. What is care coordination?

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

These children account for one-third of total healthcare spending and 40% of Medicaid’s total spending on kids,” according to a Children’s Hospital Association news release. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said. Children’s hospitals in the U.S. This accounted for a 2.6%