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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

At CMS , alterations to Medicaid are being implemented behind closed doors. The result is devastating: millions of children and families are being pushed further into crisis, with less access to care and fewer safety nets to catch them when they fall. Medicaid is not just a budget itemits a lifeline. What Can We Do?

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2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Scorecard: What It Means for Nurses

Registered Nursing

This progress is credited to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion and enhanced marketplace subsidies. However, these gains are fragile: with policy changes to reduce Medicaid access, millions could lose coverage, impacting patients and providers alike. 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%). Primary health care experiences of autistic adults and their caregivers: Utilization, care coordination, and other challenges as reported by caregivers. link] Stein Duker, L. I., & Goodman, E.

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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. But we’re not superhuman. We need support. We need to be heard.

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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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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.