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Hospital Understaffing and Poor Work Conditions Associated with Physician and Nurse Burnout and Intent to Leave

Penn Nursing

A unique collaborative study on hospital clinician wellbeing by teams at 60 of the nation's best hospitals, defined by Magnet Hospital Recognition, was published today in JAMA Health Forum.

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Hospitals will get $1.7 billion more federal funding. Will this reduce waiting times?

Nursing Review

Other changes that could help include: Setting national performance targets for states and territories to reduce their waiting lists Stronger monitoring of performance Holding public hospital managers more accountable for achieving their waiting time targets. A new National Health Reform Agreement is due to take effect in 2026.

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Too many Australians miss out on essential medical care every year. Here’s how to fix ‘GP deserts’

Nursing Review

That means they can work across the region, in clinics funded by the federal government and hospitals managed by the state government, without losing employment benefits. There, trainee doctors retain a single employer throughout their placements. That helps trainees to stay closely connected to their communities and their patients.

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Nola Nurses United claims retaliation by LCMC Health, set to strike again

Health Leaders | Nursing

Registered nurses at University Medical Center in New Orleans are preparing to go back on strike Monday, accusing hospital management of retaliation and union-busting tactics.

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Safety and care failings in Northern Beaches Hospital audit

Nursing Review

Mr Park said the government has moved to return components of the Northern Beaches hospital back into public hands. He denied any accusations about the government's failure to act on prior red flags given by the hospitals management, and any earlier decision on leaving the contract wouldve been at a cost to the taxpayer.

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Baby Seal Robots Are Comforting Older Adults on Penn Presbyterian’s Acute Care Unit

Penn Nursing

She pitched the idea to hospital management, got the green light, and in 2019 launched a study to see if the Paros could decrease patient agitation and pain symptoms. “I thought these robots were the most ridiculous things I had ever seen,” Cacchione said, “until I actually picked one up and felt it and interacted with it myself.”

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Code yellow at Gosford and NT hospitals

Nursing Review

When the hospital management came to me [.] NT Health chief executive Chris Hosking said he has always maintained that if the set of conditions for a ‘code yellow’ were reached, he would have no problem issuing the call.