Penn Nursing

OCTOBER 14, 2021

So Do Their Patients Leadership Health Care and Social Justice: Perfect Together The Vaccinators: Nurses and Needles on the Pandemic Front Lines As the Page Turns Dean’s Letter Integrated Innovation Download Fall 2021 issue Menu Button Feature Roads, Bridges, and … Caregivers? Media Spotlight Nurses Deserve Better.

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American Nurse

JULY 2, 2025

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The Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 1, 2025

We are adopting trauma-informed care approaches and collaborating with counselors and mental health professionals to create support systems within schools. School nurses are responsible for monitoring these conditions, administering medications, and educating students on self-care practices.

Mental Health

American Medical Compliance

MARCH 12, 2025

Understanding these principles helps providers uphold ethical care, protect residents’ dignity, and comply with legal standards. Our Continuing Medical Education (CME) program is committed to enhancing the knowledge, skills, and professional performance of healthcare providers to improve patient care outcomes.

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American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

Most Americans regularly trim their toenails, but less than half adhere to other foot care regimens. Women care for their feet more regularly than men, and younger people are better able to perform recommended foot care regimens than older individuals. Foot care certification The U.S.

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The Relentless School Nurse

JUNE 18, 2025

The Weight We Carried Mental Health Crises Are Part of My/Our Daily Routine Each day brought students to my office with invisible wounds, panic attacks, sleeplessness, self-harm, and deep anxiety. I pushed for access to care, connected families to community resources, and called every clinic in town until I found someone who would help.

Mental Health

The Relentless School Nurse

JULY 4, 2025

Medicaid Cuts: Turning Our Backs on Vulnerable Children Despite assurances from its backers, independent analyses show the bill will lead to deep federal cuts to Medicaid—up to $800 billion over the next decade. Medicaid and CHIP together insure nearly half of all children in the U.S., The passage of H.R. This is about children.

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 5, 2023

So basically…are you doing everything you should be doing, not only in the types of care you are providing but also in the business aspect of your practice? Are you providing quality care and in compliance with standards of care? They can be educational and help you improve the quality of care you deliver and your business.

Business

American Medical Compliance

MARCH 15, 2024

Consequently, these will lead to financial losses and poor patient care. Furthermore, it prohibits knowingly submitting false or false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, or other federally funded healthcare programs. Compliance with physician self-referral law requires strict adherence to its provisions.

HIPAA

Healthcare Law Insights blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This FCA action is a notable reminder to healthcare providers that they must be careful in representations they make to the government. Two years later, in 2022, the defendant was charged with and pled guilty to Medicaid fraud. That is a catastrophic consequence for a Medicaid-related crime that netted $146,000.

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American Medical Compliance

APRIL 24, 2024

The following Anti-Kickback Statute and Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark Law) Training educates healthcare providers on the provisions of the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law. Consequently, the healthcare compliance statute covers any item that federal health care programs pay for.

Medicaid

Relias

MAY 16, 2025

Patients unplanned returns to the hospital after discharge drive up costs, disrupt recovery, and reflect gaps in care. Under HRRP, hospitals received financial penalties if their readmission rates exceeded the national average a move that drove greater attention to discharge protocols and transitional care.

Self-Care

American Nurse

JUNE 3, 2024

adults have received a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) Many clinical nurses don’t have the knowledge needed to customize patient-centered care to meet the individual needs of adults with ASD. Many organizations lack the resources to support clinical nurses in identifying adults with ASD and implementing appropriate care.

Communication

American Nurse

JULY 2, 2024

Kim King Kim King, MSN, FNP-C, who consults on cannabis care through her business, Thrive to Care and Wellness Education Consulting, hopes to see cannabis education added to nursing program curricula in the next 5 years. We’ve got to educate all nurses, from LPNs to RNs to APRNs,” she said. It needs to go further,” she said.

Business

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

ANA-NY member delegate candidates submit self-nominations during the annual ANA-NY elections. You might want to consider this—it is a wonderful opportunity to enrich your understanding of national nursing and health care issues. Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) (H.R. Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) (H.R.

APRN

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It is caring for an individual with a disability, acute condition, or chronic illness and helping them reach their maximum potential and function or adapt to the new physical or neurological challenges they are facing. In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP).

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. They now support clinical teams throughout the patient care continuum to help ease the overwhelming demands and address serious healthcare issues.

Chief Nursing Officer

Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER). Long‐term acute care hospitals. Short-term acute care hospitals. We all love free tools that help our organizations perform better. Home health agencies. Critical access hospitals.

Medicare

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

With the successes reaped during the pilot of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to accelerate the results nationwide. This measure also includes two aggregate measures, which are called total normalized composite (TNC) self-care and TNC mobility.

Medicare

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Healthcare organizations receive scores from the HCAHPS survey , which according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.” While this behavior may boost satisfaction ratings, it can also jeopardize quality of care.

Patient Satisfaction

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

NURSES IN MISSOURI must be able to assess a client’s ability to perform activities of daily living including preventative oral care (Registered Nursing.Org, 2024 ). The oral care plan should meet oral care standards and educate about various methods, safety measures, and the use of assistive devices to facilitate self-care hygiene.

Medicare

Consult QD

JUNE 16, 2023

Many laboratories have alternative options for low-cost or no-cost testing that do not involve a third-party sponsor and have financial assistance programs (based on a sliding income-based scale) and laboratory billing policies (such as no balance-billing for those with Medicaid). Front Neurol 2021; 12:663911. Suther S, Kiros G-E.

Pharmaceutical

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

(Lisa Bartels) During her weeklong stay at Rhonda’s House, which founder and executive director Todd Noack referred to as “a bed-and-breakfast facility for emotional distress,” Quicke made many breakthroughs, working on her self-esteem and gaining better coping skills. Some respites receive Medicaid funding.

Mental Health

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Nurses from around the country watched and spoke out, supported her, and shared similar issues about the environment of care that she worked in, the failure of organizations to support nurses after self-disclosure, and the lack of trust in non-punitive response to error. Nurse leaders ensure that the care environment is safe.

Self-Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Takeaways: The 1990 Federal Patient Self Determination Act requires that Medicare- and Medicaid-funded healthcare organizations follow state laws related to advance directives. Advance directives are legal documents that allow adults to record their wishes related to serious illness or end-of-life care.

Self-Care

American Nurse

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Early counseling and intervention in ambulatory care settings, via risk assessment screening for early detection, can help reduce modifiable ASCVD risks. An estimated 34 million Americans, age 18 years and older, have diabetes, most with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) as well as a high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). See Risk assessment tools.)

Health Literacy

American Nurse

JULY 3, 2024

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.

Self-Care

Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It is especially important for patients with complex or chronic conditions, multiple comorbidities, or transitions of care.

Care coordination

American Nurse

MAY 1, 2023

Takeaways: Four significant factors compromise care for Native American elders: healthcare disparities, historical trauma, healthcare shortages afflicting rural areas and reservations, and a lack of culturally appropriate care in long-term care facilities. population, Tribal nations require local, high-quality specialty care.

Long Term Care

Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a post-acute care provider, you need to prove that your organization meets the expected standard of care, safety, and other compliance and regulatory requirements. Quality of care and the environment of care that your organization provides are most important for surveyors. Quality care and optimal clinical outcomes.

Medicaid

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Many patients to whom nurses provide care have a chronic condition. Therefore, the nurse’s plan of care must be flexible to accommodate the changing presentation of the condition and how it is affected by aging, the environment (including nutrition), and whether there is the presence of other conditions. some cancers).

Mental Health

Relias

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Pronounced JAH-PIE-GO, the organization has worked to help low and middle-income countries advance maternal care since its founding in 1973. Jhpiego’s work with midwives abroad highlights differences among countries yet reveals commonalities applicable to maternal care both domestically and internationally.

Self-Care

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Expiration: 12/1/26 Sandra Long*, a 72-year-old woman, is admitted to the emergency department from a long-term care facility for fever, poor oral intake, new-onset confusion, foul-smelling urine, and incontinence. In the acute care setting, a clean-catch urinalysis sample is preferred for UTI diagnosis. See UTI risk factors.)

Best Practices

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to Deloitte, in addition to limiting self-actualization, these inequities generate unnecessary costs and financial waste—approximately $320 billion annually, which could increase to $1 trillion or more by 2040. Ensuring that nurses deliver equitable care is more than satisfying a mandatory education requirement. 2024; 19(2).

Medicaid

Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

Regular compliance audits help organizations provide the most efficient, effective patient care. Formerly, hospitals did not disclose the price of individual services to patients before they received care. Even providers administering care sometimes didn’t know exactly how much a procedure or service would cost.

Medicare

Relias

JULY 20, 2023

­The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule in August 2022 to improve maternal health outcomes and advance health equity — two of the Biden-Harris Administration’s key priorities. Ensuring that behavioral health and medical documentation are in the same system can help integrate and improve care.

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