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‘High-quality care is not just about patients but about those delivering care’

Nursing Times

This has recently been updated this year and renamed the Experience of Care Improvement Framework. This new version of the framework offers a more comprehensive tool for trusts to self-assess how well they are delivering positive care experiences.

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Virtual Nursing Will Be Nonnegotiable: Here's How CNOs Can Prepare

Health Leaders | Nursing

During a time when nursing shortages are growing, and patient acuity is greater, it's essential that unnecessary tasks and high workload burdens be removed from nurses so they can spend their time caring for patients. Other metrics can include nurse engagement, patient experience, and care quality metrics.

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Honey, Sweetie, Dearie: The Perils of Elderspeak

Health Leaders | Nursing

Her father was then 92, a retired county planner and a World War II veteran; macular degeneration had reduced the quality of his vision, and he used a walker to get around, but he remained cognitively sharp. An aide who was trying to induce him to do something Smith no longer remembers exactly what said, "Let me help you, sweetheart." "He

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How Nurse Practitioners Are Filling Gaps in Primary Care

Post University

As the existing workforce continues to age into retirement and burn out from increased workloads — and as aspiring physicians choose primary care specializations less frequently — the gap will continue to widen. Projections from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predict a gap of 86,000 physicians by 2036.

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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Longer lifespans extend the period when patients need care, intensifying demands on an already strained healthcare system and worsening the nursing shortage. In 2022, the median age of employed registered nurses was 46 years old, and more than 25% of all RNs say they will retire or leave the nursing field within the next five years.

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Dual Threats from Trump and GOP Imperil Nursing Homes and Their Foreign-Born Workers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Without them, the retired Episcopal priest said, "I would be, and my building would be, desolate." Goodwin Living, a faith-based nonprofit, runs three retirement communities in northern Virginia for people who live independently, need a little assistance each day, have memory issues, or require the availability of around-the-clock nurses.

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

"It's an evolving landscape," says Mallozzi, noting the program is separate from Jefferson's 10-year-old telesitting program, which focuses solely on monitoring and safety care and has shown value in reducing patient falls. They're getting tired, and many are considering retirement," she says. "We