By: Jakob Emerson Becker’s Hospital Review Luigi Mangione has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four charges for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in late 2024, NBC News reported April 17. The indictment includes two counts of stalking, one count of murder through use of a firearm and a firearms offense […]
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By: Dennis Thompson HealthDay News Key Takeaways CPR will save lives regardless of who performs it Heart attack victims given CPR had the same short-term risk of death if receiving it from a bystander or a paramedic Their long-term risk of death was similar as well It doesn’t matter if CPR is performed by a
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Amid a nationwide nursing shortage, a November 2024 Health Resources and Services Administration nurse workforce projection estimated that the shortages will be felt until 2037. By: Madeline Ashley Becker’s Clinical Leadership The HRSA projection also found that North Carolina has one of the largest nursing shortfalls projected, at 22% by 2037. To combat this, Durham,
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Mariah Taylor (Email) – Becker’s Clinical Leadership It’s well known that a “silver tsunami” is on the horizon with millions of adults turning 65 each year — but the additional compounding impact of nurse retirements on systems is often overlooked. “I don’t think we fully realize the tsunami that’s coming in less than five years,”
By Lorie Brown RN, MN, JD EmpoweredNurses.org Let’s be honest — not every day is a Florence Nightingale moment. Sometimes, it’s a patient yelling at you for something out of your control. Sometimes, it’s working short-staffed for the fifth shift in a row. Sometimes, it’s losing a patient — and having to walk into the
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Kayt Sukel MedScape News Late last year, the Health Resources and Services Administration projected a shortage of nearly 190,000 physicians across specialties by 2037. They noted, however, that we could mitigate the lack of doctors in some specialties by increasing the use of physician associates (PAs), especially with new and pending legislation expanding PAs’ scope
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By: Kristin Kuchno Becker’s Hospital Review Incivility among U.S. employees rose 21.5% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, according to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Civility Index. SHRM surveyed 1,587 U.S. workers between Jan. 22 and Jan. 30. The Q1 2025 Civility Index score of 48.8 marks
— Study finds suicide dropped by up to 25% with screening, safety plans, and support by Associated Press (David Coates/Detroit News via AP) Healthcare systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning, and mental health counseling, a new study suggests, an important finding as the U.S. confronts its 11th leading cause of death. The
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin Business Daily News The healthcare sector has overtaken retail as the largest industry by employment in the United States, according to a report published this month by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Jobs and wages in healthcare rose almost twice as fast as those in other industries between 1980 and
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By Kerri Miller Conexiant New research revealed that night work and sleep debt are associated with higher rates of infections among nurses. Sleep debt showed a strong dose-dependent relationship with multiple infection types. Researchers from the Norwegian Competence Center for Sleep Disorders and the University of Bergen analyzed data from 1,335 active Norwegian nurses to
