Analysis | By G Hatfield | KEY TAKEAWAYS According to the WHO report, there are 29.8 million nurses globally, but the distribution and density of those nurses around the world is extremely unequitable and hides a shortage of 5.8 million nurses. Many of the competency standards and APN regulations are different per country, which can […]
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Lorie Brown RN, JD EmpoweredNurses.org In our quest to address the nursing shortage, innovative solutions are essential. However, we must tread carefully when these solutions involve our youth. The recent case of Elliana Tenenbaum, who became a registered nurse at 16, and Indiana’s legislation to allow LPN training in high school, prompt a critical examination
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What if you are one of the few employees who have chosen to stay remote? How do you stay relevant, engaged, and productive? As offices around the world reopen, myriad organizations are planning for a hybrid workplace. Some employees will head back to the office, while others will work remotely, and still others will combine
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Giles Bruce – Becker’s Health IT While CMS allows health systems to apply for waivers to be reimbursed for hospital-at-home care not all state Medicaid programs cover the care model. These states reimburse for “hospital at home” as of May 7, according to the State Campaign for Hospital at Home: — Arizona — Arkansas —
By: Paige Twenter Becker’s Hospital Review The Texas House of Representatives approved a bill on May 22 that seeks to prevent healthcare providers from changing a patient’s sex in medical records, outside of some exceptions, by levying fines of up to $25,000 per incident. If passed, the bill would require EHRs to list “an individual’s
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Cigna Healthcare® has sponsored and provided editorial input on this article. Becker’s Hospital Review Community-focused well-being initiatives are a critical component of the value that hospitals and health systems provide to the populations they serve. This was the major theme of a roundtable at Becker’s Hospital Review 15th Annual Meeting, facilitated by two Cigna Healthcare
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By: Mariah Taylor Becket’s Clinical Leadership The number of times a patient’s address changes in the electronic health record is associated with homelessness and diagnoses, a Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine study found. The study, published in PLOS One, analyzed EHR patient data from 11 healthcare sites between 2018 and 2024 in the Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data
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In collaboration with Concierge Choice Physicians Could a care model that has been around for years, but has only recently begun to draw attention from large health systems, be a solution to many of the challenges that healthcare organizations face — including physician retention, patient experience and financial sustainability? As with anything in healthcare, there
— An excerpt from Avorn’s book, Rethinking Medications by Jerry Avorn, MD May 22, 2025 • 5 min read Ideally, the approval of a new drug should be exclusively the province of science, but for a more than half-trillion-dollar-a-year industry, it couldn’t possibly remain so. The same libertarian posture of the earlier twentieth century —
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With 323 medicines in short supply, U.S. drug shortages have risen to their highest level since the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists began tracking in 2001. Why it matters: This high-water mark should energize efforts in Congress and federal agencies to address the broken market around what are often critical generic drugs, the organization says.
