MDedge |Internal Medicine Jodi Helmer Only 12% of the nurses providing patient care at hospitals and health clinics today are men. Although the percentage of nurses has increased — men made up just 2.7% of nurses in 1970 — nursing is still considered a “pink collar” profession, a female-dominated field. “We’ve made strides over the […]
Joseph Lanctot, FNP- MedPage Today Recently, Bloomberg published an article titled “The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners” by Caleb Melby, Polly Mosendz, and Noah Buhayar, which brings to the public’s attention the dismal state of education for APRNs. I would like to share my own story and that of several other APRNs who attended my
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Florida State University recently launched the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium By Hunter Boyce – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Artificial intelligence isn’t just creeping into the health care workspace; it’s also entering the classroom. Florida State University has launched the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, and it’s bringing a first-of-its kind nursing degree along
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Giles Bruce – Becker’s Health IT Health systems have begun having their nurses certified in virtual nursing and helping develop the standards. West Des Moines, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health became one of the first health systems to have certified virtual nurses on staff, when seven of its employees were among the first 40 people named Certified
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Mariah Taylor (Email) – Becker’s Clinical Leadership A study led by researchers at Boston-based Harvard Medical School found newly trained physicians with high board certification exam scores led to lower risk of patient deaths and hospital readmissions. The study, published May 6 in JAMA, analyzed 6,898 newly trained hospitalists who treated Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries during
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Giles Bruce – Becker’s Health IT Nearly a quarter of nurses are uncomfortable with artificial intelligence’s use in healthcare, according to an Oct. 1 McKinsey & Co. report. Here are nurses’ top 10 concerns about AI, per the management consultant’s joint survey with the American Nurses Foundation of 7,200 nurses: 1. Trust in accuracy: 61%
The certification aims to validate a practitioner’s competency in providing care in a virtual setting.
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“There are programs graduating nurse practitioners with no experience, and that’s incredibly challenging for them, for the hospitals and for the clinics they go into,”
Publish date: September 4, 2024 By Ronnie Cohen KFF Health News One of California’s two programs for training nurse-midwives has stopped admitting students while it revamps its curriculum to offer only doctoral degrees, a move that’s drawn howls of protest from alumni, health policy experts, and faculty who accuse the University of California of putting
Kelly Gooch – Becker’s Hospital Review Georgia could see the largest shortage of registered nurses by 2036, with an estimated 34,800 vacancies, according to a March report from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a federal agency of HHS. The finding comes as health systems nationwide brace for the “silver tsunami” of older Americans reaching
