February 21, 2024
Nursing
February 20, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Is Making Critical Health Care Decisions. The Sheriff Is MIA.
(Politico) – Doctors are already using unregulated artificial intelligence tools such as note-taking virtual assistants and predictive software that helps them diagnose and treat diseases. Government has slow-walked regulation of the fast-moving technology because the funding and staffing challenges facing … Read More
February 16, 2024
Health Care Workers Say Patient Discrimination Is a Big Problem
(Axios) – More than half of health care workers say racial discrimination against patients is a major problem or crisis, while nearly half report seeing it happen in their own workplaces, according to a large national survey. Why it matters: … Read More
February 7, 2024
Doctors Face Huge Stigma About Mental Illness. Now There’s an Effort to Change That
(NPR) – Physicians often fear they could be shamed or penalized — or could even lose their jobs — for disclosing details about their mental health to licensing boards and employers. Now, there’s a concerted effort to reduce that stigma. … Read More
January 31, 2024
The Nurse Practitioner Will See You Now
(Vox) – Americans seeking health care are increasingly likely to get it from people who aren’t doctors. The reasons are partly related to supply and demand: A nationwide physician shortage has been mounting for decades. And while the pipeline for … Read More
January 30, 2024
Where Are the Nation’s Primary Care Providers? It’s Not an Easy Answer
(KFF Health News) – It’s hard to know if any policy is working given that the data the federal government collects on primary care shortage areas has been flawed for a long time. One of the biggest gaps is that … Read More
January 29, 2024
Health Care Workers Kept Leaving the Industry After Pandemic: Study
(Axios) – There’s been a “substantial and persistent” increase in health care workers leaving the industry since the pandemic, as staff who stayed on during the worst of COVID-19 leave for new opportunities in a robust jobs market, according to … Read More
January 24, 2024
Ethics Ratings of Nearly All Professions Down in U.S.
(Gallup) – Americans’ ratings of nearly all 23 professions measured in Gallup’s 2023 Honesty and Ethics poll are lower than they have been in recent years. Only one profession — labor union leaders — has not declined since 2019, yet … Read More
January 23, 2024
What’s Indoor Air Quality Like in Long-Term Care Facilities During Wildfires? Worse Than You’d Think
(KFF Health News) – “An astonishing amount of smoke gets inside these facilities,” said Luke Montrose, an environmental toxicologist and researcher at Colorado State University. Data from monitors Montrose installed in four Idaho long-term care facilities in 2020 showed that … Read More
January 18, 2024
Hospitals Are Desperate for Workers. They Might Find Them in High Schools.
(New York Times) – Public school students in Boston will have a direct route to guaranteed jobs with the city’s largest employer, the Mass General Brigham health system, via a new initiative that will pair high schools eager to expand … Read More
January 17, 2024
Claire M. Fagin, Powerful Advocate for Nurses and Nursing, Dies at 97
(New York Times) – Among other achievements, Dr. Fagin was widely credited with overturning the common practice of strictly limiting parental visits to hospitalized children. She was inspired (and infuriated) by what happened in the early 1960s when she and … Read More
January 17, 2024
Senate to Examine Walkaway Deaths in Assisted-Living Facilities
(Washington Post) – The chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging is launching a review of safety lapses in the assisted-living industry, saying an investigation by The Washington Post into the deaths of dementia-care residents who have wandered from … Read More
January 15, 2024
The Nursing Staffing Crisis Has Hit One Role Particularly Hard: the Nurse Manager
(STAT News) – Though the Covid-19 pandemic brought heightened attention to nurses overall, a unique nursing role has been long overlooked and, for the public, largely misunderstood: that of the nurse manager. Like nurses in other roles, nurse managers are … Read More
January 9, 2024
Patients Are Hurt by Diagnostic Errors More Often Than You Think
(Axios) – Hospitalized patients who died or were transferred to the ICU during their stay experienced a diagnostic error nearly a quarter of the time — and in most cases the error caused harm, according to a new study that’s … Read More
January 4, 2024
After Loved Ones’ Long-Awaited Organ Transplants, Caregivers Often Find Challenges Are Just Beginning
(STAT News) – “Transplantation is not the end story. You don’t stop what you do as caregiver or care partners the day after a transplant,” said Copperman, who serves as vice president of the nonprofit Transplant Recipients International Organization. “It … Read More
January 3, 2024
A New Edition of Nursing Ethics Is Now Available
January 2, 2024
Nurses Left Patient to Die at Penn Medical Hospital. State Inspectors Issued a Severe Warning
(Philadelphia Inquirer via MSN) – The patient slumped over a walker, then slid down the wall and collapsed, while two nurses and two technicians at a Penn Medicine hospital stood over the motionless patient. Unsure what to do, the staff … Read More
December 28, 2023
What Is Hospice Care? 6 Myths About This End-of-Life Option
(NPR) – Many assumed the decision meant that Carter wouldn’t be alive for much longer. But contrary to popular belief, hospice care isn’t necessarily only for people who have just a few days to live, nor does it mean giving … Read More
December 18, 2023
Dozens of Elderly People Across US Died after Leaving Care Facilities Unchecked
(The Guardian) – Dozens of elderly people have died across the US in the last five years after walking away unchecked from assisted-living or supposedly secure dementia or memory care facilities, a national study has found, highlighting a lack of … Read More
December 12, 2023
A New Edition of Nursing Ethics Is Now Available
December 7, 2023
A Nurse’s Fatal Last Visit to Patient’s Home Renews Calls for Better Safety Measures
(Associated Press) – The killing of a Connecticut nurse making a house call in October was a nightmare come true for an industry gripped by the fear of violence. Already stressed out by staffing shortages and mounting caseloads, heath care … Read More
December 5, 2023
Psych Nurses Sound the Alarm on Patient Violence at Pediatric Hospital
(MedPage Today) – Nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital demanded the hospital intervene after police were twice called to the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Unit (PBMU) over violent incidents during a 2-week period in November, according to the Washington State Nurses … Read More
December 4, 2023
Desperate Families Search for Affordable Home Care
(New York Times) – Frank Lee’s search for trustworthy home health aides — an experience that millions of American families face — has often been exhausting and infuriating, but he has persisted. He didn’t entirely trust the care his wife … Read More
December 1, 2023
New Doctors Just Aren’t That Interested in Geriatrics
(Axios) – Doctors specializing in care for older adults are increasingly in demand as the country ages — but America’s newer physicians aren’t that interested in geriatric medicine. Driving the news: Less than half of 348 post-residency fellowships for geriatric … Read More
November 27, 2023
Hospices Can’t Handle the Growing Number of Patients Who Need Wound Care
(STAT News) – Today, our nation faces a meteoric rise in metabolic disease that is showing up in end-of-life care in a devastating way. The increasing prevalence of metabolic disease combined with an aging population and a critical shortage of … Read More
