“Lutheran Health Network is taking action to develop, recruit and retain qualified nurses, and has recognized the need to approach nursing care in new and innovative ways in response to nursing shortages in our region and around the country,” Sarah Knisely-King, chief nursing officer at Lutheran Hospital, said. The Lutheran Health Network in partnership with Jersey College created an onsite
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The head of the Winnipeg’shealth authoritysays the health-care system isbeginning to see the benefits ofprovincial financial incentives announced months agoto help address Manitoba nursing shortages. The province announced $200-million last fall to hire 2,000 more health-care workers, provide a range of incentives to keep workers in Manitoba and toattract others to work in the province. Health Minister Audrey Gordon said
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (UPI) —Frontline nurses faced understaffing, burnout and underappreciation, driving thousands to quit their jobs during the pandemic, several experts told members of Congress on Thursday. In fact, a McKinsey Global Institute report in May found that by 2025, the United States could be short up to 450,000 nurses. “Nurses are often considered the oxygen of any healthcare setting, so
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Thenurse practitioner position is the number one best healthcare job in 2023for several reasons. There have been nursing shortages in the U.S. before, but this one is different in many ways. I have already seen nursing shortages, first in the late 1980s and again at the beginning of this decade. Experts say the current nursing shortage is culminating in the
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Nurses were a hot topic on medical Twitter this past weekend when the ophthalmologist and comedian known as Dr. Glaucomflecken posed a hypothetical scenario to healthcare professionals: What would you ask your hospital’s chief medical officer for if you could request one change that they would have to make (besides more money for yourself)? “Can I ask for more money for the
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A Scottish health board has been fined £180,000 over the death of a vulnerable patient who sustained fatal head injuries in hospital “due to a lack of nursing staff”. During a hearing at Inverness Sheriff Court on 31 January 2023, NHS Highland pled guilty to a breach of health and safety regulations in relation to the case. Ward staff made
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“WRHA is committed to eliminating mandatory overtime, which is only used as a last resort when all other options have been exhausted to balance patient and staff safety,” said a spokesperson, noting WRHAis focused on reducing the existing nurse vacancy rate and lowering the number of overall overtime hours. “Those options include voluntary overtime, asking part-time nurses to pick up
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When Nikka Reyes moved to Winnipeg from the Philippines in 2015, she was hoping for a promising future working as a registered hemodialysis nurse. Eight years later, she’s a Canadian citizen, but the 34-year-old is living and working in Tennessee because she was unable to get accredited in Manitoba. She also wonders why provincial governments are going on recruiting trips
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Every decision by the government (or anyone else) comes with costs. Making good decisions is a matter of looking squarely at all the costs and benefits and choosing wisely in their light. One lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is the importance and difficulty of accountingfor all the costs of agency actions in emergency situations. The ongoing vaccine mandate forhealth care workersis a
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When healthcare workers burn out and quit their jobs, the stakes are higher than when the Great Resignation hits some other industries.Healthcare’s Great Resignationcreates shortages in the vital healthcare workforce that can put patients at risk. New researchreleased today from OnePoll and connectRN illustrates just how harmful those resignations—and the staffing shortages they cause—can be. In a survey conducted with
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