While the peak of the COVID pandemic may be behind us, the United States health care industry continues to deal with unprecedented staffing shortages, particularly when it comes to nurses. Even a cursory Google search brings up a multitude of stories and reports on this growing shortage, including here in New York. For example, one 2022 report suggests the total
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As a nurse for 38 years, I have had the privilege to care for patients in a variety of roles including as a nurse on the front line at a neonatal intensive care unit in Las Vegas. From there, I now have the honor of leading nurse and physician collaboration and service initiatives like patient experience, nursing recruitment, retention and
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The issues that result from a mismatch of supply and demand are easier to understand than they can be to resolve, and particularly dismaying when they involve a shortage of providers for health care and a growing number of those who need that care, whether in hospital, nursing facility or home settings. The problem is no more plainly stated than
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The Biden Administration recently announced its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations on May 11, 2023, over three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. While there have certainly been significant changes over the past three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there will also be significant changes when the public health emergency ends. For example,
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The Washington state senate passed a bill to address the health care staffing shortage by mitigating unmanageablepatient loads and worker burnout. Senate Bill 5236 sponsored by Senator June Robinson (D-Everett) will require hospitals to submit staffing plans to the Department of Health. The expected staff-to-patient staffing standards would be developed by a hospital’s designated nurse staffing committee, composed of 50% nursing
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Full staffing is central to patient experience, and patient experience is central to the health care system’s future, executives said. Read more.
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The University of Waikato has doubled its intake of nursing students for 2023 in the face of severe staff shortages in the health workforce, welcoming a record 211 new students into its Registered Nursing programmes. The acting dean of Te Huataki Waiora School of Health, Dr Jo Lane, says: “We’re really pleased to welcome so many high-quality nursing students to
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Northern Arizona University (NAU) recently received a $6.4 million grant as part of an Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) initiative meant to address Arizona’s nursing shortage. The university was one of five institutions across the state to receive grant money on Jan. 31, which together totals $43.1 million. Each university will be using the grant to fund scholarships in
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Nursing homes are facing increasingly severe financial disruption, with revenue per patient day down more than 14% from pre-Covid levels as of 2021. That’s according to analysts at Marcum LLP, a national accounting and advisory services firm, which on Tuesday released its 2023 annual nursing home statistical analysis. In addition to painting a picture of financial challenges, the report was
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In response to nationwide nursing shortages, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (NFMMC) has announced its “success in both adopting a U.S./Canadian recruitment pipeline and partnering withGlobal Healthcare Resources Inc., attracting over 20 registered nurses from Canada, the Philippines and beyond, as part of its new international nursing program.” “Across the country, hospitals and health systems have struggled to fill open
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