Our healthcare system is struggling under the twin burdens of staffing shortages and the ongoing COVID pandemic. We’ve never faced a greater need for competent, caring healthcare providers. If you’re thinking about becoming a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant […]
Early on the morning of January 5, 2022, Kaitlin Rogers, BSN, RN was driving to work on route 3 when she came upon a sea of brake lights just before the Hackensack River Bridge. A “horrible pile-up” It was barely
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New York is rolling out a record-busting $10 billion multi-year investment to rebuild, grow, and strengthen the state’s healthcare workforce. This week, NY Governor Kathy Hochul said “We need to not just say we owe [healthcare workers] a debt of
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Planning for the future can be difficult when you’re just starting your career. Especially with 70% of nurses experiencing burnout as of January 2021, financial planning and goal setting probably isn’t a top priority. However, an important part of achieving
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Demanding that the hospital industry invests in safe staffing and that President Biden fulfills his campaign promise to protect nurses and prioritize public health, National Nurses United (NNU), the largest RN union in the United States, is calling for nurses
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As emergency changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were made permanent, the past year saw significant progress toward increased independent practice authority for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), according to the Nurse Practitioner’s 34th Annual Legislative Update. “Relaxation of
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A new study shows that the labor market for the nursing workforce tightened throughout the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a period marked by falling employment and rising wages across the health care industry. The paper, “Nurse
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As the nurse staffing shortage in the Tampa Bay area is nearing crisis proportions, Florida nurse educators, hospital administrators, and health care officials met to confront the problem and plot a course of action. A spring 2021 survey by the
As 2021 nears its end and we prepare for pinning and graduation ceremonies, our Nurse of the Week is a classic American story about starting from nothing, working hard (and smart), and refusing to give up the pursuit of your
One in five individuals avoided healthcare during lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic, often for potentially urgent symptoms, according to a new study publishing November 23rd in PLOS Medicine by Silvan Licher of Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and
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