Researchers estimate nearly 17 million undiagnosed cases in the U.S. by mid-July 2020. In a new study, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers report that the prevalence of COVID-19 in the United States during spring and summer of 2020 far […]
Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPIs) – long a major healthcare problem for hospitalized patients – have the potential to increase with the increasing amount of patients requiring ICU care due to COVID-19. Regardless of primary diagnosis, when immobility, pressure, friction,
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Syracuse, NY – State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras announced that SUNY System Administration approved an annual pay and benefits increase for the 1,648 teaching and research center nurses at Upstate Medical University. Recognizing the tireless commitment of the nursing
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Though there are thousands of different healthcare jobs and hundreds of differing nursing career paths, few are more rewarding than those that lead to interactions with newborns. Working with parents who are thrilled to expand their family and excited to
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The current Medicare reimbursement policy for nurse practitioners (NPs) allows NPs to directly bill Medicare for services that they perform, but they are reimbursed at only 85% of the physician rate. A growing number of states are granting full practice
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The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly one of the most trying and difficult things that many of us have had to endure in our lives. Nearly everything we care about was disrupted from child care to going to work to visiting
New York nurses are going to play a key role in forming and implementing safe hospital staffing policies. On June 18, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law that will require all general hospitals in the state to establish clinical staffing
It’s Law, Now: NY Gives Frontline Nurses Voice in Safe Staffing Policies Read More »
Nurse of the Week Kashon Holmes, RN is also our candidate for Father of the Year. Holmes had long dreamt of becoming a nurse. He had done his homework early and was keenly aware that school would require an intense
Often, nurses are referred to as heroes for the amazing work they do. Now, a new television special will bring them to the living rooms of families across the nation. Premiering on June 24 at 8 p.m. ET on Discovery
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Since the first diagnosed case of COVID-19 in the United Stateson Jan. 20, 2020, news about infection rates, deaths and pandemic-driven economic hardships has been part of our daily lives. But there is a knowledge gap in how COVID-19 has affected
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