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Essential Answers for Those Considering a Nursing Career

Scrubs

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment of registered nurses is projected to grow by 6% from 2021 to 2031, with an estimated 195,400 job openings each year. Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to work well under pressure are vital for patient safety and efficient care delivery.

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Unproven healthcare will bankrupt America

Sensible Medicine

It can take several years for the full safety profile of drugs to be known. For instance, CAR-T was given to myeloma patients in 2014, but we only learned it can cause Parkinsonism in 2021. I am not aware of any drug being tested in the frontline of myeloma that is not already on the US market for relapsed disease.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

The report lays out the many components of the virtual health ecosystem in three broad areas covering the continuum of care: Triage and intake, the front-door of routing patients to the most appropriate pathway for their symptoms.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety. By equipping NPs with data, resources, and case study examples, our goal is to help them recognize their exposures, reduce their risks, and improve patient outcomes.

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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

Health Populi

In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. The book tests the hypothesis that Compassion Matters. Medical Deserts. Health equity, and. Care settings (think: outside or away from the hospital bed or doctor’s office).

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An Important Strategy for a High Reliability Organization: Effective Nurse Shift Timetables

DropStat

Veteran’s Health Administration The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) announced its efforts in patient safety from the 1990s onwards. By 2021, sepsis-associated inpatient deaths decreased from 29.7% which has been tested and validated in 52 leading U.S. which has been tested and validated in 52 leading U.S.

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Why prioritize value-based care over volume?

Health Prime

According to a 2021 FPM Journal article , as healthcare costs spiral higher, more payers are looking to replace the fee-for-service (FFS) system with value-based payment models focused on quality (rather than quantity) care. Gone are the days when the number of patient visits determined a physician’s success.