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Mental Health Nursing Fast-Growing Field With Diverse Possibilities

Nurse.com

In 2019, PMHNPs provided nearly one-third of mental health prescriber visits of Medicare patients, found a recent study. Nearly half of current PMH-RNs report a plan to retire over the next 10 years,” says Oleck. The mental health system is increasingly relying on PMHNPs.

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Can a Nurse or Nurse Practitioner Be a 1099 Employee?

Empowered Nurses

Covering benefits like health insurance and retirement savings. Under Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), signed into law in 2019, the state tightened the rules on who can qualify as an independent contractor. However, this comes with increased responsibilities, including: Paying self-employment taxes. Purchasing your own liability insurance.

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Telephone Triage: A Necessity to Manage Pediatric Patient Flow

American Nurse

At that time, nurses would talk with patients over the phone to discuss home care for illnesses, manage medication refills, and discuss lab results (Mataxen & Webb, 2019). Patients and caregivers have reported feeling a sense of support and reassurance after receiving telephone advice from a triage nurse (Mataxen & Webb, 2019).

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Budget ’24: What’s in it for nurses and midwives?

Nursing Review

"An unleashed nursing workforce will provide quality care where it is most needed, particularly in rural, remote, and regional communities where other health professionals are leaving, retiring, or are in short supply." Four-year completion rates [for students commencing in 2019] showed nursing fell from 64.3 per cent to 54.1

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

Scrubs

A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. One of the homes below the minimum was Heritage Hills Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Smithfield, where Pernorio, president of the Rhode Island Alliance for Retired Americans, went last October after a stint in a hospital.

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived

American Nurse

A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. One of the homes below the minimum was Heritage Hills Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Smithfield, where Pernorio, president of the Rhode Island Alliance for Retired Americans, went last October after a stint in a hospital.

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