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Better Nurse Staffing Linked to Fewer C-Sections

Daily Nurse

. “While nurses intuitively know that having enough nurses to provide the attentive care that mothers and babies need and deserve improves outcomes, research has been minimal in linking maternity nurse staffing and patient outcomes,” said Kathleen Rice Simpson, a perinatal clinical nurse specialist at Mercy Hospital St.

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The End of the Public Health Emergency and What this Means for Nurses

Capitol Beat

After three years of regulatory flexibility in many areas of healthcare delivery, implications of the PHE unwinding for patients, nurses, and communities will be significant. Much of Medicare is in statute, and as a result the Administration has limited authority to expand telehealth absent Congressional action. 42 CFR §482.12(c)(1)–(2)

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Improving Care and Access to Nurses (ICAN) Act: Legislators Want to Hear from Nurses 

Daily Nurse

NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. NPs provide high-quality healthcare to Medicare and Medicaid patients across all geographic areas and healthcare settings. The ICAN Act is improving care and access to nursing.

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Hospitals with the Most Vulnerable Maternity Patients Understaffed with Nurses

Minority Nurse

This inequity in reimbursement creates a fiscal challenge in hospitals with a high percentage of maternity patients insured by Medicaid,” says Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN, a perinatal clinical nurse specialist in St. Louis, MO, and the study’s lead author.

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COVID-19 skin manifestations

American Nurse

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services won’t reimburse hospitals for the care of this condition and may apply a value-based penalty fee. Lisa Goode is a medical–surgical clinical nurse specialist in the Department of Defense in Kentucky.

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2022 Congressional Spending Bill Included Several ANA-Supported Nursing Provisions to Cap off the Year

Capitol Beat

A compromise was reached to give five years prescribing authority for Certified Nurse-Midwives, Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Nurse Anesthetists who take additional continuing education in the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. Annual Medicare Payment Changes Medicare providers were faced with 8.5%

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New Zealand Nurse in Australia – Jacob

The Nurse Break

Where in Australia/clinical area are you now working? I am currently based in Melbourne working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist within a metropolitan ICU, I joined this unit in 2021 as a Critical Care Registered Nurse and was promoted to CNS in 2022. How did you get a job initially in Australia?