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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

And we need to ensure that the nurses graduating are practice-ready because they are not. We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years. But we have to invest in our nurses.

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Partnering With Hospitals Can Boost SNF Referrals

Relias

Reduce readmissions The CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program reduces payments to acute care facilities with a high 30-day readmission rate. One approach that hospital officials are using to manage the readmission risk and avoid Medicare penalties is establishing a preferred SNF network.

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Top Healthcare Career Resources Blogs of 2021

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

When looking for a nursing job, especially your very first one, you should heed the words of my first nurse manager I ever had, a very wise and experienced woman. There are over 39,000 staffing offices for agency nurses in the U.S. Every type of encounter is assigned an RVU value by Medicare.

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UTI revisited: Optimizing best practices

American Nurse

Expiration: 12/1/26 Sandra Long*, a 72-year-old woman, is admitted to the emergency department from a long-term care facility for fever, poor oral intake, new-onset confusion, foul-smelling urine, and incontinence. Avoid using catheters to manage incontinence. Insert catheters only for appropriate indications.