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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Feds, states take up nurse staffing The past four years have been especially tough on nurses, of course.

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

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Department of Agriculture Rural Development, which it will use to build out its virtual inpatient nursing program. "When we find innovative ways to build a work environment where nurses are engaged and working to the top of their skill set, our patients benefit too," she added.

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Health IT Trends that Deserve More Attention

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These new ideas and technologies are only successful, however, if enough people collectively take notice and talk about it in order to make it trend. This then results in certain topics being neglected – regardless of their quality and how much you would personally like to see them trend. FHIR, HL7).

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Telehealth can increase nurse workloads, study shows

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A study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research found that patients using at-home monitoring systems for blood glucose and blood pressure levels received almost twice as many "nursing activities" as patients who received usual care. THE LARGER TREND. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Featured Health IT Job: Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California.

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Rapid telehealth rollout was beneficial for nursing homes, but had downsides too

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As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. The aim, they said, was to examine the consequences of the rapid telehealth rollout in nursing homes. THE LARGER TREND. Saved organizational resources.

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Nurse unions slam Kaiser's advanced care at home strategy

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National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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