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December 1, 2014 - This information will also help you learn more about how travel nurses can help your organization balance scheduling and budget challenges while continuing to deliver great patient care.
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November 25, 2014 - New jobs ranging from health coach to chief experience officer are emerging in healthcare in response to healthcare reform and other pressures, according to the results of a just-released survey.
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November 25, 2014 - A pioneer in the field of medical staffing and home healthcare, Nursefinders hit the big 4-0 this year. Founded by Larry Carr in 1974 in Arlington, Texas, Nursefinders has evolved into one of the largest and most respected medical staffing and home healthcare companies in the country. In 1978, Carr...
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November 25, 2014 - A confluence of more patients seeking health services and the noninvasive nature of ultrasound imaging has led to rising demand for the healthcare profession of diagnostic medical sonographers, which is likely to grow stronger in the years ahead. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows sonographers ...
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November 25, 2014 - Essential data and information on healthcare workforce employment with topics such as healthcare hiring, physical therapist opportunities and medical school enrollment information.
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October 17, 2014 - Ebola has recently made its presence known in the United States—especially in Texas, where the first patient death occurred on American soil on Oct. 8 and two nurses have been diagnosed with Ebola virus disease (EVD) this week.
Both nurses wore personal protective equipment (PPE) while treating ...
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September 27, 2014 - Demand for healthcare services is on the rise, and that’s corresponded to sharply rising demand for healthcare workers. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), about 1.1 million new registered nurses will be needed by 2022 to fill jobs and replace retirees. At AMN Healthcare, this demand...
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September 25, 2014 - Who will meet your community’s need for primary care in the future: a doctor, nurse practitioner, physician assistant … or someone else?
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September 25, 2014 - A recent study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s RN Work Project found that registered nurses report higher job satisfaction when they’re happy with their work environment.
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September 25, 2014 - Healthcare employment continues to make solid gains month after month.
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September 25, 2014 - While growing demand for physicians is leading to shortages, the supply of many specialties is growing, though maybe not enough to relieve demand.
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August 11, 2014 - Team-based care is spreading throughout our nation’s health system, incentivized by healthcare reform and pressures for improved cost containment, patient safety, quality of care and outcomes. But teamwork cannot just be a buzzword, nor is it simply grouping together physicians, nurses and allied pr...
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August 11, 2014 - Hospitals were not only not hiring in July - they were actually shedding jobs.
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August 8, 2014 - Long patient wait times and crowding remain a vexing problem as a seemingly ever-increasing number of patients seek care in hospital emergency departments. Solutions vary depending on the department and the cause of the bottlenecks.
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July 8, 2014 - The Veterans Affairs scandal has roiled Washington, D.C., and the nation, focusing on long wait times for medical care at VA hospitals and clinics and the risks veterans face due to delayed access to healthcare. But the same problem affects civilian health systems, too, in many states and communitie...
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July 7, 2014 - In response to pressures to control costs, improve quality and expand coverage, momentum to expedite the use of telehealth is continuing to pick up on a state and national level.
One prominent example is newly crafted legislation that would allow doctors to apply for interstate licensure, effecti...
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June 28, 2014 - The need for care continues to grow in rural areas of the country, and it’s an ongoing challenge to recruit enough healthcare professionals to provide care in rural hospitals and clinics.
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June 20, 2014 - At a time of financial uncertainty for hospitals, Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas has raised its hourly minimum wage to $10.25 for entry-level workers, paying for it with funds set aside for executive bonuses. Many see this action as setting a new standard in the fair wage debate rag...
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June 16, 2014 - Although initially many people expected hospitals to dominate the accountable care space, an analysis of data from the first national survey of public and private ACOs found physicians are holding strong leadership and ownership roles in more than three-quarters of accountable care organizations.
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June 4, 2014 - Freestanding children’s hospitals provide better nurse staffing coverage and more support services and are at a lower risk for missing changes in patient conditions than pediatric hospitals within a hospital or pediatric units, according to a new study published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality...
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May 30, 2014 - VA Secretary Shinseki has resigned, Pres. Obama announced May 30, amid allegations that Phoenix VA wait times led to veterans’ deaths.
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May 28, 2014 - It looks like eligible hospitals and providers may get a little help in meeting meaningful use requirements this year.
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May 23, 2014 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reports hospitals are outpacing other healthcare settings in improvements to quality of care. Three quarters of hospital quality measures are showing improvement, compared with 60 percent for home health and nursing home care, and about half for ...
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May 22, 2014 - Who’s reading your organization’s Twitter feed or posting on your Facebook page? More importantly, who do you want to be interacting with your organization through social media platforms?
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May 19, 2014 - Access to healthcare through the emergency department presents an avenue for people not necessarily suffering from the life- and limb-threatening conditions such departments are designed to address. Overuse leads to needless expense, crowding and reductions in access to those in true need. Several e...
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May 14, 2014 - National Hospital Week 2014 in underway, with the theme Compassion, Innovation, Dedication: The Commitment Continues.
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May 8, 2014 - Telemedicine continues to grow as a viable method of delivering healthcare services to patients, particularly those living in underserved areas. Yet inconsistent state laws and regulations for caring for a person in a different location than the provider have been lacking, hampering further deployme...
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May 5, 2014 - Between 700,000 and 1 million patient falls occur annually in U.S. hospitals. These numbers represent a costly problem that can be devastating for patients and expensive for the healthcare system. And research suggests that at least one-third of these cases might be prevented.
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April 30, 2014 - Despite progress in recent years, health disparities associated with certain characteristics such as race, ethnicity, income and geography remain a very real and pervasive problem.
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April 28, 2014 - An accurate diagnosis remains key to starting timely and appropriate treatment, yet a new study estimates each year about 12 million adults in the United States could experience an outpatient diagnostic error.
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April 21, 2014 - More medical practices are incorporating nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other non-physician providers to extend their ability to deliver more care to more patients, according to a new analysis from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
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April 21, 2014 - Determining the optimal nurse staffing levels to avoid complications and improve patient outcomes has remained an elusive goal for many hospitals. Now, one of the industry’s chief quality improvement programs can generate staffing level correlations with patient outcomes in more clinical areas, incl...
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April 4, 2014 - The Institute of Medicine called for transforming the nursing work environment to keep patients safe in 2004. Just how much better is the workplace today? According to a recent report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, gains have been made but more work is needed.
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April 3, 2014 - April is National Donate Life Month, when hospitals and others celebrate the life-saving gift of organ donation and encourage Americans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors.
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April 1, 2014 - The vast majority of patients who enter a hospital are experiencing physical pain and/or disability. While hospitals and their staff excel at addressing physical ailments a patient might experience, a patient’s experience of suffering often expands significantly beyond physical discomforts or impair...
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March 28, 2014 - At a time where consumers readily check ratings and reviews about the vacuum they are thinking of purchasing or the restaurant they are considering dining in, it’s not surprising they also are beginning to peruse physician and hospital ratings and consumer reviews.
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March 27, 2014 - A growing number of states are removing restrictions that limit a nurse practitioner’s ability to practice.
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March 25, 2014 - While Pres. Obama’s proposed federal budget includes many provisions favorable to the healthcare workforce, it continues the downward pressure on healthcare costs, which could become problematic for people working in the industry.
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March 17, 2014 - AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the innovator in healthcare workforce solutions and largest provider of staffing services in the nation, announced today it has made a strategic investment in PipelineRx, a leading clinical telepharmacy company.
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March 17, 2014 - Despite all of the interventions designed to reduce adverse surgical events, only a few truly make a difference in decreasing patient harm, according to a systematic review.
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March 15, 2014 - An older adult arrives at an acute-care hospital frail and in need of care. What happens next? Long gone are the old days when he would be admitted. In these times, he’s much more likely put on observation status--an action that will probably raise his out-of-pocket costs, affect reimbursements and ...
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March 15, 2014 - Approximately 25 percent of about 1,000 randomized clinical trials initiated between 2000 and 2003 were discontinued, with the most common reason cited being poor recruitment of volunteers; and less than half of these trials reported the discontinuation to a research ethics committee, or were ever p...
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March 6, 2014 - In a letter dated February 28, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, were joined by 18 colleagues in urging Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to reconsider changes proposed for the Medicare Part D pr...
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March 3, 2014 - Ethical conflicts are pervasive in today’s healthcare settings, where organizations are trying to do more with less and medical advances and life-extending treatments often cause suffering. When unable to do what they consider the correct action, clinicians--nurses and other healthcare providers--ma...
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February 26, 2014 - European hospitals with better nurse staffing and more nurses with bachelor’s degrees enjoyed lower patient mortality rates after common surgeries, according to the latest study from Linda H. Aiken and colleagues that published in The Lancet this week.
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February 18, 2014 - Emergency departments dedicated to caring for older adults: are they a fad or are they wise planning, asks the ECRI Institute’s 2014 Top 10 Hospital C-Suite Watch List. Hospitals that have established geriatric or senior EDs have found the specialized care pays off.
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February 7, 2014 - The American Hospital Association (AHA) / Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) has released its annual report, which highlights the program’s major successes of the past two years. The report shows that significant improvements in quality were made in key ...
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February 4, 2014 - Palliative care is often described as specialized care designed to provide “an extra layer of support” for seriously ill patients and their families.
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February 2, 2014 - With the 2013-2014 influenza season well underway, many hospitals are experiencing difficulties obtaining enough normal saline to meet their needs.
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January 31, 2014 - A cacophony of beeps, tones, buzzers and other annoying sounds permeates some hospital units, making it difficult for patients to rest. Meanwhile, staff members become so used to the noise and the number of false alerts from equipment they often just tune it out, a problem called “alarm fatigue,” wh...
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January 27, 2014 - Where will doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals be working in the future?
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January 17, 2014 - For the second year in a row, AMN Healthcare has partnered with HELPS International, a charitable nonprofit corporation founded in 1984, whose mission is to alleviate medical problems in Guatemala's rural indigenous areas. Working together, AMN and HELPS International will be providing U.S. hospita...
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January 10, 2014 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced 123 more accountable care organizations (ACOs) have joined the Medicare Shared Savings Program and will assume responsibility to provide high-quality care at lower cost, with a better patient experience for approximately 1.5 million Medi...
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January 8, 2014 - The coming year will bring more change to an evolving healthcare system, with people and hospitals coming together in new alliances and integrated networks and technology and clinical advances taking off.
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January 8, 2014 - Nurses impaired by fatigue and an inability to recover between shifts report more concern that they made a wrong decision about a patient’s care than other nurses, according to a new study.
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January 1, 2014 - Jan. 2, 2014, AMN Healthcare Services Inc., the innovator in healthcare workforce solutions and largest provider of staffing services in the nation, announced today the promotion of Julie Fletcher to the newly created role of Chief Talent Officer, effective January 1, 2014.
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