Articles Tagged With: Staffing
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Healing HCWs — Including IPs — Is a National Priority for CDC, NIOSH
Burnout among all stripes of healthcare workers — including infection preventionists — has become a dire situation warranting national action. Accordingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have released new research and emphasized available resources to raise awareness for an ambitious “system change” in healthcare delivery.
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Sweeping Senate Healthcare Legislation Heads to Markup
The HELP Committee has reached a bipartisan agreement on a crucial bill to expand primary care services and the healthcare workforce.
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More Support Needed for Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinators
Considering professional organizations view the pediatric emergency care coordinator role as essential to pediatric readiness in U.S. EDs, there is concern about health system commitment to the role, based on the results of a survey of the physicians and nurses serving in those positions.
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Advanced Practice Providers Are Seeing High-Acuity Patients in EDs
If advanced practice providers see high-acuity patients without direct supervision by a qualified emergency physician, patients may not receive appropriate comprehensive care.
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Government Commits Funding to Grow U.S. Nursing Workforce
HHS announces $100 million to hire more nurse educators, train new nurses, and help current nurses elevate their careers.
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APIC 2023: IP Reinvention Includes Diverse Initiatives
Although the prime mission of protecting patients and healthcare personnel remains the goal, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is undertaking an ambitious agenda of initiatives as part of a post-pandemic reassessment and reinvention.
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Virtual Nurses Alleviate Burdens on Frontline Staff, Critical Workforce Shortages
Across the United States, health systems are experimenting with programs that enable nurses, working remotely, to handle tasks that usually are handled by in-person, bedside nurses. These virtual nurses are managing everything from purposeful rounding to handling administrative tasks that often keep bedside nurses from spending more time on patient care.
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When ED Is Packed, Keep Patients Moving with Triage Hallway, Dedicated Staff
Since Pull to Infinity was implemented in June 2022, the average time it takes to see a provider in the ED has dropped from 22 minutes to seven minutes. This, despite continually expanding volumes. The average patient arrival-to-discharge time has improved to 175 minutes, down seven minutes. Also, the leave-without-being-seen rate declined from 3.5% last year to 1.6% in the first four months of 2023.
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Tough Love: Returning Injured Workers to Full Duty
There are pressures in today’s healthcare environment to ensure injured or sick workers return to duty, but this must be balanced against their needed recovery time. It takes a delicate combination of compassion and skepticism — and no small amount of detective work — to make the right call.
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The Vanishing Nurse: Staff, Patients in Peril
Around 1 million nurses may leave the field in the next few years, leaving the perennial “most trusted” profession absent at the bedside. The exodus was triggered by a pandemic, entrenched by a haphazard response, and then revealed in demographics that indicate the old are retiring and the young are leaving early.