Nursing Salaries
A recent article on nurse.com dealt with a study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”) showing that nursing salaries have gone up 2.6% per year. As baby boomers are aging and more people have access to health care, more and more nurses are needed. The BLS predicts that nursing employment will grow 16% from 2014 to 2024. I believe that there is a shift more towards outpatient care rather than inpatient care as hospitals are discharging patients earlier than in the past. … [Read more...]
The Medicare/Medicaid Exclusion List
If a nurse ever faces a criminal matter, they could wind up on the Medicare and Medicaid Exclusion list which prohibits a nurse from working in any facility where they take Medicare or Medicaid payments which is virtually every place. The goal of many attorneys is to keep a nurse with a criminal matter out of prison which is proper and a worthy goal for their client. However, many an attorney may not understand the ramification if their nurse client is added to the exclusion list that makes … [Read more...]
NSO Study
Recently I had an opportunity to review the Nursing Service Organization (NSO) Nurse Professional Liability Exposure 2015 Claim Report Update, which looked at claims regarding assessment and monitoring, treatment and care, chain-of-command and scope of practice. I always find these types of reviews to be so interesting. Several surprising things I noticed in this report included 23.9% of the claims involved agency nurses with the majority being from home care agencies. Another surprise was … [Read more...]
Victory For Nurse Practitioners
Finally, the Department of Veteran Affairs has granted veterans direct access to advanced practice registered nurses. It used to be that nurse practitioners were under the direction of a physician. However, now in the entire VA system, nurse practitioners can practice independently. This will give veterans increased access to care and decrease the long wait times that they have been experiencing. There are over 200,000 nurse practitioners in the country; 5,000 who work in the VA system. … [Read more...]
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