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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

percent of all claims in the 2022 dataset, compared to 13 percent in the 2012 dataset. NSO and CNA’s Nurse Practitioner Claim Report revealed that in the 2022 dataset, 66 percent of all claims involved NPs specializing in family and adult-gerontology primary care. For example, claims that resolved for over $500,000 represented 21.5

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioners (NPs) have a great deal of responsibility regarding patient care, and as the healthcare landscape evolves, so do the daily risks NPs face. Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety.

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Regulators Taking Aim at Hospice PE Backers

Hospice News

With this growing influence comes renewed scrutiny about their impact on patient care, federal policymakers have indicated. Ginn made these comments in a presentation at the Bank of America Securities Annual Healthcare Conference in Las Vegas. also have begun probing the role of private equity in the health care space.

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Nursing the Nation and the World

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. Nurses are everywhere. They are legion.

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The Rise of Hospital at Home

AlayaCare

These diseases of course are still present; for families and their health-care teams, it’s just become more challenging to manage them. We’re waging ba ttles on multiple fronts – and, like battles before this, our hospitals, governments and home care industry have tried to step up to provide solutions.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

Pallimed

Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy “I'm present. More importantly, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Chou’s employer, announced on August 31, 2012, that it had received from AHRQ a five-year contract to serve as an Evidence-Based Practice Center, which funded Chou’s work (33). Kollas MD, Terri A.

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A Message to the Nurse's Future Self

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

The Legacy of the Nurse A nurse's life and career are more than the sum of patients cared for and colleagues supported. I've known nurses who fed the homeless and cared for wounded animals. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast. Did you laugh? Did you cry?

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