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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

percent of the total distribution in the 2017 dataset to 20.3 percent compared to the 2017 dataset ($300,506). 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.

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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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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

Nurse.com

This means integrating and applying knowledge with the objective of improving processes and procedures with patient care. Nurses and other front-line healthcare providers help drive information technology, including how it ultimately improves patient care, Newbold said. The career is certainly evolving.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

How do we include the people that you care about in these conversations? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. What are your goals? What are your values? What’s the intervention?

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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

Palladian Health described itself as “comprehensive muscular skeletal health care company that integrates physical therapy, chiropractic, health and fitness with patient care advocacy to improve clinical and economic outcomes,” and listed Chou as a member of its Clinical Advisory Board (32).

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Jessie Merlin is an addiction and palliative care physician, and professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Jessie, last time we had you on in 2017, we asked you the question, should palliative care fellowship training include management of chronic pain? 2017 podcast. It’s not well-documented.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. From my experience, men in nursing has a positive impact on patient care and work culture.

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