Opinion | ‘You Can Create Some Scary Sounding Headlines’: What We Heard This Week
“If you only report on the nurses leaving, and don’t account for those who are coming in, you can create some scary sounding headlines.” — David Auerbach, PhD, of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the rebound of the registered nurse workforce following a pandemic slump. “It’s still the reality to the patient, and to […]
Opinion | ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Are a Greater Health Threat Than Mass Shootings
Another week, another series of mass shootings in America leaving two dozen dead in three states. Having spent my career on the frontlines as a trauma surgeon and gun violence prevention researcher, I want to highlight a recent report by the RAND Corporation. In it they concluded that stand-your-ground laws — which declare that people […]
Want to Keep People Working in Mental Health? Pay Them More $$, Experts Say
WASHINGTON — What will it take to keep mental health professionals from leaving the field? About $13 per hour more in pay, said Emily Blomme, CEO of Foundation 2 Crisis Services, a crisis prevention and intervention service in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during a mental health summit sponsored by the Alliance for Health Policy Wednesday. For […]