Nursing home groups divided on proposed increase on bed tax
A proposal late in the legislative session to raise the nursing provider assessment, commonly known as the nursing home bed tax, has split the industry.
Students of Shuttered Nursing School Sue State Officials for Overreach
Former students of a now-shuttered for-profit nursing school in Connecticut have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that two state agencies invalidated their course credits, withheld licenses, and damaged their professional reputations. The nine former students of Stone Academy — which closed suddenly earlier this year and has been subject to state investigations ever since — […]
Nursing Leaders Tackle Ways to Fix ‘Accelerated Burnout’ in New Nurses
Nursing leaders shared strategies for addressing “accelerated burnout” among nurses new to the profession during a panel discussion hosted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) on Thursday. Approximately 100,000 RNs left the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and another 800,000 anticipate leaving in the next 5 years, said Maryann Alexander, PhD, […]
Excess calories during development alters the brain and spurs adult overeating
People whose mothers are overweight during pregnancy and nursing may become obese as adults because early overnutrition rewires developing brains to crave unhealthy food, according to a Rutgers study in Molecular Metabolism. Rutgers researchers traced this link from mother to child in mice with an experiment that began by letting some mice get obese on […]
COVID Risk Up to 50% Higher for Nursing Home Residents Behind on Vaccination
Nursing home residents who were not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines had a 30% to 50% higher risk of getting infected compared with those who were up to date, CDC researchers said. From Oct. 10, 2022 to Jan. 8, 2023, weekly COVID incidence rates ranged from 7.2 to 15.6 per 1,000 nursing home […]
Opinion | ‘Sit Down, Shut Up and Sign, Don’t Make Waves’: What We Heard This Week
“Some nursing homes and chains will hire medical directors to just do what I call the three S’s: Sit down. Shut up and sign. Don’t make waves.” — Karl Steinberg, MD, immediate past president of the Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine, on a proposed bill requiring all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes to […]
Here Are This Year’s Top Schools for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree
For those looking to pursue a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree, the University of Pennsylvania is once again the top place to do so, according to U.S. News & World Report. The University of Pennsylvania remained atop the 2022-2023 list after winning first place in last year’s inaugural BSN rankings. Emory University took […]
More Support Needed to Shore Up Nurse Pipeline, Experts Say
While interest in nursing as a career hasn’t diminished, faculty shortages and other institutional factors have prevented some from entering the field, experts explained during an online panel discussion on Tuesday, which was hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center and sponsored by the American Hospital Association. Recent data have shown that the number of nurses […]
Opinion | Nursing Homes Have More Than Just a COVID Problem
For more than a year, my colleagues and I have been publishing a monthly COVID-19 Nursing Home Dashboard tracking the impact of COVID-19 on nursing home residents and staff. That’s 14 months assembling data on how many nursing homes are understaffed or don’t have enough personal protective equipment (PPE), 14 months documenting the rates of […]