Day: September 16, 2021

The message from Big Bend Regional Medical Center was stark: The only hospital in a sparsely populated region of far West Texas notified local physicians last month that because of a nursing shortage its labor and delivery unit needed to temporarily close its doors and that women in labor should instead be sent to the …

Flipping the Switch on Advanced Practice Business Models – Expanding State Enforcement Read More »

What changes can we make to improve hospital care during the pandemic? Better staffing? Better protective, safety measures? And what about lifestyle measures – are you rotating your staff in a manner that allows adequate rest, refreshment to withstand another shift treating Covid patients? Have you done everything necessary to protect and support nurses, the …

Changing Hospital Culture to Retain Nursing Staff Read More »

Over 25 states require advanced practice nurses – nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists or clinical nurse specialists – to have some form of collaboration with physicians. States have embedded these requirements into state licensure laws. Initially, the expectation was that physicians would collaborate willingly, without fees with nurses as such had been the professional …

Nursing and Collaboration Read More »