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March 2024 Healthcare Data Breach Report

The HIPAA Journal

The last time more than 90 data breaches were reported in a single month was September 2020. Across the 93 reported data breaches, the protected health information of 2,971, 249 individuals was exposed or impermissibly disclosed – the lowest total for March since 2020.

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Culturally Competent Nursing Mentorship

Minority Nurse

Census Bureau (2020), 57.8% This level of teaching students culturally competent care must be transferred and utilized with mentor-mentee relationships between professors and students, nurse administrators and new nurses, and professors and new faculty. Census Statistics and Nursing Numbers. According to the U.S. of the population.

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Advocating for Critical Care Transport Nurses

Minority Nurse

In response, we developed and launched the online (and now, award-winning) BCEN Learn platform in 2020 and offered our first regional, in-person CE conference, BCEN Learn Live , in 2022. The number of CTRN-certified nurses surged 19 percent in 2020, 29 percent in 2021, and 24 percent in 2022.

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Home Health Agencies Face Growing Competition as Value-Based Purchasing Expands Nationally

Relias

A recent Relias webinar on HHVBP indicated that the total Medicare spending reduction in the program’s first five years (2016-2020) resulted in a $942.2 When determining improvement scores, the baseline year will be 2019 as opposed to 2020 due to the potential effects of COVID-19 distorting the data. Toilet transferring.

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HIPAA Violation Cases

The HIPAA Journal

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. The 2020 increase is largely due to OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access enforcement initiative, which was launched in late 2019. million penalty.

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How a CNA Training Program Could Be Beneficial for Your Future Career

Mildred Elley

Overall employment of nursing assistants and orderlies is projected to grow 8 percent from 2020 to 2030 4. Apart from medical procedures, patients often need help with day-to-day activities, which is where you could play a big role. What does the job outlook look like for the future? Working as a CNA: What Does the Future Hold?

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How a CNA Training Program Could Be Beneficial for Your Future Career

Mildred Elley

Overall employment of nursing assistants and orderlies is projected to grow 8 percent from 2020 to 2030 4. Apart from medical procedures, patients often need help with day-to-day activities, which is where you could play a big role. What does the job outlook look like for the future? Working as a CNA: What Does the Future Hold?