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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

This means NPs can evaluate patients, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, and initiate and manage treatments (including prescribing medications) under the licensing authority of the State Board of Nursing. Since 2023, 27 states and the District of Columbia have granted NPs full practice authority (AANP, 2023).

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The Triumphs And Trials Of Duchenne Gene Therapy

Forbes Healthcare

This incident prompted renewed discussion about how to balance the urgent need for innovative treatments with the responsibility to ensure patient safety, especially as gene therapies become more widely used for treating rare diseases. It is opening new doors for people living with many other inherited conditions.

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Eliminate obstacles to delivering patient care

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

Issues such as staff shortages, compliance problems with medical devices , and poor patient meal-delivery services are some of the behind-the-scenes challenges faced by healthcare facilities. Disparate systems lead to disconnected experiences.

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How Consumers’ Economic Sentiments Are Shaping Peoples’ Financial and Emotional Well-Being: Learning from CivicScience

Health Populi

imported over $200 billion worth of pharmaceutical products in 2023, three-fourths of which come from Europe (think: Ireland, Germany, Switzerland). A study released this week conducted by Ernst & Young on behalf of PhRMA, the prescription drug industry group), calculated that U.S. pharma tariffs would raise U.S.

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Workforce Shortages and Health Care Cost Pressures Inspire RSNA 2023 (and yes, AI’s in the mix, too)

Health Populi

Every year when American Thanksgiving weekend comes along, you’ll find folks involved in digital imaging flocking to chilly Chicago to convene at McCormick Place for the 2023 annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America — RSNA for short.

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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI

Health Populi

The phrase “patient safety” summons up a list of common sources such as medication errors, surgical errors, health care-associated infections, diagnostic errors, among other adverse events and harms people experience in the course of receiving health care. “Safety is the foundation of healthcare.

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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI

Health Populi

We heard first-hand from one of the nurse-hacker-presenters that she herself was attacked by a patient — her experience being all-too-“normal” in 2023. This leads to a range of mental health, clinical, and economic impacts — moral distress up, job satisfaction down in the case of the employee scenario.

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