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Men Enrolled in Nursing Schools
For the longest while the primary source of detailed nursing data was the HRSA National Sample Surveys of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). The last two NSSRN final reports showed that 6.6 percent of RNs...
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National Nurses Day 2013 with New Nursing Data
As I draft this new posting it is May 6, National Nurses Day, 2013. Today's blog highlights a new publication from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department...
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The transition from a student to a novice nurse can be an unsettling experience. An orientation which consists of a comprehensive nurse residency program has been shown to ease this transition. Since 2006, Iowa has encouraged nurse residency programs...
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Across the Board Increases in All Categories Save One
On April 9 CMS released information on Medicare’s 2011 Incentive Payment awardees for high quality and e-prescribing. APRN winners increased at a faster rate than observed...
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Between January 2009 and June 2012, there were 98 reported alarm-related events with 80 resulting in patient deaths, 13 in permanent loss of function, and five requiring additional care. Alarm equipped devices are essential in providing safe care...
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Walk-In Retail Clinics Provide Interdisciplinary Collaborative Care
There is a shortage of primary care physicians (PCP) in the United States. Since The Affordable Care Act was enacted to provide to millions of uninsured Americans health...
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Hospital Staff Nurse Wages Keep Pace with Inflation
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the fourth quarter 2012 numbers on Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC). BLS is our best source for information on wages and benefits...
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Increase in NCLEX-RN Passers Continues
NCSBN recently posted the NCLEX-RN passing rates for calendar year 2012. As mentioned in an earlier posting, “Look at Title VIII,” I calculated the actual number of persons who passed the...
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In 2011 in Every State Thousands of Medicare F-F-S Beneficiaries Were Treated by an APRN
In previous postings on One Strong Voice I have provided information on the participation of APRNs in directly billing Medicare Part B carriers for...
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APRNs Show Continued Growth in Medicare Part B Revenues
Medicare Part B statistics for 2011 show that growth in APRN approved charges continues to exceed Part B growth for all other providers. Non-APRN growth was 2.8%. APRN approved charges...
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Following the Money in Nursing Education
In the December 2011 issue of Health Affairs , Peter Buerhaus and colleagues surprised a number of people with a finding that there had been a resurgence in the number of relatively young RNs entering...
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Can evidence based policy be made using emotional insight? This was a glaring question for the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at its meeting this past week. There were some dramatic discussions about vaccines in some of the most...
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ANA is pleased to welcome guest blogger Mary Ann Blatz, RNC-NIC, MSN, IBCLC from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University.
Nurses are in a critical position to positively impact the health status of numerous...
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Anyone who saw the American Academy of Family Physicians’ recent report has braced for a flaring up of the age old turf battles between nurses and doctors. AAFP reaffirmed its support of physician-led medical homes for primary care delivery, and...
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Hospital Staff RNs--trends in compensation
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor collects lots and lots of information. So far I have concentrated on data from the Occupational Employment Survey (OES). In all likelihood...
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RN Wage Variations Between and Within Industries
When I first wrote for the One Strong Voice blog back in May, I reported on some of the data on Registered Nurse wages from the Occupational Employment Survey (OES) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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Registered Nurses Are Key to HCAHPS Scores
This is from an advertisement for a report (available for only $399), “Patient Experience and HCAHPS: Little Consensus on a Top Priority.”
Everyone wants to deliver a better patient experience—but...
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ANA got a message from Dr. Bruce Gellin, head of the National Vaccine Program Office in the federal government. As a strong proponent of flu vaccines for nurses and patients, ANA is pleased to share his message to you, our members -
This is...
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APRN Aces at Primary Care
In my first blog post for One Strong Voice last April I was impressed that APRNs had won more than $9 million in Medicare bonuses for high quality performance and electronic prescribing. Imagine my surprise...
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We are thrilled to welcome guest blogger Caroline Ridgway, JD, Policy and Communications Director for the Convenient Care Association (CCA).
Retail-based convenient care clinics have come a long way since the first clinic opened in 2000,...
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CDC Director Tom Friedan (at podium) addresses the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on June 20, 2012. ANA is a liaison member, and is the only RN-level association at the table.
According to some vaccine skeptics, vaccination...
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Our current health care system relies on a failed safety net system that renders catastrophic effects of that failure on our most vulnerable residents. For the first time since 1965, our lawmakers have passed a plan to improve substantially the...
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Next week – most likely Monday the 25 th but possibly the 28 th -- the U.S. Supreme Court will be handing down its ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Predictions by court experts and observers swing wildly from week to...
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APRNs Recognized as Meaningful Users
On June 19, 2012 executives from CMS and the ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) announced that more than 100,000 health care providers were using electronic health records that meet...
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Public relations is an integral part of policy work for advanced practice nurses and midwives – if the public and policy makers don’t understand who we are and what we do, it’s difficult to advance our policy agenda. So a story on midwives in the...