Lisa Tarr, 33, of St. Petersburg, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to four counts of unlawfully obtaining controlled substances by fraud, deception, and subterfuge. She will be sentenced in February 2023.
Texas nurse Laura Morgan is pushing back against "implicit bias" training in the healthcare industry, which resulted in her being terminated from her job.
"Implicit bias training does operate on the concept that all healthcare workers are implicitly biased against their patients and must make decisions at the point of care based on things that don't have anything to do with the medical care of the patient," Morgan said.
The heads of three healthcare unions sent a letter to the state Department of Public Health, claiming portions of Windham Hospital are closed and implying that nurses are being punished for going on strike.
More than 22% of nursing positions in Kentucky hospitals remain unfilled, according to the Kentucky Hospital Association.
On Thursday, the group presented the results of its 2022 Workforce Survey. The numbers submitted by hospitals across Kentucky point to one thing: a serious staffing shortage.
University of Iowa Health Care leaders have notified employees that nurses in the coming weeks will face "some of the most challenging" staffing to date, warning that nurses in some units at times will have to take on five patients at once.
Some UIHC nurses report the "increase in nurse-patient ratios" is out of line, and they've coordinated a protest over it outside the hospital for Thursday.