Like many hospitals across the United States, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany has been battling the increasing nursing shortage due to the pandemic and an aging population.
To better serve its patients and help overcome the nursing shortage, Phoebe piloted a virtual remote nurse model of care to support bedside nurses.
Modern hospital management has come to see the cost of nursing as a major obstacle to optimal profits. Under the guise of efficiency, fewer nurses are deployed throughout the hospital each shift. The ratio of RNs to patients has been steadily falling for several years.
ST. LOUIS – Mercy mourns the loss of an iconic health care leader. Sister Mary Roch Rocklage died Tuesday at the age of 87 after a lengthy battle with an illness.
A recent McKinsey Consulting Firm study projects dire nurse staffing issues in the next few years, as the U.S. could be short 450,000 nurses, or 20% of the nurses needed, by 2025.
However, another severe, imminent shortage is not discussed widely, one that could make the problem even worse: a shortage of nursing faculty.
Nursing home workers at two dozen facilities in Pennsylvania are expected to begin a strike on Sept. 2. This follows a vote on Monday among workers from three of the biggest chains in the commonwealth: Guardian Healthcare and two chains owned by Mordy Lahasky – Comprehensive Healthcare and Priority Healthcare. The Service Employees International Union said the strike comes following allegations of unfair labor practices.
York College of Pennsylvania's nursing program is responding to a shortage of primary care providers by adding an online Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track to its Master of Science in Nursing program.