Due to state laws and federal agency proposed rulemakings regulating the scenarios where employers can engage workers as independent contractors versus employees, hospitals and other facilities who seek to use hiring apps may risk violating these laws if they engage workers as independent contractors who should be classified as employees instead.
State legislators and members of the Minnesota Nurses Association on Monday said they were blindsided when they learned of demands from the Mayo Clinic to the legislature: reject or make big changes to two bills or it will pull billions in planned investments and move them somewhere else.
Teberah Alexander, RN, kicked off National Nurses Week by showcasing healthcare careers for children and trying to interest them in the same way she became interested: by stoking their curiosity. Alexander's Future Nurses Program gives children 6-13 years old hands-on experience in nursing and healthcare professions with interactive workshops.
Few nurses are willing or able to make the transition from the clinical ranks to the classroom, primarily because of financial reasons: Faculty jobs often involve a substantial pay cut, running at least several thousand dollars less a year than in clinical settings.
The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will unveil a mobile health unit dedicated to increasing healthcare access in underserved Lake and Lauderdale counties and allow the college to integrate rural health education into its undergraduate and graduate programs.