A school health specialist for Region 16 from Bushland was among 12 appointed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to the Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome Advisory Council.
For generations, learning to be a nurse meant studying textbooks, practicing on mannequins and then facing real people. Now, modern nursing schools have added a new step: virtual reality.
A Wall Street Journal investigation of insurer home visits found the companies pushed nurses to run screening tests and add unusual diagnoses, turning the roughly hourlong stops in patients’ homes into an extra $1,818 per visit, on average, from 2019 to 2021.
Bill sponsor Rep. Mike Prax, R-North Pole, said there are more than 1,500 registered nurse vacancies in the state — which is expected to exceed 5,000 by 2030. Prax sees the new law as a start in addressing the issue, but others in the nursing profession have mixed feelings about it.
The Nurse-Family Partnership is a national program that sends nurses to meet first-time moms at their homes and it is managed in part by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Early Intervention division.