Doctors and nurses who provide care to expectant mothers and those who have just given birth will be required to take classes in bias training in an effort to help lower the higher rate of poor maternal health outcomes among women of color in New Jersey, under new rules published this week.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s fifth annual Nurse Camp has begun, providing high school students with an opportunity to explore the nursing profession.
Twenty-one years ago, a small handful of Democratic lawmakers introduced a measure that could have made New Jersey the first state to require nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in its hospitals. The legislation never advanced and a version is still pending today.
A year-old Maine law seems to have done little to curb a surge in violence against healthcare workers that began during the pandemic, despite increasing charges for assaults on nonmedical staff.