“I think we’re continuing to make strides.”
Both staffing concerns and an ongoing mental health crisis are impacting the City of Richmond’s ability to fully operate the Marcus Alert system.
Until now, the only staffing rule for nursing homes has been that they have “sufficient” staff, without specifying what that means.
Iowa City Transit started reducing its services on Monday due to a shortage of bus drivers. Darian Nagle-Gamm, Iowa City Transit director of transportation services, said the service is currently eight drivers short of the staff required to run Iowa City Transit at its regular service levels. It currently operate with a staff of 48
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday that the Biden administration has finalized the first-ever minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes. The move comes after the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw advocates for the elderly reporting poor living conditions for residents in which they’d go hours without meals and water and were not kept properly clean. […]
Negotiations between nurses and hospital leaders at The Queen’s Health System are now underway for a new, three-year contract.
Four NHS Lothian nurses, along with a Lothian nursing team, have been announced as finalists in the prestigious RCN Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards 2024. The awards, covering a variety of different categories, showcase the very best of nursing across Scotland, celebrating the commitment and professional care provided by nursing staff. Community staff nurse Elaine Wilson has been shortlisted for the Children’s Nursing & Midwifery Award for her exceptional leadership and dedication in...
The rules primarily address staffing levels for three types of nursing home workers. Registered nurses, or RNs, are the most skilled and responsible for guiding overall care and setting treatment plans.
At their final meeting of the month on Monday, Richmond City School Board members will discuss topics that could impact numerous students across the district, including a school name change and staffing shortages.
Ontario nurse Kristen Nagle, a well-known figure in Canada's pro-freedom movement during COVID, said her sentence of two-years probation is effectively a way for the government to silence her for the foreseeable future.
"The Western Health and Social Care Trust has a rolling advert to recruit midwives. “The unit will open as soon as safe midwifery staffing can be achieved,” Mr. Swann confirmed. He was responding to an Assembly Question tabled by Foyle MLA Sinéad McLaughlin. The Western Trust has previously referred to ‘a shortage of midwives regionally’ and indicated that the health authority had taken steps to increase ‘the number of midwives in training in an attempt to improve the recruitment of staff’. Mr....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the first rule to set minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes and require that a certain portion of the taxpayer dollars they receive go toward wages for care workers is a long-overdue “milestone” that recognizes their value to society. Harris announced the rules []