Monday | May 8, 2023

Healthcare starts with you. This is your beat.

Hello, Readers!

HAPPY NURSES WEEK to all my fellow nurses braving the good storm that is healthcare. This year, it was an honor to shift focus from receiving the pizza party to planning something meaningful that commemorates every nurse for what they deserve. We have teamed up with Guardian Medical Direction, an organization that helps nurses start their own businesses by offering consultation on facilitating complicated regulatory requirements associated with being an owner. So, if you are a nurse with a great business idea who doesn’t know where to start, this week, we are giving ten nurses a free consultation with the CEO of Guardian, Chris Seitz! He’ll walk you through your next steps to achieving your dream (enter to win below!) 

Healthcare is complicated. But your next step in your career doesn’t have to be with the right community support 💜.

Stay safe. Be healthy. Be kind. 

Tamara AL-Yassin (aka Nurse T)

CEO | The Nursing Beat 

PS: Our friends at Guardian also gave three nurses $500 bonuses for Nurses Week. Stay tuned to hear their stories this week!

STARTING YOUR OWN HEALTHCARE BIZ? 💬

MORNING BRIEF 🍳 ☕️

Nurse Union Highlights Issues With “Home All Alone” Programs
 

“Home All Alone” programs, such as those championed by Kaiser Permanente, allow hospitals to treat patients at home for conditions that require hospitalization for acute care. Supposedly, the programs increase patient comfort while reducing costs. But the California Nurses Association is sounding the alarm, arguing that such programs endanger patients and nurses’ jobs, and they are little more than “patient-dumping” schemes to increase corporate profits (a Trump Administration rule allows hospitals to still receive the full inpatient reimbursement rate). They are urging lawmakers to disallow such programs. 

Kaiser says its Advanced Care at Home program has improved patient satisfaction and reduced healthcare-acquired conditions. But some nurses have reported that acutely ill patients are sent home with a watch that serves as a call button and a tablet set up in their treatment room at home. For nurses, their time is spent arranging for medication and care delivery. 

Cincinnati’s Xavier University Settles $750K Suit with Students

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Xavier University ceased in-person learning and moved its accelerated bachelor’s degree in nursing program online. As expected, however, the program’s laboratory work and clinical placements were canceled. The school had previously stressed the importance of real-life experience, telling applicants it’s “impossible to earn a BSN 100% online.” As a result, nearly 500 nursing students sued the school for subpar education, and Xavier has now agreed to settle the $750,000 suit. 

A university spokesperson told the Cincinnati Enquirer: “Because the ABSN students were already enrolled in an online nursing program, the only in-person instruction they were not able to take advantage of was clinical instruction due to the worldwide pandemic.” The university also claims to be “proud” of the education it was able to offer students during that time. 

Jefferson Health Hospital in PA to End Acute Care and Emergency Services

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is ending acute care, general surgery, and emergency services at its Einstein Medical Center Elkins Park. Instead, these services are being “transitioned” to Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia and Jefferson Abington Hospital. Jefferson is also expanding its inpatient physical rehabilitation services at Elkins Park’s MossRehab, which is recognized as one of “America’s Best” rehabilitation facilities by the U.S. News & World Report.

Jefferson explains that physical rehabilitation services are expected to grow significantly over the next decade. Its services shakeup allows Jefferson to centralize its rehabilitation care. Additionally, Jefferson Abington Hospital will be able to add 23 general medical beds, which will help “decompress” the emergency department. The transition is expected to affect 115 of the 1,000 employees at the hospital. “Jefferson Health is committed to minimizing the impact on employees, and our goal is to retain all employees affected by these changes,” Jefferson told Becker’s Hospital Review.

GUARDIAN MD BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT 🔦

Michigan Immune Defense, owned and founded by Mallory Capp RN, provides the citizens of Michigan with a means of fortifying their immune system and body as a whole through targeted infusions and vitamin injections.

COMMUNITY PICKS 🌼 

We’re suckers for a good headband, so it’s even better that there are four in this set! Each one has an adorable nurse-theme print that will match almost any color scrubs!

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What Remote Nursing Job Is Right For You?

If you’re new to remote nursing, trying to figure out what career options are available and which ones you qualify for can be a little confusing.

That’s why we’ve created a host of career guides to help you get acquainted with your options, including positions in case management, health coaching, clinical documentation integrity specialist, telephonic triage, legal nurse consulting (LNC), freelance writing, utilization review and management, denials and appeals, data abstraction, prior authorizations, and HEDIS.

You might still be trying to figure out which jobs work best for your schedule needs and background, so we made a quiz at Nurse Fern to help! Take our free quiz to find out what remote nurse role is best for you. Take the quiz here!

Ready to find your remote nursing role? Nurse Fern caters to remote job postings to nurses leaving the bedside. Check out our daily remote nurse job postings on Nurse Fern.

DAILY DIVERSION 💊

We’ve all heard it: laughter is the best medicine, and there’s some evidence behind that. And it’s incredibly important for nurses, helping to reduce stress and burnout. So with that said, here are 101 nurse memes that are funny and very relatable. 

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