What Is Nursing Care Worth?
Discussions around "What is a nurse worth?" are missing the larger question.
The Economics of Nursing
The money, math, and systems behind nurse staffing and patient safety, and the errors that quietly leave nursing under-resourced.
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A federal court just handed nursing a rare, coordinated win. But the loan-limit fight is a symptom, and the deeper leverage is in how nursing is counted and funded.
The DOE Didn't Undervalue Nursing. The Reimbursement Structure Did.
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What the Challenger Disaster and Nurse Staffing Have in Common
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Podcast: The 66-year-old math error quietly causing nurse understaffing
Today is International Nurses Day.
Becker's covers the middle-school math error at the heart of many nursing budgets. More coming.
On April 30, Becker’s Healthcare published a four-point breakdown of the staffing formula error I documented in April. KFF Health News covered it in their newsletter.