When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

The authors probed Medicare Part B data to explore outpatient clinical procedures performed by physician associates and nurse practitioners and report the trends from 2014 through 2021. Objective: We ...

Nurse-patient ratios can increase by 50% when neurocritical care RNs travel off the unit to accompany patients to tests. After a period of multiple changes and high nurse turnover in the 32-bed ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Treatments like injectables, fillers and laser seem to be all the rage these days. Now, new ...

To submit a legal/professional question for future consideration, write to the editor at [email protected] (include "Ask the Expert" in the subject line). State laws give nurses the legal ...

BOSTON (AP) — Nurses at a Massachusetts hospital allege that hospital leaders are defying a state order to delay certain surgeries, though officials at the facility say they’re following state rules.

WEBVTT WHY THE DOCTORS WHO PERFORM THE HISTORIC SURGERY SAY THE CHANGE IN MEDICINE IS AN UPHILL BATTLE. HILLARY: AFTER A TRAUMATIC EMERGENCY C-SECTION WITH HER FIRST SON -- EVERYTHING LEADING UP TO IT ...

Time is running out, with just five days left from the possibility of New York City nurses going on strike at seven major local hospitals — but the nurses union says not all of those hospitals were at ...

The cardiovascular laboratory department at the hospital is centered on the care of a person's heart and blood vessel problems. The cardiac "cath lab," as it's called, has a pre- and post-procedure ...

Mission Hospital nurses wrote to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services beginning more than a year ago saying that staffing issues and communication procedures for transferring ...

A former nurse at University of Cincinnati Medical Center has sued the hospital, claiming practices and procedures are putting patients in danger.Kimberly Jeffery-Wolfert, a former nurse at UC Health, ...