Feds award $103M in ARP funds to reduce healthcare worker burnout, shortages
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 25, 2022
The Biden administration is awarding $103 million in American Rescue Plan funds to 45 grantees to help reduce healthcare worker burnout and staffing shortages, the Department of Health and Human Services...
Staffing shortages tops this year’s list of safety concerns: ECRI
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 15, 2022
Staffing shortages topped the list of safety concerns of healthcare providers, according to an annual report released Monday by ECRI.
Companies see financial wellness programs as ways to recruit, retain workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 23, 2023
Employers are seeing financial wellness programs — with offerings such as basic money management tools and financial planning seminars and webinars — as a means of recruiting and retaining workers,...
Workers want pay, flexibility, culture, good career prospects: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 20, 2023
Workers want and need more from their employers, including good compensation, flexibility, a caring workplace culture and positive future. That’s according to a new report, People at Work 2023: A Global...
50 percent of nurses have ‘side hustle’ to earn extra income, explore opportunities
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 15, 2023
Half of the nursing workforce has a “side hustle,” or extra job, according to the findings of a new survey from connectRN and The Nursing Beat
OSHA, NAHCA alliance aims to protect CNAs from safety and health hazards
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 21, 2023
A new alliance between the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Association of Health Care Assistants aims to help protect certified nursing assistants...
Proposed task force would advise Congress, president on nursing shortage
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 05, 2023
A bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives would establish a task force to advise Congress and the president on ways to alleviate the nursing shortage in the healthcare industry.
Building a thriving care workforce means addressing burnout: Surgeon General advisory
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 24, 2022
“Confronting the long-standing drivers of burnout among our health workers must be a top national priority,” Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. said in an advisory published Monday.
Nursing homes to get staffing flexibility under bill
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 09, 2022
Nursing homes in Florida are expected to get more staffing flexibility under legislation passed Monday in the Florida Senate, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is expected to sign into law.
Healthcare staffing crisis isn’t pandemic-related phenomenon, union says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 21, 2022
Nurses and other healthcare workers are leaving the profession in record numbers. And that isn’t just a pandemic-related phenomenon, according to a report released Thursday by the American Federation...