- Increase Program Matriculation and Graduation Rates
- Violence Against Nurses
- Rapid Growth of AI Raises Practical and Ethical Questions For Providers
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Nursing Program Enrollment Down
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ANA, ENA & ACEP Sound the Alarm on Violence Against Nurses
Sounding the alarm (again), or making it a federal crime to assault a health care facility employee isn’t addressing anything. Emergency rooms are the dumping ground for psychological and drug-related issues not addressed by the criminal justice system or the state’s responsibilities in mental health care. Most violence in the ED doesn’t meet with any corrective behavior, except “sedate and discharge”. Three-quarters of the incidents happen in the ED, and a majority of the offenders should have already been in the care of the poorly funded criminal justice or mental health systems. Violent people are being dropped into hospitals that are ill-equipped to deal with them. Anyway, rant over.
ANA, ENA & ACEP Sound the Alarm on Violence Against Nurses
Absence of AI Hospital Rules Worries Nurses
While prompted by concerns about rules regarding use of AI diagnostics and treatment aids, or embedding AI into hospital processes, the real concern should probably be with payment and decision-making systems. In many ways, expansion of AI processes at the patient level can be a boon to nurses - but turning AI loose on making decisions about prior authorizations and treatment versus cost decisions would be bad on so many levels.
Fast-Paced Growth of Artificial Intelligence Raises Practical and Ethical Questions for Providers
AACN Data Shows Enrollment Problems
Enrollment in entry level nursing school is shrinking, if you consider population growth. Enrollment is BSN programs dropped, on both a real basis and considering population. You have to scroll way down to the middle of the article to discover the cycle of rapid growth and then pullback, and that the biggest problem is not applicants, it’s faculty and facilities to train. PhD programs continued to shrink, a 10-year trend, and DNP programs continued to grow, a 20-year trend. Clinical sites, faculty, classrooms, teaching resources and preceptors are the limiting factors.
New AACN Data Points to Enrollment Challenges Facing U.S. Schools of Nursing
