This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view. Click here to advertise in this news brief.   Mobile version    RSS    Subscribe    Unsubscribe    Archive    Media Kit Nov. 20, 2012 Home   About MARN   Membership   Career Center   Meetings/Events   News   Contact Us       CMS rule creates reimbursement opportunities for RNs Nurse.com    Share    The American Nurses Association touted a new Medicare rule that calls for paying advanced practice RNs for primary care services intended to effectively manage patients' transitions from hospitals to other settings while preventing complications and conditions that lead to expensive hospital readmissions. More  MARN News & Updates MARN wishes you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving. Maryland Nurses Association is sponsoring a webinar about fracking Share    Energy in Crisis: Fracking and Health Wednesday, Nov. 28, 1-2 p.m. The webinar is presented by the Maryland Nurses Association. Registration details coming soon. Save the Dates Share    Massachusetts Student Nurses Association Career Forum — March 9, 2013, Worcester State University MARN Health Policy Committee Legislative Action Forum — March 22, 2013, the Statehouse MARN 2013 Living Legends in Nursing and Annual Awards Banquet — April 26, 2013, Lombardo's, Randolph MARN Annual Spring Convention — April 27, 2013, Lombardo's, Randolph  Around Massachusetts The challenge: Bring down Massachusetts health costs Kaiser Health News    Share    Massachusetts is the first state to say that healthcare costs must stop increasing faster than that of most other goods and services. Professor Stuart Altman, a Brandeis economist who advised President Richard Nixon on health policy and President Bill Clinton on Medicare, has responsibility for helping the state achieve that goal. More Special Feature: NURSING EVOLUTION Discover nursing’s history from technological advancements to multi-faceted responsibilities facing today’s nurses. Brought to you by Loyola University New Orleans’ online MS in Nursing. MORE Elsevier We help customers advance science and health by providing world-class information and innovative tools that help them make critical decisions, enhance productivity and improve outcomes. MORE  Nursing News Pediatricians, pediatric nurses may lack training in concussion care Reuters    Share    Pediatricians and pediatric nurses often see young patients with concussions, but a new survey suggests they may lack the tools and training to diagnose and treat them. Researchers found 127 out of 145 pediatric primary and emergency care providers had referred at least one concussion patient to another doctor in the last three months. Sixteen percent of the providers said they didn't have the right training to tell families about their child's diagnosis. More Get nurses on board for successful EHR adoption Becker's ASC Review    Share    Nurses and physician assistants are an integral part of a successful electronic health record implementation, according to EHR Intelligence. A 2008 EHR adoption survey found practices had an 83 percent higher success rate when a nurse was assigned to enter the history of present illness and review of systems data for a patient into the EHR. More Xerox designs system to reduce busywork for nurses MIT Technology Review    Share    Nurses spend lots of time doing what seems like busywork — logging into computers, pulling up patient files, entering details of what they did, and coordinating their duties with others. Researchers at Xerox are developing what they call the Digital Nurse Assistant to automate and simplify some of this work. The project is part of a broader trend to adapt information technology to the healthcare system to make it more efficient and cost-effective. More Family's questions about Alzheimer's patients can put nurses in a bind HealthDay News    Share    Many nurses and other health workers at Alzheimer's care facilities feel unprepared to tell patients' family members the truth about their loved one's condition, a new study finds. More  Healthcare News Drug shortages persist in US, harming care The New York Times    Share    From rural ambulance squads to prestigious hospitals, healthcare workers are struggling to keep vital medicines in stock because of a drug shortage crisis that is proving to be stubbornly difficult to fix. Rationing is just one example of the extraordinary lengths being taken to address the shortage, which healthcare workers say has ceased to be a temporary emergency and is now a fact of life. In desperation, they are resorting to treating patients with less effective alternative medicines and using expired drugs. More Big rise in Americans with diabetes, especially in South Reuters    Share    A breakdown of U.S. diabetes cases shows dramatic increases in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes overall between 1995 and 2010, with especially sharp increases among people in the South and in Appalachian states. More Growing hospice costs focus of Medicare audits San Diego Union-Tribune    Share    Once the domain of volunteers and churches, hospice is now a multibillion-dollar nationwide industry, with growth rates over the last decade that would please even the most ambitious financial manager. Medicare payments to hospice programs have ballooned from $3 billion in 2000 to $13 billion in 2010, turning what was formerly a minor expense into a target of government auditors desperate to rein in soaring medical costs. More  Policy & Reform Supervision laws worsen care access amid doctor shortage FierceHealthcare    Share    As the Affordable Care Act increases demand for care, supervision rules won't allow nonphysician providers to fill the void left by the physician shortage, according to healthcare experts from University of Michigan School of Nursing. More Obama administration expected to release many new rules for health law Kaiser Health News    Share    With the national health law's political future now entrenched, a deluge of new rules is expected in the coming days and weeks as the Obama administration fleshes out the law's complex components. More Study: US will need 52,000 more family docs by 2025 Reuters    Share    A growing and aging population, along with increased access to health insurance, will create the need for 52,000 more primary care doctors within the United States by the year 2025, according to a new study. The researchers wanted to estimate how many such doctors the U.S. healthcare system would need after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which will give an estimated 34 million more Americans access to health insurance. More   MARN Nursing Flash Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469.420.2601 Download media kit Christine Kraly, Content Editor, 469.420.2685    Contribute news This edition of the MARN Nursing Flash was sent to ##Email##. To unsubscribe, click here. Did someone forward this edition to you? Subscribe here -- it's free! Recent issues Nov. 13, 2012 Nov. 6, 2012 Oct. 30, 2012 Oct. 23, 2012 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063