COLORADO SPRINGS — The nursing shortage in our state is still growing and it's set to triple the national average, according to the National League for Nursing (NLN). NLN says the main factors causing ...
Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect. More than 1 ...
The decision points she describes are disturbingly frequent, especially in intensive care units (ICUs), where nurses might hear over a hundred alarms an hour, many of them false positives. There is a ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A Jamesville nursing home has been fined by the state for failing to protect residents from sexual abuse by other residents, which experts say is part of a growing national problem ...