Q: What is the Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Payment Total Nurse Staffing Measure? A: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awards incentive payments through the SNF VBP Program to ...

Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years.

On November 6, Massachusetts residents will vote on the Patient Safety Act—a mandate to increase nurse-to-patient ratios in acute care facilities. This ballot initiative was submitted by the ...

House Republicans have introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes. Under the requirements unveiled last ...

I recently read some of my former students’ philosophies of nursing. Consistently, they conveyed their desire to become nurses because they truly care about humanity. Most, though, also lamented that ...