The Biden administration finalized on Monday the first-ever minimum staffing rule at nursing homes, Vice President Kamala Harris announced.
The controversial mandate requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day, including defined periods from registered nurses and from nurse aides. That means a facility with 100 residents would need at least two or three registered nurses and at least 10 or 11 nurse aides, as well as two additional nurse staff, who could be registered nurses, licensed professional nurses or nurse aides, per shift, according to a White House fact sheet.
Plus, nursing homes must have a registered nurse onsite at all times. The mandate will be phased in, with rural communities having longer timeframes, and temporary exemptions will be available for facilities in areas with workforce shortages that demonstrate a good faith effort to hire.
The rule, which was first proposed in September and initially called for at least three hours of daily nursing care per resident, is aimed at addressing nursing homes that are chronically understaffed, which can lead to sub-standard or unsafe care, the White House said.
What does nursing school cost there? What type of nursing degree is needed to fill the roles that are short? Most nurses here don’t need a multi-year course. The entry level nurse position is a 6 month course. Do elderly care facilities need a higher degree than the entry level? Or does that not exist there? The higher nursing degree is a proper medical degree and of course takes years, but I don’t think that’s the kind of nurses needed for this is it?
America?
This works better if you don’t ask 10 questions in a single paragraph bud.
Ideally you’d just Google them tho, would be waaaaay faster.
I don’t think they’re asking questions because they don’t know / can’t find the answer, they’re asking questions to you specifically to try and coax you into thinking critically. It seems that they have failed, but that says more about you than them.
And if they tell me where they’ll asking about, I’ll answer the first one.
But there’s hardly any context, I’d have to ask for clarification for every single question they’re “just asking”.
It’s a time sink, but I’d probably answer a couple if they kept it civil.
And if you think that was the Socratic method…
You might want to read up on it again.
They were completely civil, you’re the one slinging thinly veiled insults. Speaking of which, you should work on your grammar before needlessly insulting my intelligence. Your first sentence is a train wreck.
Welp, this is an easy block when all you’re doing is arguing.
Have a nice life champ.
Or you could take a step back, realize that there were at least three people in that thread pointing out where you made flawed arguments and consider the old saying about meeting one argumentative d-bag vs. everyone you meet being argumentative d-bags.