As anyone in health care delivery knows, funding drives good care. Therefore, legislation affecting Medicare and Medicaid is always pertinent to nurses. President Bush’s tax cut, enacted earlier this year, was said to greatly diminish any budgetary reforms that would have boosted Medicare and managed care coverage.
That tenuous discussion about Medicare changed dramatically and permanently [...]

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By Phil McPeck
Ah, the stories LaRae Huycke can tell. Huycke, MS, RN, is a clinical nurse specialist with a keen sense for the not-so-clinical aspect of nursing, the people side of science. For her work with Medicaid patients and people with disabilities, Huycke was a finalist in the clinical care category of NURSEWEEK’s 2001 [...]

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“With our population predicted to grow and with an aging Baby Boomer generation, it is only logical to conclude that unless a statewide nursing workforce plan is developed - and soon - the demands for RNs will continue to outpace supply.”
Does South Carolina have enough registered nurses (RNs) to support the increase in staffing necessary [...]

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