Topic
Nurses
31 published works
NY Disability Law Blog
Workers’ Compensation For Nurses In New York: What You Need to Know
Nurses and other first-line responders are the backbone of our medical system. However, the job is physically and mentally demanding, putting them at a high risk for workplace injuries. Thankfully,…
Health Law Blog
Major Nursing Shortages? Foreign National Nursing Intervention as a Plan of Care.
Originally published in Healthcare Michigan, Volume 40, No. 11 The nursing profession’s vital signs are unstable and require an intervention. The single largest occupation of health care workers is Registered Nurses…
Medicaid & Medicare: A Legal Blog
Hospitals Hunger for Nurses, Staff, Physicians: ER Wait Times Skyrocket!
Last week, I attended the American Health Lawyers Association (“AHLA”) annual conference in San Franscisco, CA. Attorneys must attend a certain number of continuing legal education (“CLE”) courses each year…
Inside Business Immigration
Schedule A I-140: Fast-Track Green Card for Nurses and Physical Therapists
Most employment-based permanent residency applications require the applicant to go through the PERM labor certification process where the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) certifies that there are not sufficient U.S.…
Employment & Labor
Hospitals May Risk Penalties with Use of “Gig” Nurses
By Erin Sutton, Daniel (Danny) R. Simandl
As health care entities around the country face staffing shortages, hospitals have started to turn to apps to fill nursing shifts. New apps allow hospitals to engage nurses as independent…
Healthcare Workplace Update
New York Enacts Further Regulations on Extra Working Hours for Nurses
By Jeffrey W. Brecher, Christopher M. Valentino
Under two amendments to its law regulating consecutive hours of work for nurses (Labor Law Section 167), New York has established monetary penalties for violations of the law and placed…
Immigration Lawyers Blog
Health Care Immigration: Alleviating the U.S. Nursing Shortage
The nursing shortage has been a persistent problem in the United States for decades, with experts predicting it will only worsen in the coming years. Many factors contribute to the…
DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
Strike by 15,000 in Minnesota a clear sign of growing crisis in nursing
The coronavirus pandemic has not only caused sustained damage to the U.S. health workforce, it also apparently has accelerated a looming crisis in nursing care, as has been shown by…
DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
Hospitals struggle to keep nurses, as nursing homes stall on staff shots
The U.S. health care system and all who rely on it may be reaching painful reckonings on how the coronavirus pandemic keeps affecting caregiving personnel, whether with highly trained nurses…
Buchanan Immigration Law
Recruiting International Nurses to Address the Critical Nationwide Shortage: What Healthcare Providers Need to Know
Across the country, hospitals and health systems have been struggling to fill open nursing positions for years as these professionals retire or leave the field at a rate faster than…