nurse
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PublishedMay 27, 2023
Commentary: Staffing hospitals at skeletal levels forces nurses to scramble
Nurses from Portland to Presque Isle have told me they are unable to either save patients’ lives or ensure they go home without any preventable complications. L.D. 1639 could change that.
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PublishedMay 4, 2023
Lawmakers mull bill to limit nurse-to-patient ratios in Maine hospitals
The legislation is intended to reduce the patient load for overworked nurses, but hospital officials say the bill would do nothing to address a shortage of clinicians.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2023
States move to crack down on nurses with bogus diplomas
States are acting in the wake of Operation Nightingale, a federal investigation into what officials say was a wire fraud scheme in which several now-closed Florida nursing schools sold phony nursing diplomas and transcripts from 2016 to 2022.