Are you compliant? Up to date vs. fully vaccinated
By
Norris Cunningham
Angela Rinehart
Jun 27, 2022
Remember the confusion over who was eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine and when? Remember the confusion over the COVID-19 vaccine mandates? Remember the confusion over the approval for the COVID-19 booster...
Wait, what did you just say, CMS?
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Feb 15, 2022
Keeping up with the constantly changing guidance between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regulations would make even a rocket scientist’s...
No increase seen in CV events in elderly after BNT162b2 vaccination
Dec 10, 2021
No increase seen in the incidence of myocardial infarction, stroke, pulmonary embolism among those aged 75 years or older in France
J&J to ask FDA to approve its COVID-19 booster shot
Oct 04, 2021
Company has said that a second dose, given two months after the first, increases the vaccine’s effectiveness
Acute myocarditis rare after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination in adults
Oct 04, 2021
Incidence of myocarditis 5.8 cases per 1 million adults after the second dose; safety signal for increased myocarditis seen in young men
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy up for racial, ethnic minority HCWs
Aug 30, 2021
Vaccine hesitancy highest among Black and Hispanic or Latino health care workers; concerns include side effects, newness of vaccine
Requiring the jab or not – Mandatory employee vaccination policies and residential healthcare facilities
By
Heather R. Boshak
Nicole D. Espin
Aug 16, 2021
To vax or not to vax, that is the question. Or more precisely, if you’re an employer, to mandate employee vaccination or not. In a time when discussions of vaccinations are polarized, politicized and...
More than half of personnel at LTCFs fully vaccinated for COVID-19
Jul 30, 2021
56.8 percent of HCP are fully vaccinated, with coverage higher for physicians and advanced practice providers than for nurses, aides
Federal, state agencies begin to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers
Jul 27, 2021
VA becomes the first federal agency to actually issue a mandate
Compassion fatigue – the struggle is real
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jul 27, 2021
Not getting a vaccine isn’t just affecting you. It’s why we have this variant, and it’s why we all have to keep dealing with this. And it’s why nurses are burning out and getting compassion...