Nursing

Nurses Not Immune to Gender Wage Gap
A new salary report finds men in nursing earn over $6,000 more per year than women.  In a profession where women comprise 88% of the...
Hospitals Help Clinicians With 'Second Victim Distress'
More hospitals and health systems are creating second victim support programs to help clinicians cope after adverse events. A version of this article appeared in...

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Nursing Groups Partner to Address Nursing Workforce Issues
AACN and AONE join forces to advance new care models and improve nursing workforce readiness. Nurse leaders have several concerns regarding the nursing workforce. First...
Florida Nursing Program Emphasizes Primary Care
To improve access to care, a project at Florida Atlantic University aims to educate nurses in primary care delivery. As the healthcare system shifts to...
Nurse-Driven Initiative Decreases Falls, Saves Money
After implementing a new evidence-based risk assessment tool, SSM Health reduced patient falls by 30%. Profit margins, mergers and acquisitions, reimbursement: There's an enormous focus...
AACN Issues Practice Alert on Reducing Alarm Fatigue
Excessive alarms are a threat to patient safety. New guidelines offer strategies to improve alarm management. Nurses working in acute-care settings are all too familiar...
Nurse Practitioners' Primary Care Role for Rural Areas Hobbled by Practice Restrictions
NPs account for 1 in 4 medical healthcare providers in rural areas, but their potential to provide a full spectrum of primary care services can't...
Creating Nurse Resilience Programs That Work
To move the needle on burnout, resilience programs must be designed to meet nurses' specific needs.     Meredith Mealer, PhD, RN Meredith Mealer, PhD, RN,...
Demonstrators demand reinstatement of Oak Lawn nurse dismissed by Advocate
At least two dozen nurses and union organizers picketed outside a Walgreens in the Loop Tuesday afternoon to protest Advocate Medical Group’s firing of a...
Nurse staffing initiative petition survives Mass. court challenge
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that the initiative petition seeking to impose limits on the number of patients a nurse can be assigned to...
Nurse accused of reusing syringes at Cherokee hospital identified as tribal chief's son
The nurse who is accused of reusing syringes at Cherokee Nation's W.W. Hastings Hospital, which caused an HIV and hepatitis scare, has been identified as...
Kansas City hospital facing loss of federal money asked nurses to falsify records, inspectors say
Blue Valley Hospital offered employee discounts on weight-loss surgery and asked workers to falsify records to try to pump up its inpatient numbers enough to...
UVM Medical Center nurses vote in favor of strike
An overwhelming majority of the University of Vermont Medical Center’s nurses voted to authorize their union's bargaining committee to call for a two-day strike if...
BMC, nurses log two long days of talks ahead of planned strike
As night fell Wednesday, bargaining teams for Berkshire Medical Center and its registered nurses remained secluded in a downtown Pittsfield hotel, working for a second...
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