The Nurses Improving Care to Healthsystem Elders program, which aims to add geriatric-specific resources to the nurses' practice, is built around advanced learning and nurse leadership. It could be an effective model for improving hospital quality and safety for...
Nurse leaders take heed: When the next staffing shortage comes, rural healthcare organizations will feel the pinch more acutely than their urban counterparts. The time for retention and recruitment is now.
Nurses at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center lead the charge toward reducing VAP and CLABSIs to nearly zero, using "very low-tech, cheap, easy, obvious kind of stuff."
While depression can contribute to lowered productivity and workplace absenteeism, in nurses the symptoms can also jeopardize patient care. The root of the trouble is that nurses often don't recognize depression in themselves, says a report from the Robert Wood Johnson...
Medicare patients at high risk for readmission are assigned a care transition coach, often a nurse, who helps them with medication, follow-up appointments, and problem solving.
As nurses pursue advanced learning and take on greater clinical and administrative responsibilities, many are making strides toward practicing independently. In Michigan, pending legislation would extend autonomy to advanced practice nurses.
While there were only 20 programs offering doctor of nursing practice degrees in 2006, the number grew to 184 last year. And an additional 101 programs are in the planning stages, according to data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
A corps of trained community members who transmit information between patients and nurses is saving money and reducing hospital and clinic visits, a study shows.
Taking its cue from the Institute of Medicine's landmark Future of Nursing report, UnitedHealth will pay for 30 registered nurses to get their master's degrees and learn how to be educators themselves.
