Creating a Culture of Health Nurses, like everyone else, are subject to health problems. In fact, they may be more prone to health problems, given their long hours, shift work, odd eating patterns and high stress levels. According to an article from Nurse.com, many healthcare institutions are search...
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Staffing Levels and Patient Risk Andrew Gentry/ Fotolia Higher nurse workloads due to inadequate staffing have a direct impact on patient outcomes after surgery, a new study has found. The large-scale study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing showed that higher nurse workloads nega...
Read more →Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and Penalties Alexander Raths/ Fotolia California has a strict nurse-to-patient ratio law, but since there haven't really been any penalties for failing to adhere to it, the law has been hard to enforce. A measure to give the department of public health more authority to crac...
Read more →Strategies to Improve Medication Safety VILevi/ Fotolia Consider the following scenario: It is a typical busy morning on the ward. The unit is full to capacity. One of the nurses called in sick prior to the beginning of the shift, and thus far no replacement has been found. The other nurses have had...
Read more →Increasing Need for Case Managers Rob/ Fotolia The role of the case manager in home care is taking on greater importance and urgency, according to this article on Nurse.com. The Affordable Care Act is a big part of why, as it requires a greater level of coordination with its measures to control cost...
Read more →Managers and Evidence-Based Care Are nurses at the manager level barriers to the implementation of nursing care based on best practice? A survey published in the Journal of Nursing Administration seems to suggest so. The survey, which was answered by 1,015 American Nurses Association members, found...
Read more →MSN Careers There has been more and more emphasis on increased education for nurses. It's becoming increasingly common for employers to require that nurses go back to school to receive more education. Nurses are also calling for their peers to gain more education as a way to make their voices heard....
Read more →Edie Layland – Fotolia.com Nurses Branch Out More than 120,000 nurses now work outside the profession, according to Florida Today. While this might seem like a problem, especially against the background of the nursing shortage, nurses in Florida don’t see it that way. The expansion of the field beyo...
Read more →Reducing Nurse Burnout to Improve Patient Care Junial Enterprises – Fotolia.com When nurses are happier and healthier, their patients have better medical outcomes. So it makes sense that the opposite is true as well — that unhappy, burned-out nurses have patients who are at higher risk for health-ca...
Read more →dekanaryas – Fotolia.com Nurse Residency Program Makes Stronger Nurses New nurses in their first orientation program can expect to learn routines that are specific to their employer, and the policies and procedures associated with their job. They will check off competencies and compliance as they co...
Read more →More Ohio Nurses Seeking 4-Year Degrees There has been a 76% increase since 2007 in the number of registered nurses who are in bachelor’s of science degree programs nationwide, according to this article in the Columbus Dispatch, citing numbers from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. In...
Read more →Examining the Nursing Shortage Yuri Arcurs – Fotolia.com For years, we heard that a nursing shortage was imminent, projected to reach monumental proportions by the second to third decade of the new millennium and threatening to bring the U.S. healthcare system to its knees. However, many feel that t...
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