Patient Care
What Do You Think? –A Nurse Is Prosecuted For A Fatal Medical Mistake
No doubt you've seen the headlines about a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that was arrested and charged with reckless homicide and abuse in February for making a medical...
Best Practices
Nurse Scheduling Nightmares
How two clever nurse managers found low cost options to streamline scheduling.
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Latest Studies
Even The Best Healthcare Facilities Can Do More To Prevent Infections
Healthcare-associated infections can be reduced by up to 55 percent by systematically implementing evidence-based infection prevention and control...
Latest Studies
Words Matter
A new John Hopkins study found stigmatizing language in medical records may affect the care a patient receives.
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Latest Studies
Nurse Staffing Levels Linked To Patient Satisfaction
Patients' unfavourable views of hospital care are strongly linked to insufficient numbers of nurses on duty, rather than...
Because of Nursing Research: Helping Families COPE with Premature Births
Most expectant parents look forward to the arrival of a healthy, well-developed baby. A premature birth drastically alters this expectation. The parents will have...
16 Sure Signs That You’re A Nurse
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How Do You Know You’re a Nurse?
Here are 16 surefire ways to tell!
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When you show up to work on your off day for a...
Nurse Eye Roll: Post Operative Nursing Care Basics
You are rocking through your shift, feeling awesome because you kind of know what you’re doing now, and your charge nurse comes up to...
Clinical Research Spending Down 32%
Could the Sunshine Act be creating an unintentional downward trend in clinical research? An analysis of the U.S. government's Open Payments database shows that...
Watch News Anchor’s Moving Speech in Honor of Nurses
It’s not often that nurses receive the type of recognition they so deserve. That’s why on the rare occasion that they do, we listen....
Most Americans’ Hearts Are Older Than Their Age
Your heart may be older than you are – and that's not good. According to a new CDC Vital Signs report, 3 out of...