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.
When...
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...
How To Handle New Administration’s Healthcare Policy Adjustments?
The inauguration of a new United States president is heralded as a peaceful transition of power. However, when a new administration actually takes office,...
Why I Hope My Patients Hate Me
That got your attention, didn’t it!? Now, before you fly off the handle, let me explain.
As nurses, our job is to improve the patient’s...
Survey Links Supply Chain To Patient Safety
How would you rate your supply chain process? Best bets this is not a question on the forefront of your mind while at work,...
The Role of Nurses in Increasing Health Literacy
As nurses, we tend to take for granted how much our patients know about their own health conditions. The truth is, many don’t know...
Music Is Medicine
Music is a true lifesaver. Once, after a really bad breakup, a friend convinced me to get up out of my misery and get on the...
Top 4 Ways To Calm Your Patients Before Surgery
Nurses and other healthcare professionals can attest that stress levels of patients are a major concern because anxiety has a detrimental effect on overall...