Best Practices
Nurse Scheduling Nightmares
How two clever nurse managers found low cost options to streamline scheduling.
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Latest Studies
Study Finds Nursing Workforce Is Growing More Diverse And Educated
More males and people of color are entering nursing, and more nurses are earning bachelor's degrees compared with...
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
‘Mindful People’ Feel Less Pain
Ever wonder why some people seem to feel less pain than others? A study conducted at Wake Forest...
Latest Studies
Patient Beware: Researchers Diagnose Crowdsourced Hospital Ratings
Consumers can go to Google, Yelp and Facebook for crowdsourced insight about the experiences they'll have at a...
Breaking Bread With Colleagues Boosts Productivity
The team that eats together, works better together, according to a new Cornell University study. In research that could have implications for organizations looking...
Study: Burnout Impacts Transplant Nurses
More than half of nurses who work with organ transplant patients in the United States experience high levels of emotional exhaustion, a primary sign...
Researchers Identify Role of Soft Palate in Flu Virus Transmission
National Institutes of Health scientists and their colleagues identified a previously unappreciated role for the soft palate during research to better understand how influenza...
Implantable Wireless Devices Trigger, and May Block, Pain Signals
Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate -- and, in...
Too Much Foot Traffic In and Out of Operating Rooms?
A "secret shopper" style study by researchers at Johns Hopkins analyzing foot traffic in and out of operating rooms suggests that for the sake...
65% of Nurses Use Mobile Device at Least 30 Minutes a Day at Work–Do You?
Are you allowed to use your phone on the job? Do you use your phone on the job? If so, you’re not alone.
New research...