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...
How Zebrafish Are Helping Improve Bone Marrow Transplants
You read that right --zebrafish are helping reveal drugs that may improve bone marrow transplants. Using large-scale zebrafish drug-screening models, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital...
Project A.L.S. Spends 100% Of Donations From 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge On Promising Research
On the one-year anniversary of The Ice Bucket Challenge--an unexpected social media sensation that raised unprecedented awareness for ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease--Project A.L.S....
What Most Chronic Pain Patients Don’t Tell You
More than half of chronic pain patients in a managed care setting reported using chiropractic care or acupuncture or both, but many of these...
Personalized Medicine: Pharmacogenomics 101
Pharmacogenomics, the study of how genes affect the way medicines work in your body, is helping advance personalized medicine and allowing healthcare providers nationwide...
New Risk-Based Methodology For Reporting Diagnostic Lab Results
A major study of electronic medical records by researchers at Florence A. Rothman Institute (FARI) introduced a new model for reporting laboratory test results,...
Nurse Staffing Affects Patient Safety
Having well-educated nurses with fewer patients to care for can help reduce hospital deaths, a new NIH study suggests. The findings can help hospitals...