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...
Here’s Another Reason To Quit Smoking…
A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, finds that current smoking in older people increases the...
Bouldering Envisioned As New Treatment For Depression
A growing body of research suggests that bouldering, a form of rock climbing, can help build muscle and endurance while reducing stress -- and...
Do Occupational Factors Affect Reproductive Health And Chronic Disease Risk For Nurses?
A prospective study of more than 20,000 nurses aged 20-45 years, 88% of whom had worked night shifts, reported their most common health issues,...
Screen Time Or Story Time?
Pediatricians, educators, and parents have always agreed on at least one thing: reading to your toddler - early on in life and regularly -...
Should Technology Be Used To Boost Empathy-Based Medicine?
Should existing digital technologies be used to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than...
Long Shifts Lead To Nurse Burnout And Dissatisfied Patients
Extended work shifts of twelve hours or longer are common and popular among hospital staff nurses, but a study reports that nurses working longer...