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...
Do You Disinfect Your Steth After Each Use?
Do you disinfect your stethoscope after each use?
A recent study revealed that the contamination level of a stethoscope diaphragm after a single use is...
Our Ancestors Probably Didn’t Get 8 Hours A Night, Either
They stay up late into the evening, average less than 6.5 hours of sleep and rarely nap. College students during final exams? Working moms?...
Virtual Humans Help Aspiring Doctors Learn Empathy
For medical student Katie Goldrath, the first time delivering difficult health news came when she had to tell a young woman named Robin and...
Wireless Power Can Drive Tiny Electronic Devices In The GI Tract
Imagers, gastric pacemakers and other diagnostic and therapeutic tools could someday transform the way diseases of the gastrointestinal tract are measured and treated. But...
Can Virtual Reality Help Prevent Falls In The Elderly And Others?
Every year, falls lead to hospitalization or death for hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans. Standard clinical techniques generally cannot diagnose balance impairments before...
Skip The Soda, Opt For The Stairs To Feel More Energized
We've all done it -that moment during a shift where you are seriously lagging and all you can think of is caffeine, caffeine, caffeine!!!...