Nursing
Nurse burnout is often framed as a staffing or clinical issue. Data from a national survey of more than 2,600…
A cyberattack on the Alabama Board of Nursing’s online licensing system has taken it offline, affecting more than 80,000 nurses, WBRC reported Sept. 16. “Our number one priority is to protect the data of our licensees,” Honor Ingels, chief policy…
Windsor, Vt.-based Mount Ascutney Hospital and Health Center and Claremont, N.H.-based Valley Regional Hospital jointly launched emergency department and medical-surgical nurse residency programs. The inaugural cohorts launched this summer, with one in ED residency cohort hosted by Valley Regional Hospital…
Academic partnerships and the nursing pipeline: Lessons from Marquette's second-campus model
As the population ages and the demand for care climbs, health systems — and nurse executives in particular — face a persistent challenge: there are not enough nurses. In 2025, the national RN vacancy rate was 8.6%, and the federal…
Ambient artificial intelligence handed many physicians their evenings back. For nurses, the same promise is proving harder to keep, and the reason is buried in the flow sheet. Physician ambient scribes listen to a visit and draft a narrative note…
Janice Walker, DHA, BSN, RN, joined Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health as senior vice president and chief nursing officer in January, a newly created role built to help unify nursing practice and professional development across all of UF Health. Dr. Walker…
Phoenix-based Banner Health has cut the number of clicks a nurse needs to document a routine physical exam from more than 100 to fewer than 10 — without buying new technology. The change, going live across the system this month,…
On Sept. 8, the University of Rochester (N.Y.) renamed its nursing school the School of Nursing & Health Sciences, reflecting an expansion beyond nursing into interdisciplinary health professions. The change was driven by the school’s planned launch of a Doctor…
Call center nurses at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente say the health system uses AI to monitor how long they spend on patient calls and presses them to move faster, CalMatters reported in July. Software flags calls that run longer than…
Salt Lake City-based Nightingale College filed a lawsuit against the California Board of Registered Nursing, saying the board’s application of two licensing standards is unlawful and preventing hundreds of students from taking the NCLEX-RN exam. The lawsuit, filed Aug. 24,…
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health has achieved an 81% jump in new-hire nurse retention over the past year, alongside double-digit reductions in registered nurse turnover and resignation rates. The system’s first-year registered nurse turnover for beside nursing units with its virtually integrated…