Today's Top 20 Clinical Leadership Articles
  • Highest-paying cities for nurses in every state

    Nurses in Santa Cruz, Calif., make more money on average than nurses in any other metro area, a Vivian Health ranking found.
  • Epilepsy care guidelines updated for 1st time in 13 years

    For the first time since 2010, the National Association of Epilepsy Centers has updated its guidelines for care.
  • Are antifungal creams leading to superfungal skin infections?

    Improper prescribing or overuse of antifungal creams may actually be making some drug-resistant fungal skin infections worse, according to a CDC report published Jan. 11.
  • How do care-at-home programs fit into your hospital's strategy?

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  • C. auris clinical cases by state

    In 2022, 22 states and the District of Columbia reported clinical cases of Candida auris, a fungus deemed an urgent public health threat due to its resistance to multiple antifungal treatments. 
  • Measles cases reported in 2 more states

    Since Feb. 1, new measles cases have been reported in two new states — Ohio and Maryland.
  • Flu hints at another uptick: 3 virus updates

    While COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus metrics continue to decrease, flu activity remains high and is rising again in some parts of the country, especially in the Midwest and South-Central regions.
  • Violence affects nursing recruitment, retention, NNU report finds

    Violence against nurses in the workplace is rising, and healthcare employers are failing to address it. The combination of the two is hurting recruitment and retention, according to a report published Feb. 5 from National Nurses United.
  • Surgical gloves: A vital strategy in the battle against HAIs

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  • States projected to have the most, fewest nurse vacancies by 2030

    Alaska is projected to have the biggest shortage of nurses in 2030, while Wyoming is projected to have the biggest overage of nurses, a registerednursing.org analysis found.
  • HAZMAT crews respond to incident at Nebraska hospital

    Emergency crews were called to CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy in Omaha, Neb., Feb. 3 after healthcare staff noticed a strong smell and became light-headed while treating a critical patient, according to a report from ABC affiliate KETV. 
  • Rhode Island's nurse licensure compact now in effect

    Rhode Island's entry into the multistate nurse licensure compact took effect Jan. 1, allowing registered nurses, licensed practical, and vocational nurses to practice in person or through a telehealth platform across participating states without needing to reapply for a license in that territory. 
  • The first 8 hospitals to attain Joint Commission's equity certification

    Eight hospitals have achieved The Joint Commission's new health equity certification, which the accrediting organization rolled out in July.
  • 1st county in US names loneliness a public health emergency

    California's San Mateo County has declared loneliness a public health emergency, making it the first county in the nation to do so. 
  • COVID-19 variants ranked by fatality risk

    The beta variant was the most deadly of all the COVID-19 strains that the World Health Organization deemed variants of concern, according to a meta-analysis published Jan. 31. 
  • Trials show early success of dengue vaccine

    Early trials for a vaccine to prevent dengue infections, responsible for more than 5 million cases and 5,000 deaths in 2023, are underway and showing success, according to data published Feb. 1 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
  • How effective are the latest COVID shots? Data is in

    The updated COVID-19 vaccines can reduce the risk of symptomatic infection by 54% among healthy adults, according to early estimates from the CDC. 
  • Security guard injured in shooting at Kansas City hospital

    A security guard at University Health Hospital-Kansas City (Mo.) was shot while escorting a discharged patient out of the building to a parking lot on Feb. 2. During a confrontation between the two, the patient was able to wrestle the guard's gun away from him and fired the weapon, injuring the guard, the Kansas City Police Department confirmed to Becker's.
  • Hospitals work to end stigma on med-surg nursing

    While hospitals and health systems have seen improvements in nurse turnover and recruitment since the height of the pandemic, many continue to have a particularly hard time staffing medical-surgical units. 
  • AdventHealth hired 7,000 nurses in 2 years. What happened next?

    AdventHealth needed nurses post-pandemic. Quickly.
  • The elective procedure more men are seeking out

    More men are seeking cosmetic leg-lengthening procedures to boost their height, ABC News reported Feb. 2.
  • How NYC Health + Hospitals doubled new nurse retention

    When Natalia Cineas, DNP, RN, joined NYC Health + Hospitals as senior vice president and chief nurse executive in 2019, her first major initiative was scaling the system's nurse residency program. Five years later, the program has grown to six times its original size and new-nurse retention has doubled. 

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