A system that required patients to use hand bells to call for help led to the death of a patient at Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital in January, Source New Mexico reported Aug. 30. 

Hospital and health system quality leaders are focused on quality improvement measures ranging from improving access to care to workplace safety as they head into fall.

The U.S. confirmed its first monkeypox death Aug. 30 as the virus continues to spread nationwide, surpassing 18,000 total cases.

The more SARS-CoV-2 antigens someone had, the more serious their COVID-19 symptoms were, a study from the National Institutes of Health found. 

On Aug. 30, California's Senate passed legislation allowing nurse practitioners to perform first trimester abortions without supervising physicians. 

The prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infections decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inpatient mortality and treatment costs went up, a study published Aug. 25 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases found.

Nearly 4 out every 5 children have evidence of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to CDC estimates. 

Standard surgical masks don't fully seal around a person's face, allowing for more participle exposure. But simply adding two rubber bands may improve the seal and offer N95 respirator-level protection, according to researchers at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor. 

Below are seven hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking chief quality officers.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued nine new recommendations on Aug. 29 for preventing patient abuse at the hands of clinicians. 

Health officials in Harris County, Texas, said a resident with various severe illnesses who was also presumed to be positive for monkeypox died Aug. 28 at a local hospital. 

Here are nurses who have made headlines for their leadership efforts on and off the job since Aug. 19: 

New details from a federal inspection report obtained by WECT News 6 offer a closer look at the safety issues that temporarily put Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center at risk of losing its federal funding.

Misuse of gloves may have increased rates of hospital-acquired infections during COVID-19, a report published Aug. 29 in Nursing Times found.

New York City-based Mount Sinai researchers have developed the first risk score to predict mortality for patients with atrial fibrillation who have undergone successful transcatheter aortic valve replacements. 

New York state confirmed the first U.S. polio case in nearly a decade on July 21 in an unvaccinated man in Rockland County.

While large pustules are characteristic of monkeypox, patients infected amid the current outbreak have presented with a broad range of symptoms, physicians told The New York Times in an Aug. 26 report. 

The CDC has detected polio in four wastewater samples from Sullivan County in New York.

National disease modeling suggests COVID-19 hospitalizations will remain stable through mid-September while cases and deaths fall.  

Several colleges and universities have launched nursing programs and partnerships to address persistent shortages around the country.