Nursing

Implementing a Team Nursing Model: A Successful Blueprint for Long Term Acute Care Hospitals

Palestine (Texas) Regional Medical Center's longest-serving nurse is planning to retire in June 2023 after more than 45 years with the hospital.

Advocating for better working conditions is an especially challenging task for nurses, as they are battling a long history of sexism and false notions about the profession, Stephen Mihm, PhD, wrote in an op-ed published Sept. 16 in Bloomberg.

Some travel nurses who left full-time hospital jobs during the pandemic have no plans to return. But there is a subset of reachable nurses who say they would consider returning to a full-time bedside role if hospitals made certain guarantees. 

Several colleges and universities have launched nursing programs and partnerships to address persistent shortages nationwide.

Becker's has covered the leadership efforts of dozens of nurses who made headlines in the first eight months of the year:

The Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing has identified three health systems as the recipients of its National Certification Champion Awards, the organization said Sept. 13.

Hospital and health system chief nursing officers are focusing on nurse well-being and workforce retention as they head into the end of 2022. 

Here are four nurses who have made headlines for their leadership efforts on and off the job since Aug. 30: 

Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has named its first three recipients of a $20,000 nursing school scholarship.