Nursing
Nurse burnout is often framed as a staffing or clinical issue. Data from a national survey of more than 2,600…
CHI Health Good Samaritan in Kearney, Neb., has closed its transitional care unit after struggling to fill open nursing positions, according to NTV.
Law enforcement officials said a convicted murderer held a nursing assistant and a corrections officer hostage with a makeshift weapon at Joliet, Ill.-based Presence St. Joseph Medical Center Wednesday after the inmate was taken from an Illinois prison to the hospital, Chicago Tribune reports.
North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Mass., part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, is planning to close down its inpatient pediatric unit, according to a Salem News report. Hospital officials gave reasons for the closure at a Massachusetts Department of Public…
In a major step toward the recognition of advanced practice nurses' ability to improve access to quality care, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has changed its regulations to permit full-practice authority for nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and…
Ralph Henderson, President, Professional Services and Staffing, AMN Healthcare
Page West, RN. Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive of Dignity Health (San Francisco). As senior vice president and chief nurse executive of Dignity Health, Ms. West oversees nursing at 39 hospitals, yet still manages to add a personal…
The William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison, Wis., expanded access to outpatient treatment by boosting the role of its clinical pharmacists, reported Kaiser Health News.
Bonnie and Mark Barnes are the co-founders of The DAISY Foundation, an organization that recognizes the important role that nurses play in delivering thoughtful, compassionate care to patients.
Heidi Fisk and Jerremie Duncan married each other Tuesday in a ceremony in a unique location under unusual circumstances — Ms. Fisk was hospitalized, and the couple wed outside of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
A surgical physician assistant at Cleveland Clinic, Houry Gebeshian, made history this week.
Although the concept is not new in the US, the adoption rate of the Surgicalist Movement is becoming more prominent among hospitals, surgeons, medical school students and even patients.
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