Nursing

Victoria Orto, RN, has been named chief nursing officer at 369-bed Durham (N.C.) Regional Hospital, according to a report by the Triangle Business Journal.

Seventeen nursing schools in Maryland will receive a combined $11 million in grants to improve technology and draw faculty and students to combat the state's nursing shortage, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal.

A new study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that the current surgeon shortage in Maryland is likely to worsen through the next 10 years, according to a news release from the FACS.

Maryland may license anesthesiologist assistants to provide care under the supervision of a licensed anesthesiologist, according to laws proposed in the state House and Senate.

A dearth of applicants for nursing jobs is forcing recruiters to try a variety of creative methods just to get qualified individuals to visit organizations, according to the Associated Press.

In a report examining inpatient RN staffing at VA medical centers, the GAO uncovered three key factors hurting nurse retention efforts. Conversely, remedying these issues could enhance your hospital's retention of RNs. Here's what the report found.

Surgeons are the least satisfied of all specialty physicians, "which is troubling because they are high revenue producers," according to a new Press Ganey Associates report.

Of the 14 surgical specialties listed in Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals, 12 reported satisfaction levels below the mean satisfaction score, and four of the five least-satisfied specialties were surgical. Oral surgery was the…

According to Press Ganey's Hospital Check-Up Report 2008: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals, physicians employed by their hospitals/facilities (20 percent of those surveyed) reported higher overall satisfaction (75.2 satisfaction score) compared with those who are not (72.4 satisfaction score). In…