Nursing

Two years ago, Intermountain Health leaders noticed a gap on both ends of the nursing career path: Experienced bedside nurses had no way to advance without leaving direct patient care, and nurses promoted into their first management role often wanted…

The American Nurses Association recognized patient blood management nursing as a nursing specialty. The June 17 announcement means that PBM nursing is an officially recognized specialty with a scope and standards document defining practice, according to a Society for the…

St. Louis-based Ascension is using three strategies to turn advanced nursing education into long-term retention. Nurses enrolled in school or who held graduate degrees were more likely to leave their roles, according to a recent study — a paradox that…

Ascension has identified four critical factors in mid-career nurse burnout that are often overlooked. Mid-career nurses, defined as those with five to 15 years of experience, are now the most burned-out group, a finding that comes as no surprise to…

Mid-career nurses, defined as those with five to 15 years of experience, are now the most burned-out group, a finding that comes as no surprise to nurse leaders. At about three to five years of experience, nurses become very comfortable…

Nursing workforce planning formulas may carry a structural error embedded since at least 1960, one that has quietly caused hospitals to systematically underbudget nursing staff across decades of textbooks, credentialing programs and government frameworks. The finding raised a pointed question…

The push to establish billing codes for AI-enabled clinical analyses is intensifying a longstanding debate over how the healthcare system values nursing work. The American Nurses Association is closely reviewing proposed federal payment policies for emerging technologies, but it cautions…

Nurses enrolled in school or who held graduate degrees were more likely to leave their roles, according to a recent study — a paradox that some systems are reversing with their career programs. The national nurse turnover rate is 28.7%,…

Nursing executives keep a close eye on quality metrics, patient satisfaction scores and retention rates. But ask them how many of their nurses were threatened by a patient last month, and many won’t have a clear answer. That’s according to…

The American Hospital Association voiced support July 27 for the National Nursing Workforce Center Act of 2025, a bipartisan Senate bill that would fund state-based nursing workforce centers to address ongoing shortages nationwide. The bill would establish a two-year pilot…