Nursing

A partnership between San Antonio, Texas-based Methodist Healthcare, Alamo Colleges and  TecMilenio University in Monterrey, Mexico, will educate and train nurses from Mexico in an effort to curb staffing shortages in U.S. hospitals.

An Illinois House committee met with healthcare leaders to discuss changing nurse-patient ratios laws, Advantage News reported Oct. 5.

Healthcare licenses in Illinois can take up to four to six weeks to be sent, according to The Telegraph, an Illinois-based outlet. 

The American Academy of Nursing has elected a new president and board, according to an Oct. 2 news release. 

Some health systems employ virtual nurses for administrative work and watching patients who are at a high risk of falling. Trinity Health is diving into virtual care with three-person hybrid nursing teams, according to Gay Landstrom, PhD, RN.

Creating a top-ranking nurse culture comes down to a few things, but the No. 1 recommendation is leader visibility and availability, nursing leaders told Becker's.

Cannabis nursing is now officially recognized by the American Nurses Association as a specialty nursing practice, the group announced Sept. 27. 

Since 2012, Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has retained 93.8 percent of its first-year nurses, and its nurse turnover rate is hree times better than the national rate. 

Three 12-hour shifts a week has long been considered the standard schedule for hospital nurses. However, many nurses can recall times they've worked far beyond 12 hours due to staffing pressures at their facility. 

Hospitals must ensure they are offering competitive nonsalary forms of compensation to help recruit and retain nurse leaders, according to the American Organization for Nursing Leadership.