Nursing

New Brunswick, N.J.-based Children’s Specialized Hospital’s Kelly Marcoux, PhD, CCRN, was named the inaugural recipient of the Society of Pediatric Nurses Daisy Award of the Year in Pediatric Nursing. Dr. Marcoux, vice president of patient care services and chief nursing…

The American Nurses Association and nine other national nursing organizations sued the Education Department on May 29, challenging the exclusion of advanced nursing degrees from the federal definition of “professional degree” under a final rule that caps graduate and professional…

Becker’s compiled a list of hospitals that earned five-star ratings for nurse communication in each state, according to CMS’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data. CMS shares 10 HCAHPS star ratings based on publicly reported HCAHPS measures.…

NYU Langone, a seven-hospital system based in New York City, reduced systemwide nursing support staff turnover rates from from 14.5% to 8.4% in eight months, according to research published in Nurse Leader.  The system linked the 40%-plus turnover reduction to…

Nurses are less likely to leave when they have greater responsibility for patient care, according to an article published in Harvard Business Review. The study followed 430 full-time ICU nurses at a large U.S. hospital over 26 months. Researchers analyzed…

Four Massachusetts hospitals and universities are partnering to launch nursing apprenticeships. The program is funded by $240,000 in grants from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. They will be implemented by the Massachusetts Nursing Council on Workforce Sustainability…

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing found the District of Columbia has the most licensed nurses per capita, while Utah is the state with the fewest for the second year in a row. The organization created a course…

Most of the top-paying states for nurses, adjusted for cost of living, are in the Midwest or the West, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Becker’s used the latest BLS data, released May 15 and up to date as…

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (Pa.) and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center partnered to give UPMC registered nurses access to the university’s online registered nurse-bachlor’s of science in nursing, or RN-BSN, degree program. Under the agreement, grants and UPMC…

Adding a dedicated oncology nurse navigator to new patient triage processes improved scheduling accuracy and timeliness, and increased workplace satisfaction among new patient coordinators, according to research being presented by Dana-Farber nurses May 15 at the 2026 Oncology Nursing Society…