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National Nurses Day: How to Celebrate Nurses Day
It’s time to put a special week on your calendar! National Nurses Week is celebrated every year from May 6th-12th as a way to recognize the contributions that nurses make to the community and the v…
How Nurses Save Lives With Preventative Services
How Doctors and Nurses Can Team Up to Fight Moral Injury in Healthcare
To fight the environment that leads to moral injury and burnout, doctors and nurses must eliminate clinical silos and work together to make an impact.
How Nurse Innovation Can Improve Patient Care and Reduce Costs
Challenges in healthcare require novel solutions, particularly for major issues like surgical site infections, which exact a heavy toll on patients and hospitals alike. Being at the forefront of healthcare, clinicians have a unique opportunity to create and drive innovation solutions. Perioperative nurse Kim Haines, director of perioperative clinical services at Medline, is one example. … Continue reading "How Nurse Innovation Can Improve Patient Care and Reduce Costs"
Why Health Care Needs More Women and Nurse Leaders
Is there still a "glass ceiling" in health care? IHI President Emerita and Senior Fellow Maureen Bisognano reflects on what has changed for women in health care since she began her career and how far there still is to go.
Why Nurses Need More Authority
Allowing nurses to act as primary-care providers will increase coverage and lower health-care costs. So why is there so much opposition from physicians?
How nurses can help drive healthcare innovation
Ever since Florence Nightingale revolutionized healthcare during the Crimean War by pointing out that infection was killing as many soldiers as bullets, nurses have pushed the envelope of medical practice. But why, asks nurse entrepreneur Rebecca Love, are they rarely involved in the design of healthcare products and workflows? In this passionate talk, she shows why the collective wisdom of nurses, the frontline of medical practice, needs to be incorporated into every stage of healthcare design.
Why Nurses Must Understand Analytics and Quality Improvement
In my role as a healthcare analytics and quality improvement (QI) professional (and, now an Assistant Professor with the local College of Nursing), I find myself regularly in discussions with nursi…
How emerging healthcare technology is changing the workplace for nurses
There’s a lot of talk about how tech is improving patient outcomes. But it's having an impact on nursing too. Among the positives: greater accuracy, fewer staff injuries, and better information dissemination. @Enterprisenxt
HIMSS22: How Technology Is Transforming Nurse Workflows
Clinical communication and collaboration tools, EHR-integrated workflows, and hand-held devices help streamline work for nurses.
How a Nurse Leader Took on the Social Determinants of Health
Trailblazing nurse and recently retired CEO of a community health center reflects on her legacy of providing care that prioritizes the social determinants of health.
How Patient Flow Nurses Help Cut Readmissions
When she noticed RNs weren't always able to make patient discharge a top priority, Baptist Health Lexington's CNO created a new nursing position to improve the discharge process. The result has been a direct benefit for pay-for-performance indicators.
How Nurses Should Be Using Social Media
Thanks to a technologically advanced society and easy access to digital sources of communication, social media is becoming an increasingly effective, wide-ranging tool for nurses. However, with this resource comes great responsibility. As nurses navigate social networking sites, chat rooms, blogs and public forums, there is a dangerously thin line between professional and personal online etiquette. Health care employees must maintain patient confidentiality and privacy at…
Increasing Vaccination Rates: What Nurses Can Do
Nurses make up the largest segment of healthcare professionals in the US. With more than 3 million registered nurses nationwide, we have an unrivaled ability to reach patients, families, and fellow…
One small change: An ICU nurse on how to make Ireland’s health system better
Cijy Thomas argues that if you ‘mind your mind’ then other things will fall into place
‘Nurses and doctors were not discreet’: what patients say about hospitals
Survey of more than 13,000 people reveal both positive and negative experiences
How this hospital made nurses its key lean change agents
This hospital in the Netherlands found that giving nurses the time and opportunity to discuss problems together had the power to bring change about.
Doctors, nurses worry what will happen if their coworkers become sick
Healthcare professionals we spoke with say they’re being moved to provide critical care for patients, but they say their skills aren’t the right ones of the job
Medicine is Sick: Nurses describe why they’ve left the profession
Those who care for sick patients know the system is in crisis. But if medicine is sick, how will healthcare workers take care of themselves so that patients can get better? Over the next several we…
How I would end the war between nurse practitioners and doctors
Require primary care doctors and nurse practitioners to pass the same certification test.
