Nurses Report Satisfaction with Career Choice; Current Job? Not So Much
November 5, 2013 - After all the sacrifices and hard work, are you still happy with your choice to pursue a nursing career? (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - November 9, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Three Nurses Elected to IOM Share Their Priorities
November 8, 2013 - The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has elected
three distinguished nursing leaders--Susan Hassmiller, Beverly Malone
and Bernadette Melnyk--to join the more than 1,900 men and women who
give of their time and share their knowledge to improve the nation’s
health. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - November 9, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Nothing to Sneeze At: The 2013-2014 Flu Season
October 28, 2013 - As the peak flu season approaches, health care
practitioners and public health organizations are busy bracing for the
onslaught of influenza cases. Yet many hope that with increased
education, prevention and vaccination efforts, we may be able to see a
milder 2013-2014 U.S. flu season than we have experienced in the past. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - October 31, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Maryland Becomes Second State to Adopt Nurse Residency Collaborative
October 29, 2013 - The UHC/AACN Nurse Residency Program,
developed jointly by UHC and the American Association of Colleges of
Nursing, has been selected to implement the program's curriculum in
Maryland's new statewide nurse residency collaborative. Maryland is the
second state in the country to create such a collaborative. UHC will
support the lead agency, the Maryland Organization of Nurse Executives
(MONE), to provide in-hospital training to help first-year nurses
transition from the classroom to the bedside. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - October 31, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
New President-Elect Named for the American Academy of Nursing
October 30, 2013 - Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of
Columbia University School of Nursing and senior vice-president of the
Columbia University Medical Center, has become the American Academy of
Nursing’s president-elect, it was announced at the Academy’s annual
policy conference in Washington, DC. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - October 31, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Joint Commission Alert: Preventing Retained Surgical Items
October 22, 2013 - The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert
urging hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers to take a new look at
how to avoid mistakenly leaving items such as sponges, towels and
instruments in a patient’s body after surgery. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - October 27, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Nurses at the Forefront of Health Exchange Information
October 17, 2013 - With a high degree of national attention
focused on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the October 1, 2013,
opening of the health insurance marketplaces, many nurses are fielding
questions from patients and volunteering to educate the general public. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - October 18, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Study Finds Quality Care and Patient Satisfaction Metrics Differ
October 4, 2013 - Despite healthcare providers’ push in recent years to improve patient satisfaction scores, these scores may not be the best way to evaluate care and good clinical outcomes, according to a new study from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. The research team refined the PRIDIT statistical methodology, originally used in fraud detection, to determine hospital quality. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - October 9, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Nurse Practitioners Increasingly Focused on Promoting Patient Adherence, Study Finds
September 18, 2013 - With physicians already in short supply and millions of uninsured Americans set to enter the healthcare system as the Affordable Care Act takes effect, nurses and physician assistants are stepping up to fill the gap. Nurse practitioners (NPs), in particular, are taking a central role in helping patients stay on therapy, according to Manhattan Research’s Taking the Pulse® Nurses 2013 study. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - September 21, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
AONE Survey Looks at the Upper End of the Nursing Pay Scale
September 12, 2013 - Nurse leaders report high job satisfaction, but are not as happy about their benefits and compensation, according to the American Organization of Nurse Executives’ 2013 AONE Salary and Compensation Study. Their comments were made despite the fact that these leaders reported earning an average annual salary of $100,000-$130,000, and some earn two or three times that amount. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - September 16, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Campaign Launched to Improve Quality of Veterans’ Healthcare
September 10, 2013 - "Have you ever served in the military?" is a simple but very important question that nurses and other healthcare providers will now be asking their patients. Military service members may have been exposed to environments that could lead to adverse health risks--risks that healthcare providers need to know to serve veterans better. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - September 12, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
National Clinical Nurse Specialists Recognition Week, Sept. 1-7
September 3, 2013 - Clinical nurse specialists (CNS) play a unique and important role in ensuring that patients receive high quality care based on the best and most recent research evidence. This crucial role is the focus of the fifth annual National CNS Recognition Week, September 1 – 7. Across the country, hospitals and health care systems are holding a variety of events to increase awareness of the CNS’s role in improving care and reducing health care costs, including presentations to hospital and health system staff, town meetings on health reform, community forums, health fairs and more. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - September 7, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Fellowship Program Improves New Nurse Retention, Nets Savings
August 30, 2013 - Why do new nurses often leave their jobs in the first year? And what can be done to keep their careers on track, improve nurse retention and keep the costly issue of turnover in check? (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - August 30, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Fetal Heart Monitoring Instructors Recognized by AWHONN
August 22, 2013 - The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) has awarded four recipients with the Fetal Heart Monitoring Instructor Recognition Award for the first quarter of 2013. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - August 27, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Prevention of Needlestick Injuries Can Save More than $1 Billion a Year
August 26, 2013 - Needlestick and sharps injuries affect more than half a million healthcare personnel every year, creating over $1 billion in preventable healthcare costs and an immeasurable emotional toll on millions of healthcare personnel, according to a Safe in Common review of U.S. healthcare industry statistics. (Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News)
Source: NurseZone.com Nursing News - August 27, 2013 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
