Articles Tagged With: nurses
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Labor Department Invests Millions of Dollars in Nurses
Grants will help address staff shortages by providing more funding for training, expansion, and diversification.
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Nurses and Physicians Find Ethics Consults Helpful, But for Different Reasons
Ethicists are challenged to meet the needs of everyone involved during an ethics consult. Now, ethicists can turn to some new data on how those differ.
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Nurses Feel the Squeeze of Ongoing Staffing Problems
National survey provides insight into life as an RN in 2022.
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New SBAR Method Improves Handoffs in Texas Hospital
A nursing team at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio developed a new process for handing off patients from the ED to a telemetry unit that improved patient care and decreased the number of rapid responses for recent transfers.
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‘Servant Leadership’ Retains Healthcare Staff
The authors of a recent report on the future of nursing concluded with this cogent point: “Simply put, efforts to train more nurses are futile if those nurses leave the workplace.”
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Loneliness, Depression Tied to Higher Risk for COVID-19 Hospitalization
Assessing psychological risk factors may be just as important as considering physical risk factors.
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Nurse’s Criminal Conviction Could Chill Safety Investigations
A former nurse was recently found guilty of negligent homicide related to a medication error. She admitted to overriding a safeguard before administering the wrong medication to a patient. The case may negatively affect safety investigations.
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May Is National Nurses Month
Leverage the many resources available to meet all your nursing needs.
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Efforts to Improve Ethics Education for Nurses
Nurses probably have heard of the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. However, these principles might not be discussed in terms of how they apply to nursing practice and patient care.
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Consider Risk Implications if Department Is Staffed with Travel Nurses
Nursing shortages are acute, fueled in part by surging wages for travel ED nurses. Unfortunately, travel nurses will not know the nuances of the EDs in which they are working. This hinders teamwork and communication. Thus, staffing EDs with travel nurses carries some potential risk management implications.