By Cathy Turner – Honoring Nurses Week – The good news is that these jobs can help improve patient care, while keeping experienced nurses engaged and practicing longer. Here’s a look at some emerging nurse positions that could benefit your organization.
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By Cathy Turner – It’s Nurses Week! Let’s talk nurses. It goes without saying that nurses are busy. Caring for patients and keeping up with documentation takes up the majority of their time and resources.
By Rebecca Freeman PhD – Care coordination is a key feature of evolving care models designed to avoid episodic care for patients. Currently, various federal programs that pay for health care services require a care plan as a component of care coordination.
In honor of National Nurses Week the personal-finance website, WalletHub, recently released its report on 2017’s Best & Worst States for Nurses. Find out where…
Each year the American Nursing Association (@ANANursingWorld) recognizes its nurses during the celebration of National Nurses Week. We followed Nurses Week events, news, and tweets…
By Terry Hayes – It’s easy for patients to feel lost in our healthcare system. Between multiple doctors, nurses in and out of exam rooms, tests, re-tests, a handful of prescriptions—not to mention the complex web of how to actually pay for care—patients can feel like they’re caught in a convoluted situation, with rules they don’t understand.
By Aparna Bala – Much of how we approach healthcare improvements today is focused on physicians. At first blush, this makes sense since traditionally they are perceived as key decision makers. But, it is important to remember that patient care is delivered by collaborative clinical team – including nurses.
HIMSS celebrates the positive influence nurses and informatics nurses have on the quality of patient care during National Nurses Week, held May 6-12.
Following #NursesWeek this Week National Nurses Week always starts on May 6th and ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12th. The week is to recocognize…