Nurses play a crucial role in improving the care of a hospital’s patients. As technology comes increasingly into play, health apps may be particularly beneficial to improve patient care. 1. Omnio — ...

Creating a safe patient handling program can help reduce injuries and time lost due to injury. Working in healthcare poses many safety concerns, including exposure to illness, physical injury, and ...

When Hurricane Ike unleashed its 100 mph winds that tore rooftops from homes and trees out of the ground Sept. 12-13, nurses throughout the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) used their ...

Then-newly hired nurse Kemi Reeves sat alone in her car, processing her first day of work. That day, she saw nurses managing very sick patients – patients who at smaller hospitals would be in ...

NEW TODAY NURSES AT UW HEALTH ARE EXPLORING HOW TO USE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE. TO DISCUSS THIS, RUDY JACKSON IS THE CHIEF NURSE EXECUTIVE AT UW HEALTH. GOOD TO HAVE YOU WITH ...

When emergency rooms fill with trauma cases at 3 a.m., nurses remain the steadfast first responders who activate critical protocols without hesitation. While most professions operate within standard ...

There is ongoing discussion about physician burnout and stress, but doctors aren't the only ones under pressure. A 2020 nursing survey found that almost two-thirds of nurses (62%) experienced burnout ...

Nurses do it all—advocating for patients, providing care under intense pressure and facing potential risks to their physical, mental and emotional well-being. Despite their crucial role, they don’t ...

Nurse burnout was consistently tied to reduced patient safety and satisfaction, and lower quality of care, a meta-analysis involving decades of data indicated. In the evaluation of 85 studies with 288 ...