Archives

Nurses are considered the backbone of the U.S. health care system, but there’s an unprecedented shortage. The U.S. needs more than 200,000 new registered nurses every year until 2030 to [...]

As travel nursing demand subsides, hospitals are hoping they’ll return to the full-time workforce. Travel nurses made as much as $10,000 a week during the worst of the pandemic. However, salaries [...]

Men and women tend to take very different approaches to their health care. Women generally seek routine care for gynecology issues and childbearing. On the other hand, most men don’t typically [...]

According to a new study published in Medical Care, hospitals that employ more inpatient nurse practitioners (NPs) have lower surgical mortality, higher patient satisfaction, and lower costs of [...]

In the wake of a national inflection point after the highly publicized killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020, nurses have become even more activated to leverage the [...]

On Halloween, one of the most frightening things in Orange County, California was the alarmingly high number of children being admitted to the hospital due to respiratory viral infections. The [...]

Fueled by factors like employee burnout, an aging population and a dearth of training, states across the country are facing a familiar and common problem: a nursing shortage. Even before the [...]

Chronic staffing shortages and high labor costs were the biggest “pressure point” cited by scores of hospital executives across the nation in a recent survey from Kaufman Hall. While [...]

The American Organization for Nursing Leadership and the Emergency Nurses Association on Oct. 25 updated their guidelines to mitigate workplace violence based on the latest research. The [...]

Around the world, nurses are needed to work the night shift. Patients in acute, subacute, and long-term care settings require nurses to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Working at night, [...]