March of Dimes recently awarded its 2019 March of Dimes Graduate Nursing Scholarships to three exceptional nurses for post-graduate and doctoral studies in the field of maternal-child nursing. March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit for the health of moms […]
Low complication rates for procedures performed by advanced practice providers Advanced practice providers (APPs) performed office-based neonatal circumcisions with results comparable to those of physicians, according to two studies reported here. A circumcision clinic led by nurse practitioners (NPs) had
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Expect more non-physician professional hires in correctional institutions When correctional nurse author and educator Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, was writing a book about nursing in prison, her publisher asked her who would buy the book. “We were trying to figure
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Fewer nurses on staff linked to increases in length of stay Ask a nurse and they will tell you that staffing levels matter. Now a study in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine supports that popular opinion, providing further evidence to make the case
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A nurse manager position is a career path that can be as equally rewarding as it is challenging. The decisions made by the nurse manager can drastically impact the staff on the unit. Attending important meetings, hiring staff, leading change,
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Two nurse researchers from the Columbia University School of Nursing have received a combined $3.73 million in grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a unit of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Amanda Hessels, PhD,
Many student nurses become enamored with Labor and Delivery nursing and the infectious joy surrounding most births. This specialty, however, is not without its challenges to effective care. It requires nurses to remain vigilant and current on the advances in
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The first step in improving Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) performance is recruiting nurses with a focus on long-term retention. The national turnover rate for bedside RNs was 16.8% in 2017 with an average associated cost
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Linsey Steege, PhD, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) School of Nursing, has announced a new study on nurse stress and fatigue, which will ultimately improve nurses’ health. Steege will use Fitbits to track the activities of selected
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Patty Piasecki, NP, is an orthopaedic oncology nurse at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. In the past, she worked as an orthopaedic trauma nurse. In that position, she says, “trauma” made it sound like she worked in the TV show ER,
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