Actionable and immediate strategies for staffing in acute and critical care practice have been unveiled by a specially formed think tank to address the nurse staffing crisis.
The Nurse Staffing Think Tank, a diverse group of nursing leaders, frontline nurses, CEOs, chief financial...
Check any medical exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccination that your facility approved before the CMS requirements for hospitals went into effect to ensure they are compliant, advised DNV Healthcare officials.
Nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic suffered overwhelmingly from "moral distress," says a new study from researchers at DePaul University’s School of Nursing in Chicago. The study's purpose was to qualitatively describe the emotions experienced by U.S. nurses during the initial...
The establishment of mandatory sepsis protocols at all hospitals in New York State is estimated to have saved more than 16,000 lives between 2015 and 2019, according to the New York State Department of Health.
The mandatory sepsis protocols in New York were implemented in 2013 following...
An autonomous robot commonly used in hospitals to transport medication and other supplies from room to room could be hacked and used to spy on patients and staff, according to a New York-based healthcare IoT security company. Cynerio announced earlier this month that its researchers had...
End-of-life conversations need to be a routine part of care for adults, a hospice expert says. Advance care planning and documentation provides guidance about end-of-life decisions. Advance care planning helps to make sure that a patient’s wishes on issues such a resuscitation are known by care...
CMS says it wants to expand COVID-19 and other infectious disease reporting requirements beyond the current public health emergency (PHE) as a way to stay prepared for the next pandemic. That proposal, along with a plan to improve maternal mortality, are part of the latest Inpatient Prospective...
