Category: Nursing

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New York (June 28, 2018) — A study of home health care nurses in the United States has found that attitudes and organizational policies, rather than knowledge base was much more likely to lead to greater compliance with infection control.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Primary care is a critical piece of the healthcare puzzle because, for many people, it is the first point of contact with the healthcare system.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – After 45 years of working as a nurse on what now is known as the Mother Baby Unit, most of them on the night shift, Christine Dunmars, MSN, RNC, retired on…

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Finding creative ways to recruit and retain nurses at a Reno, Nevada, hospital led Barbara Hobbs, assistant dean of the SDSU College of Nursing Rapid City Site, to pursue research on the impact of shift work.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The addition of a nurse-led intervention for hypertension management to health insurance coverage was more effective in lowering blood pressure (HBP)

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The statistic alone can cause distress: One third of newly licensed registered nurses leave the field after just two years.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Today’s nurses have to keep track of so much more for patients than they did just 30 years ago.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A groundbreaking study of nearly 4,000 trauma patients evacuated from the frontlines in Afghanistan over a six-year period offers insight that can inform decisions on team composition…

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – “Stay Standing” is the title of Dr. Amy Hunter’s most recent research study, and precisely what she wants geriatric patients to be able to do.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hospitals and healthcare groups, including the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), will celebrate and recognize the essential work of certified nurses as part of Certified Nurses Day Monday, March 19.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Some people, it seems, are simply drawn to adventure. Uncertainty. Unpredictability. Take Damon Ramaker, a nurse at Mayo Clinic….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA & LONDON, ENGLAND – Satisfaction with care in hospitals declines when patients believe there are not enough nurses on wards

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – RICHMOND, Va. (Jan. 11, 2018) — Recognizing and rewarding caregiving work results in less emotional exhaustion and greater psychological vitality among nurses

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Critical care nurses who practice in healthy work environments (HWEs) report less moral distress and higher job satisfaction

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MORGANTOWN, W. Va.—“Find Yourself First.” “Don’t Be in a Hurry.” “Stay Connected to Friends While You’re Young.” “Treat Loneliness as a Thief in the Night.”

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Verbal abuse, intimidation, physical assaults and other forms of workplace violence are serious issues facing healthcare workers, and nurses are especially at risk.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ALBANY, N.Y. — Nurse Practitioners in New York are gravitating to areas around the state with the greatest healthcare need, according to a new report by UAlbany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – More males and people of color are entering nursing, and more nurses are earning bachelor’s degrees compared with a decade ago, according to a new study by NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing researchers.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The proportion of front-line nurses with bachelor’s degrees in U.S. hospitals increased from 44 percent in 2004 to 57 percent in 2013, but will fall short of a national goal to reach 80 percent by 2020