Hospitals are bending over backward to increase their patient satisfaction scores, and, especially now, as it may affect their ability to bill patients.
… Read more about: Patient satisfaction is easy. Talk to a nurse. »
Bravo to Theresa Brown, RN, for writing an eye-opening Op-Ed, exposing the dangers faced by patients when not enough nurses are on duty.
… Read more about: When No One is On Call »
A new exercise product came out this week. The Garmin bicycle pedal actually measures the force of each foot as a rider pedals his/her bicycle and relays power, speed, distance, and even calories burned to a computer unit on the handlebars or an enabled smartphone.
… Read more about: Technology is only as good as the nurse behind it »
MNA nurses march on the boss at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center.
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By Linda Hamilton, RN, BSN
It’s a great day for workers.
… Read more about: MNA Nurses support LIUNA Local 563 at Cretex Rally »
Next fall, patients will be able to report adverse events in a limited time. They’ll be able to initiate an investigation with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality if they feel they were given the wrong medication or suffered a negative patient outcome.
… Read more about: What if patients determined an adverse event? »
Nurses won’t be surprised to hear another study that finds health care workers suffer more injuries than in any other sector in the United States.
… Read more about: Healthcare workers continue to rank high on injured-on-the-job study »
Dear Brett and Judith,
The 20,000 nurses across the state of Minnesota in the United States proudly hail our courageous sisters and brothers of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association.
… Read more about: Letter to Australia’s nurses »
Nurses often take their skills beyond the bedside. They travel the world showing compassion for the world’s sick and suffering, spreading a single-standard of care for all people, and ensuring a just distribution of life’s basic necessities.
… Read more about: Don’t know how to save the world? Learn here. »
Recently, US News & World Report released its “Best Hospitals” list. What’s interesting is what criteria a national news magazine uses to judge what’s “best.” Link here.
… Read more about: What makes a good hospital? Really. »
Minnesota’s HMOs continue to bank huge surpluses. According to health care analyst Allan Baumgarten’s report, which was cited here by the Twin Cities Business Journal, health plans in the state collectively socked away $241 million in 2012.
… Read more about: HMOs’ piggy banks get bigger »
When the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Institute on Nursing Research released a study on the effects of nurse staffing in NICUs, it was a unique look into how nurse workloads affect non-adult patient outcomes.
… Read more about: Nurses not the only ones paying attention to staffing problems »