The study, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is based on a survey of pediatric nurses at an urban children’s hospital. Overall, 27 percent of the participants reported burnout.

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

All different types of healthcare workers — from pharmacists to physicians, dieticians to therapists — affect patient safety and satisfaction, but nurses play a particularly important role, according ...

Reduction in the use of physical restraints was seen after implementation of an evidence-based intervention program.

Association Between Genetic Testing for Hereditary Breast Cancer and Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy Among Multiethnic Women Diagnosed With Early-Stage Breast Cancer In this paper, we describe ...

UPMC Williamsport used a bundled approach to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. A Pennsylvania hospital's quality improvement initiative led to a rapid turnaround in ...

Burnout among nurses is linked to worse patient safety, and lower healthcare quality and satisfaction, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Aggregating and reviewing more than 80 ...

Marilyn Rantz still remembers the day she got the call that her mother, whose health had been declining, had fallen and fractured her shoulder. After rushing to the hospital, her mother told her she ...

Turnover among directors of nursing plays an outsize role in nursing home quality outcomes and should be better emphasized in government quality ratings, finds a new analysis. The good news, say ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

Graduates of the DNP Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Specialty are educated to care for individuals and families across the lifespan, lead quality improvement initiatives and translate evidence into ...