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How Health Systems Are Using Technology to Combat Burnout, Improve Nurse Retention
Nurse burnout continues to hinder the healthcare system across care settings. Hospital margins are thinning, and allocating resources to nurse retention and engagement is imperative to offset the cost of losing nurses. The average cost of turnover for one bedside RN...
Are the Robots Coming for My Nursing Job?
Throughout history, new technologies have always sparked legitimate fears that some jobs will be radically changed or eliminated due to innovation. The telegraph, the telephone, the tractor, the steam engine, the internet, robotics, artificial intelligence — each of...
Recognizing GI Nurses and Associates’ Work
This week honors GI Nurses and Associates Week, the annual tribute to GI nurses that the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA) has celebrated for more than a decade. Gastroenterology (GI) nurses treat and often diagnose patients who have symptoms...
Nursing Certification: Achieving Excellence and Professionalism
In the world of nursing, certifications and their corresponding designations carry with them the concepts of excellence, professionalism, and focused dedication to career growth. Not all nurses pursue certification during their years of service in healthcare, but many...
Behind the Screen But Not Behind the Scenes: Virtual Nurses Provide Clinical Support, Additional Expertise
Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. Since the invention of the telephone in the modern digital age, healthcare...
Happy Certified Nurses Day
Nurses go through years of hands-on training and academic courses to become a nurse and then excel at their profession. And when nurses find a nursing specialty that is especially rewarding to them, becoming certified is the next step for highly motivated nurses. On...
How Data Leads to Better Nursing: Improving Workflows and Patient Care
Whether nurses think their job includes data informatics or not, it does in one way or another. For almost any nurse, data is a touch point in their day, whether they work at the bedside, in an independent office, or a boardroom. “Data is critical,” says Andrew...
How Can Your HR Department Help You?
Nurses help people all day long. Whether it's a colleague who needs a hand or a patient who needs support, a nurse will evaluate what's needed and find a way to make that happen. But when nurses need something, they are frequently reluctant to ask for help. But a...
Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Barbara Bosah
Barbara Bosah, MS, RN, PCCN, is a highly skilled nurse manager in the thoracic and surgical intermediate care unit and vascular progressive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), downtown campus in Baltimore, MD. With over 14 years of...
Patient Safety Is a Nurse’s Top Priority
Nurses put a priority on keeping their patients safe and Patient Safety Awareness Week, which takes place March 10-16 this year, helps focus attention on this important part of any healthcare provider's job. No matter how much attention nurses give to patient safety,...