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A social media push boosted the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors 21-fold in a single day, Johns Hopkins researchers found, suggesting social media is potentially effective to address the U.S. organ shortage.

Eating more red meat over time is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to data from the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.

With multiple transmission methods, when norovirus strikes, nurses should practice immediate action-isolation and disinfection.

In some of Kentucky's underserved communities, nurse practitioners are the only health care professionals—and the removal of required prescribing agreements could meet even more patient needs.

Through a bill introduced this past December, New Jersey lawmakers aim to increase the number of nurses prescribing medications by eliminating the joint physician protocol.

The New York State Nurses Association is backing a bill to increase nurse staffing per patient at New York's 185 acute care hospitals to reduce deaths, readmissions, and to leave facilities financially intact.

Capnography, a tool commonly used in the operating room to monitor patient respiration while under anesthesia, is now expanding to the intensive care unit, in the field with first responders, and other patient areas.

Columbia University School of Nursing researchers will develop and test a web-based intervention to facilitate the health and health care management for Hispanic patients with dementia and their caregivers.

One doctor shares a patient case difficult to determine when to do something or do nothing—a skillset even years of education doesn't always provide.

Hospitals finding ways to help nurses relax, reflect, refocus, or re-energize is critical in helping them to prevent or overcome burnout, according to researchers and nurse managers.

In 2012, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health published a list of chemotherapy and hazardous drugs that nurses and health care professionals may be exposed to while administering patient care.

In 2010, Seattle school nurse Robin Fleming, RN, PhD, NCSN, initiated a club to teach teens how to be peer counselors and educators for those batting mental health issues—which is critical in Washington State where suicide is the second leading cause of death among 10 to 24-year-olds.

On June 12, National Time Out Day will be practiced in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers around the country to confirm that correct patient procedures are being carried out.  

A new Supreme Court ruling will now allow Iowa advanced registered nurse practitioners to legally supervise fluoroscopy procedures, settling a longtime debate over nurses' scope of practice.  

The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in West Philadelphia will serve as the national program office for the Future of Nursing Scholars, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded initiative to support nurses as they pursue their doctorate degrees.

A magnet hospital's pilot project encourages nurses to embrace care coordinator role to improve work efficiency.

During a speech about mental health awareness, Vice President Joe Biden said, "doctors allow you to live; nurses make you want to live.”

To meet evolving health care needs and bridge nursing skills gaps, more medical settings are pushing for nurses to earn their BSNs and embrace more decision-making and management roles.

New legislation would give Texas nurse practitioners more autonomy from their supervising physicians, with changes intended to improve the quality of care throughout the state.

The American Nurses Association's latest guide in its You! Series, Nurse Staffing 101: A Decision-making Guide for the RN, is designed to help nurses develop effective and facility-specific approaches to optimal staffing decisions and plans that enhance the delivery of safe, quality care.