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Nurses rely on core values to ensure quality care is provided to patients, such as doing no harm, being kind, honest, and ethical.
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Several members of California's medical community respond to debate of nurse practitioners replacing doctors to combat the state's impending physician shortage.

A free, 90-minute continuing education program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers doctors, nurses and physician assistants the opportunity to learn best practices in improving care coordination and reducing avoidable hospital readmissions.

 

Oncology nurses at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey recently are improving approaches to combat fatigue in cancer patients.

New research has dispelled unfounded beliefs that travel nurses will jeopardize a hospital's patients' safety, making this temporary staffing option a stronger possibility to fill nursing shortages.

Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are debating bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all times.

According to a recent study, maximizing patient safety is the top priority for U.S. hospital C-Suite executives but "lack of teamwork, negative culture and poor communication" present barriers to achieve this.             

The challenging transition from nursing student to RN is often rocky and can increase employee turnover among newly licensed nurses, but transition-to-practice programs can aid in success.

The current median age for a nurse is 46, making necessary the use of technologies that alleviate physical burnout and strain.

Nursing schools nationwide are being charged to better prepare nursing students to deliver quality culturally competent care in America and globally.

With merely 6 percent of nurses represented on hospital boards nationwide, in a new book, "Claiming the Corner Office: Executive Leadership Lessons for Nurses," two nurse executives offer guidance for those aspiring to greater heights.

Nurses who provide in-home care to gunshot wound patients, domestic abuse survivors and others face similar on-the-job safety concerns as their colleagues who work in hospitals.

Driven by budget cuts and nurse shortages that force longer work hours, the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association is pushing for safe staffing levels.

Stephen Segatore, a nurse of 18 years who works at Tufts Medical Center, was one of several nurses and doctors who used their trauma experience to assist victims with missing limbs in Monday's Boston Marathon explosions.

Nurses helped design the new patient tower at Children's Hospital of Orange County in Southern California, which seeks to transform pediatric care.

More employers are offering nurses administrative promotions with better work schedules and benefits to retain them.

Patient transport, a critical hospital process that if dysfunctional, can waste nurses' time and reduce productivity.

Unionized nurses and Quincy Medical Center hospital officials in Quincy, Mass., are preparing to fill vacancies as more than 200 nurses who cite dangerous staffing levels, strike this Thursday.

Fall prevention is a challenge in any health care facility, although psychiatric nurses must continuously guard against patients' inherent risk for falls.

A flood of uninsured patients ushered in by the Affordable Care Act and a drastic primary care shortage dictates a wider, less restricted role for nurses to offset this looming crisis.