Viewpoint: Hospitals should value nurses as professionals, not pieces of furniture Nurses play a crucial part in patient care. However, many hospital boards view nursing as a cost, rather than a ...

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is working to expand an innovative nursing program into the system’s newly integrated Lehigh Valley Health Network region in Pennsylvania. In 2022, the system ...

Clinical and business leaders value the innovation and clinical acumen nurses bring to their organizations at most levels -- just not at the leadership level. Both clinical and business leaders rank ...

Regarding the Dec. 8 story headlined “Health care debate: `Real nurses’ vs. unlicensed aides” (Page 1): The value assigned to nurses in the health-care system has often been reduced to duties such as ...

Nurses’ value can hardly be overstated, and one of the ways they demonstrate that value is through the use of health IT. From documentation to predictive analytics and telehealth, the combination of ...

The American Nurses Association and other nursing organizations have released what they call a "first-of-its-kind study" showing the economic value of nursing. The study shows that when nurse staffing ...

No generalized statements regarding nurse practitioners’ low-value care ordering practices can be made due to limited evidence, indicating a need for further research. Objectives: Low-value care (LVC) ...

Oncology nurse navigators provide the “constant” in what seem to be undulating waves of changes to workflows, the adoption of new technology, the near-weekly onslaught of new drugs, and the need to ...

I never quite understood what “nursing” really meant until the past six months, when the supposed superstar doctor who operated on me in Phoenix (One of the smartest male doctors I know told me she ...