Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving documentation in nursing.
Category: Nursing
University unveils 18-month online nurse educator program
Too few nurses are going into advanced degree programs and onto becoming educators in the field, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This prompted Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind., to revamp a nurse educator program…
Threat of nurse visa freeze warrants Congressional action, healthcare recruiters say
The American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment is urging Congress to pass the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act amid concerns of a potential nurse visa freeze.
How 1 hospital 'Ubered' in extra nurses and recruited them as staffers
St. Louis-based SSM Health adopted a contract on-demand nursing model with workforce partner ShiftMed in 2023 to supplement gaps in staffing. Since then, the hospital has converted about 100 on-demand nurses into staff, chief nurse Jennifer Garnica, RN…
19% of staff RNs consider taking travel job: Top 5 reasons
Nearly 1 in 5 staff nurses want to transition to travel nursing positions, a survey of 7,117 RNs found.
3 years of flexible nurse schedules — how it's going at Bon Secours Hampton Roads
Bon Secours Hampton Roads (Va.) market has embraced flexible nursing with autonomous scheduling and float shifts between hospitals for years.
CNOs share post-cyberattack lessons
It was a Saturday in August 2023 when Pascagoula, Miss.-based Singing River Health System experienced an outage of its electronic health records and related IT systems. “You have to joke about these things as you move past it, but we called it ‘Red Sat…
WellSpan to open nursing school via new partnership
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is partnering with Jersey College to open a nursing school in South Central Pennsylvania.
Nursing doesn't look so glamorous on TikTok, GenZ is noticing
Not only does the nursing profession have a shortage, but according to Gen Z social media users, the career path also has an image problem, a June 4 report from ShiftKey, a digital healthcare platform for providers, found.
The balance between tech and staff, per 1 nursing leader
Like many healthcare leaders, Stacie Call, MSN, RN, is excited by the prospects of artificial intelligence. But she also is concerned about patient safety and evolving regulations involving the technology.
