Category: Nursing

Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System and Montana State University broke ground on the first of five nurse teaching buildings being constructed thanks to a $101 million donation, the Great Falls Tribune reported Nov. 29.

Kentucky hospitals reported a slight drop in nurse vacancy rates this year, though nurse staffing still remains a core challenge, according to the Kentucky Hospital Association’s 2023 Workforce Survey Report.  

RaDonda Vaught shared new details about her criminal case and life since her conviction in a two-part podcast from “Nurses Uncorked” released Nov. 21.  

Forty-four nurses on the psychiatry and behavioral medicine unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital signed a letter requesting management’s support in curbing violent incidents they say have increased over the past few weeks. 

LinkedIn has added several new features to support nurses with job searches and networking. 

Fifty-five percent of respondents in a recent poll said their hospital does not currently have a strong nurse residency program in place, despite nurse leaders citing such programs as a key retention tool, particularly among new nurses. 

The American Association for Men in Nursing has named 13 schools in the U.S. as the top nursing programs for male nursing students.

The idea that nursing is not a career but a calling is “false and misleading” and may be an underlying cause of burnout and compassion fatigue in the field, Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, wrote in an opinion piece published on Daily Nurse.

Stress, burnout and frustration in the workplace have resulted in workforce trends such as “quiet quitting” and “rage applying,” and hospitals are taking aim at the issues that give rise to these movements.

In conversations about the nursing shortage, healthcare leaders often underscore the importance of building a pipeline by stirring interest among younger generations, and getting in front of high schoolers and middle schoolers. But is the industry full…