Category: Nursing

Nurse practitioners are the most requested specialty by employers, AMN Healthcare found.

Addressing workplace violence against nurses and other healthcare workers requires a multi-pronged approach, and urgent action is needed from multiple stakeholders, seven nursing leaders wrote in an Aug. 23 Health Affairs report. 

When Gina Batterman, RN, was pursuing her nursing degree with the goal of working in pharmacy, her professors thought she was crazy. 

A chain of urgent care clinics owned by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum is reportedly laying off all nursing positions nationwide.

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists launched a platform Aug. 20 to support its CRNA members in making career decisions. 

Family practice and psychiatric nurse practitioners are two of the most in-demand specialties, according to Nursing Process.

Several states are taking on the debate of whether to prevent nonphysicians from using the doctor title, but nurse practitioners with doctorates are pushing back, The Washington Post reported Aug. 20.

The concept of virtual nursing is not new; it was introduced more than 20 years ago. But healthcare systems are circling back to it — launching innovative programs across the country that are fueled by machine-learning-enabled platforms.

If hospitals listened to nurses and acted on their suggestions, staffing challenges likely would be much less severe, Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, RN, president of the American Nurses Association, told Becker’s. But this is not happening, she said.

When describing the housing market, real estate agents often talk about “location, location, location.” In hospitals, according to many executives, the mantra seems to be more like “meetings, meetings, meetings.”