Spokane, Wash.-based MultiCare Deaconess Hospital is offsetting nursing shortages with virtual nurses and robots, The Seattle Times reported July 18.
Category: Nursing
Nurses protest name of St. Louis hospital
A group of nurses and community members demonstrated July 17 outside a newly constructed healthcare facility in north St. Louis to protest the hospital’s name, St. Louis Today reported.
Rhode Island enters Nurse Licensure Compact
Rhode Island is the 41st state to enact the Nurse Licensure Compact.
Massachusetts nursing program avoids shut down for now, pending corrections
The state of Massachusetts will allow Milton-based Labouré College of Healthcare to remain operational under warning status after initially deciding to shut down the program at the private college.
Chief nursing officers are frustrated. They also have high hopes for 2023
Chief nursing officers say they would love the opportunity to look beyond staffing to other initiatives in the second half of 2023. Unfortunately, despite innovative strategies to retain, attract — and, perhaps most important financially speaking, redu…
Urgent need for safe nursing standards, nurse-to-patient ratios: American Nurses Association
Hospitals throughout the country may be launching a wide variety of initiatives to attract and retain nurses and build future pipelines, but creating standards for safe staffing — including minimum nurse-to-patient ratios — is the top priority when it …
How systems can help nurses overcome imposter syndrome
Many nurses struggle with imposter syndrome, but systems and academic institutions can help alleviate it, Kimberly Pate, DNP, RN, director of policy and professional development at Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., wrote in a…
Life and death in the ICU: a night of heroism, tragedy, and budgetary battles
ICU: Our acuities were high, and staffing was low. Our ICU, with 24 beds, was already full. The staffing situation for that night was so poor that instead of our RNs having a 2:1 patient-nurse ratio, we were forced into 3:1 assignments. Despite the cha…
Providence Mission nurse crushed by tree in Costa Rica fighting to walk again
The executive director of nursing at Mission Viejo, Calif.-based Providence Mission Hospital was flown to Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colo., for rehabilitation, just over a month after surviving “devastating and tenuous” injuries in an accident in Cos…
Alabama university gets $3.5M to diversify nursing faculty
Birmingham-based University of Alabama received a $3.5 million grant to help diversify nurse educators, al.com reported July 3.
