Category: Nursing

Minneapolis-based M Health Fairview completed a pilot program for a newly developed immersive virtual reality capability in its nurse residency program.

At New Orleans-based Ochsner Health, virtual nurses are assigned to 370 med-surg unit beds to alleviate bedside nurses’ workloads. In the next few months, this project will expand to 600 beds. 

Nursing education must evolve to meet the changing demands of the field, but with limited resources and external hurdles like the COVID-19 pandemic, gaps have continued to persist.

A group of nursing leaders is calling for a significant shift in the way nursing is measured in acute and critical care hospitals to better capture the full scope of nurses’ work and its effect on patient outcomes. 

The American Nurses Foundation has partnered with the United Health Foundation to launch the Nurse Well-Being: Building Peer and Leadership Support program, which is designed to transform organizational culture surrounding mental health. 

Nursing is in a “transformational era,” leaders told Becker’s.

Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare is the only national winner of the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing’s 2024 National Certification Champion Award for health systems.

In late September, 133 nurses at Waterbury (Conn.) Hospital voted “no confidence” in Chief Nursing Officer Michelle Diaz, BSN, RN, and demanded her dismissal. 

A new Connecticut law provides home healthcare workers with greater protections when visiting patients, NBC Connecticut reported Sept. 30.