Tennessee has the most active nurse practitioners of any state per capita, while Hawaii has the fewest, according to a ranking from Kaiser Family Foundation.
Category: Nursing
Connecticut nursing school to close after failure to address compliance issues
Stone Academy, a for-profit healthcare college in West Haven, Conn., will close all three of its campus locations immediately after failing to address multiple compliance issues, according to a Feb. 14 press release from the Connecticut Department of P…
11 hospitals seeking chief nursing officers
Below are 11 hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers.
How to get nurses to stay? Less talk, more action, says AACN president
The widespread shortage of nurses is the result of a foundational crack in hospital systems across the country, Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, told Becker’s.
5 ways hospitals are giving nurses more flexibility
More hospitals and health systems are betting on workplace flexibility advancements as a key strategy to boost nurse recruitment and retention. In recent months, various leaders have talked to Becker’s about their efforts to give nurses more flexibilit…
California's mandatory nurse staffing ratios: Key lessons 2 decades in
Nearly two decades since California passed legislation mandating nurse-to-patient ratios, it remains the only state to have done so. For decades, staffing ratios have continuously sparked debate between hospitals and nurse associations, and have led to…
The ICU nurse shortage: How cost-cutting is endangering patient care
Recently, I read an article by an ICU nurse that discussed the disturbing trend of replacing seasoned nurses with inexperienced ones in the name of cost-cutting. This issue is not limited to the ICU but is rampant in every area of nursing. As a psychia…
Dartmouth pilots nursing hackathon: 'Shark Tank for nurses'
Lebanon N.H.-based Dartmouth Health recently gave nurses the opportunity to pitch solutions for issues they encounter on a daily basis as part of the health system’s first Nursing Innovation Hackathon.
Nurse viewpoint: Mandatory staffing ratios are the wrong fight
Mandatory nurse staffing ratios are a temporary solution to a larger issue and will not bring about the respect the profession deserves, Kathleen Bartholomew, MN, RN, a national speaker and nurse advocate, wrote in an op-ed for Nurse.org. Instead, nurs…
How Henry Ford rehired 25% of nurses who left during the pandemic
Job flexibility is at the center of hospitals’ and health systems’ strategies to welcome back nurses who left during earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic — and some are seeing significant progress.
