With the emergence of healthcare support staff, the boundaries of the role of registered nurses have been blurred. Often healthcare workers are now allocated tasks that were once the responsibility of ...

Newly qualified nurses may lack confidence when they transition from student to registered status. This article, part 1 in a three-part series on skills for newly qualified nurses explains ...

This article appears in the July 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. In northeastern Indiana, about 15 miles west of Fort Wayne, sits the 30-bed community hospital Parkview Whitley in Columbia City.

Just last year, the for-profit nursing home Princeton Care Center’s abrupt and chaotic 24-hour shutdown disrupted, displaced, and, in some cases, traumatized the lives of 72 nursing home residents and ...