When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The study, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, is based on a survey of pediatric nurses at an urban children’s hospital. Overall, 27 percent of the participants reported burnout.

All different types of healthcare workers — from pharmacists to physicians, dieticians to therapists — affect patient safety and satisfaction, but nurses play a particularly important role, according ...

No one IT system is perfect for improving care, according to Ann O'Brien, R.N., director of clinical informatics at Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente. Rather, she said, continuous performance ...

The bipartisan legislation introduced by Congressman Rulli (R-OH-6) and Congressmen Stanton (D-AZ-4) and Pappas (D-NH-1) seeks to strengthen Medicaid nursing services ...

Engaging staff in performance improvement and patient safety initiatives is no easy task. It is not just time that is involved but there is also a definite repertoire of knowledge, skills, and ...

UPMC Williamsport used a bundled approach to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. A Pennsylvania hospital's quality improvement initiative led to a rapid turnaround in ...

Marybeth Sharpe ( [email protected]) is a program director in the Patient Care Program at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, in Palo Alto, California. The author thanks the Betty Irene Moore ...

Lara Goitein ([email protected]) is the founding medical director of the Clinician-Directed Performance Improvement program at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...

Burnout among nurses is linked to worse patient safety, and lower healthcare quality and satisfaction, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Aggregating and reviewing more than 80 ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On July 26, 2010, three nurses from the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, will arrive at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at ...