Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 18, 2024

Cost containment is an issue throughout all of healthcare, and because of the nursing shortage, keeping costs down has become an even more difficult task. According to Gail Vozzella, senior vice president and chief nurse executive at Houston Methodist, the nursing shortage drives up labor costs and turnover costs in nursing.

Bedside nursing

Daily Nurse

JANUARY 15, 2024

Concerns of a nationwide nursing shortage have loomed for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only fast-tracked the profession toward crisis. Nursing is integral to safe healthcare delivery, and the threat of a nursing shortage should concern everyone. They sense, perceive, connect, communicate, and solve.

Retirement

Scrubs

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. “Bidirectional audio and video technology was installed and configured for each of the patient rooms and interfaced with the electronic health record to enable the nurse to seamlessly video conference with the patient,” said Sylvain Trepanier, RN, chief nursing officer at health system Providence.

Chief Nursing Officer

Nurse.com

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The nursing shortage has always gotten attention, but the faculty shortage much less so. Full-time positions for nurse educators aren’t the only ones sitting vacant, however. “The Efforts to alleviate the nursing shortage must focus on addressing the nurse faculty shortage as a priority,” she said.

Nurse Educator

American Nurse

AUGUST 30, 2023

The nursing shortage is as old as the dawn of modern nursing itself. Of the 38 nurses under the supervision of Florence Nightingale and who arrived with her in Scutari on November 4, 1854, three were gone by January 1855. Not auspicious data next to the ever-increasing nursing shortage.

Bedside nursing

Nurse.com

APRIL 4, 2023

Side hustles are conducive with nursing because nurses have a broad skillset and can take advantage of flexible scheduling opportunities. Let’s look at the top 10 side hustles for nurses. Telehealth has become a standard, and there is now a pressing need for virtual nurses.

Health Literacy

Diversity Nursing

JULY 10, 2023

As the Nursing field continues to evolve, here are some of the top Nursing trends to watch in 2023 and for the years to come. Nursing Shortages Nursing shortages across all aspects of healthcare will continue to increase in 2023 and for several years to come.

Travel Nursing

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This has resulted in a horrendous outcome of over 91,000 qualified applicants being turned away from nursing programs. Turning away applicants continues to exacerbate the nursing shortage. As a bedside nurse, I touch a few lives every shift.

Nurse Educator

Health Leaders | Nursing

APRIL 29, 2024

The 2024 HealthLeaders CNO Exchange wrapped up last week in Florida after three days of enthusiastic idea-sharing and elevated discussion about the biggest topics in nursing. Creative recruiting Recruiting is a huge piece of the puzzle, especially amid the nursing shortage.

Bedside nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

MARCH 11, 2024

The nursing shortage became more evident as large numbers of nurses left the industry or went to agencies, and academic pipelines were disrupted, Vozzella said. We have to be more intentional as nursing leaders and as we implement new strategies to hopefully unburden the bedside nurse of tasks that they don’t need to be doing.”

Work-Life Balance

Minority Nurse

MAY 15, 2024

These early roles provided me with invaluable experience in direct patient care and laid the groundwork for my future in nursing. After earning my nursing degree, I embarked on a career as a bedside nurse, specializing in challenging areas such as Burn, trauma, ICU, and ED.

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The nursing shortage discussion has been around for as long as I have been a nurse…. We were told in the 1980s that all nurses would have BSNs by the mid-1990s. The nursing shortage would end improving forever patient outcomes and we would all be happy and sing Kum Ba Ya. Will nursing shortages ever end?

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

APRIL 18, 2022

I saw a huge need in the wound ostomy field of nursing with gaps in several aspects of nursing in the nursing home, skilled-nursing facilities, home healthcare, acute care, and even with nurses (including Advanced Practice Nursing). The nursing shortage is at crisis level.

Nurse Entrepreneurs

Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Amid geopolitical conflict, financial headwinds, and ramped nursing shortages and unrest, there's a lot of healing that needs to happen. One solution that all the nurse executives highlighted to HealthLeaders: Virtual experiences on the floor and behind the scenes. Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of a two-part story.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Virtual nursing has also been a major initiative to improve patient satisfaction in the inpatient setting, McGinn explains. "To To address nursing shortages at our hospitals, we have been deploying virtual nursing to relieve some of the administrative work that is not patient-facing," McGinn says.

Patient Satisfaction

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 19, 2023

Bringing their clinical backgrounds and leadership knowledge to the table, they will improve communication of financial decisions that impact nursing practice and direct patient care between administrators and bedside nurses," he said. "In

Business

Nurse.com

JUNE 20, 2022

One thing that can ease the transition and help retain new nurses is nurse precepting, said Solimar Figueroa, PhD, RN, MHA, P-PCA, a clinical collaborator for the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement (AAPA). Preceptorship and mentorship are two different things,” Figueroa said. This isn’t what I’ve learned.’

Preceptors

Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As hospitals begin to address ways to meet the task force’s recommendations for recruiting and retaining nurses, some hospitals have emerged with alternative care models that could be easily implemented. Several medical centers across the country began a voluntary paid program called Helping Hands over the past year.

Bedside nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 3, 2023

We know we are headed for one of the most significant nursing shortages we've ever seen, and that is going to require us to figure out how to deliver care in new ways because we just simply won't have enough nurses to continue in our current models, especially as we look to having more and more patients requiring more care as the age.

Leadership

Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 19, 2023

Nurse Licensure Compacts (NLCs) may be “one tool in the toolbox” to help ease chronic nursing shortages reaching into every state and practically every health facility, says Nicole Livanos , director of state affairs at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).

Nurse Shortage

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A pipeline for rebuilding the nursing workforce Takeaways: Solving the nursing shortage requires creative recruitment strategies. An immersive experience at one hospital allowed students to witness the nursing role and its impact. The nurse residency coordinator served as team leader.

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2023

And we know that the baby boomers will be retiring, which will give us a nursing shortage. We know that more than 80,000 nursing school candidates are turned away yearly because we don’t have enough space in schools for them.

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