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Engage with patients eye to eye

American Nurse

Jun and colleagues’ integrative review of eight peer-reviewed studies to assess nurse-led interventions concluded that nurse rounding, discharge follow-up calls, and communication education for nurses increase patient satisfaction. Health Serv Res. Nurse Educ Today. Women’s Health. 2021;50(5).

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2025 Commonwealth Fund Health Scorecard: What It Means for Nurses

Registered Nursing

It's a roadmap pointing to areas where the nursing workforce can lead change, especially in preventive care, maternal health, and equitable care delivery. Lowest-ranking states : Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and West Virginia These rankings consider both overall health outcomes and how equitably care is delivered.

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ANA’s Summary of $1.5 trillion Omnibus Includes Several Nursing Priorities

Capitol Beat

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program – The bill includes $13 million, an increase of $4 million within the total for Advanced Education Nursing to expand training and certification of RNs, APRNs, and Forensic Nurses to practice as sexual assault nurse examiners. Agencies Health and Human Services : $108.3

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Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Standards: A Good Start, But Not Quite There

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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The Value of Nursing

American Nurse

These were: Individual determinants Education Experience Nurses’ value Impact of role models Factors influencing individual determinants were age, gender, religion, satisfaction with the nursing major, personal values, and use of coping strategies. The essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education.

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Skin failure: A historical perspective

American Nurse

Frailty frequently is defined as an aging-related syndrome of physiological decline, characterized by marked vulnerabilities to adverse health outcomes. As we age, our bodies become more subject to frailty, illness, weakness, and morbidity.