News tagged with nurse shortage
Study finds nursing shortage may be easing
The number of young people becoming registered nurses has grown sharply since 2002, a trend that should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States, according to a new study.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Improving patient care by improving nurses' work environment
While nurse-to-patient ratios are widely recognized as an important factor in determining the quality of patient care, those ratios are not always easy to change without significant cost and investment of resources. What's ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Temporary ER staff poses increased safety risk to patients
Temporary staff members working in a hospital's fast-paced emergency department are twice as likely as permanent employees to be involved in medication errors that harm patients, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.
Aug 25, 2011 |
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US drug supplies run short, endangering patients
Monika McBride has acute myeloid leukemia, a life-threatening blood cancer that requires six months of intensive chemotherapy. Three days before her third treatment, however, a nurse called to cancel her appointment: Her ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 19, 2011 |
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California nurse staffing
In a comprehensive analysis comparing nurse staffing in California hospitals to similar hospitals in the U.S. over nearly a decade, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing have found that controversial ...
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Chief of national nursing group says ‘nursing shortage’ coming soon
The United States will see half of its most experienced nurses and half of its nursing faculty at colleges and universities retire during the next decade, the president of a national nursing association said Thursday.
May 27, 2011 |
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Keeping nurses on the job: Retention is part of the answer to the nursing shortage
A new research study, published in the March/April issue of the journal Nursing Economics, has determined what factors can help keep new nurses from leaving their jobs and - in doing so - save health systems money. When ...
Mar 30, 2009 |
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