Older black patients are three times more likely than older white patients to suffer poorer outcomes after surgery, including death, when cared for by nurses with higher workloads, reports research from the University of ...
Oct 16, 2012
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Greater collaboration between ICU nursing and medicine could help to minimize ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), according to a study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.
May 16, 2016
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Standards of care in children's intensive care units come under scrutiny in a new audit report published today by the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester.
Sep 13, 2012
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The nursing work environment, nurse education, and staffing levels are independent factors affecting hospital scores on a key measure of patient-centered care—with significant implications for reimbursements, reports a ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Hospital staffing levels have been associated with patient outcomes, but staffing on weekends has not been well studied, despite a recent UK mandate to make physician specialist care 7 days a week a policy and service improvement ...
Aug 19, 2014
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When it comes to the cost and quality of hospital care, nurse tenure and teamwork matters. Patients get the best care when they are treated in units that are staffed by nurses who have extensive experience in their current ...
Apr 14, 2014
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Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, new University of Michigan Health System research shows.
May 20, 2013
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Forty percent of foreign-educated nurses working in U.S. hospitals and other health care facilities say their wages, benefits or shift assignments are inferior compared to their American colleagues, according to a study published ...
Dec 18, 2013
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A new study published in The Lancet Global Health showed that establishing safe nurse staffing standards in hospitals in Chile could save lives, prevent readmissions, shorten hospital stays, and reduce costs.
Jul 6, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic drew attention to the critical need to invest in our nation's public health infrastructure and rebuild local public health departments, many of which have been losing staff for years. Although there's ...
Jun 12, 2023
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