The potential of nurse practitioners is not being fully realized in primary care medical practices. Consequently, cost and quality gains are not being achieved. Objectives: The employment of more ...

Specialized nurses are first-line defenders against infection and diseases. Like the wider health care industry, the nursing profession is continually changing in response to medical needs. We see ...

Last month’s peer-reviewed study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that 36.1% of nursing homes did not report any medical director hours in the Payroll Based Journal. If this ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Caring for the individual with kidney disease is a team effort, and nephrology nurses have been a big part of ...

Advocate Health recently reimagined the role of nurse managers, said Jane Dus, DNP, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer of the system’s Midwest region. Nurse managers are often ...

That role was founded on the principles of the extended role of specialist nurses, but also openly incorporated traditional medical diagnostic skills. Marchione and Garland (1980) said the need for ...

Strategies to help nurse leaders better support care coordination and transition care management efforts include knowing the patient population, leveraging the value of technology, and engaging staff ...

As the reality of the nation's shortage of primary-care physicians sinks in, a growing number of states are looking beyond the daunting task of finding more physicians and considering the roles of ...

The California Department of Public Health, which has long been criticized for failing to properly regulate nursing homes, is now considering an overhaul of its inspection program that advocates say ...

The students trickled in slowly at first. There was a young girl, cold and fatigued, looking for a place to rest. Then came another child, who needed assistance with his inhaler. The third was, ...