The healthcare field is rapidly evolving, and the demands for improved patient outcomes, increased efficiency, and advanced ...

Hospitals often attempt to boost morale with surface-level gestures such as pizza parties, gift cards or incentive bonuses, ...

“Quality improvement is the systematic approach that is guided by data to improve the quality and safety of healthcare delivery,” said Dr. Debra Sowell, DNP, RN, clinical faculty in graduate nursing ...

Nurses and midwives have presented the conclusions of dozens of quality improvement projects that they led as part of a scheme to prepare them for senior leadership. Support for rural advanced ...

In his 2022 executive order on nursing home resident safety and care quality, President Joe Biden “committed to building a long-term care system where all seniors can age with dignity, where ...

Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient care. Lessons from Magnet program hospitals and hospitals implementing front-line staff–driven performance improvement programs ...

CMS' staffing mandate and excessive civil money penalties are a pair of major regulatory pain points that leading provider ...

Nursing home quality is in such flux in the US that more than a quarter of 5-star rated facilities later slid to the lowest ...

The nursing professor has been honored for significant contributions to cardiovascular and stroke research and clinical ...

told MedPage Today by email that "despite decades of organizational and national quality improvement efforts, the association between nurse burnout and quality of care has become more negative ...

"By prioritizing education and quality improvement, we ensure that staff members are fully prepared to provide exceptional care to residents." The skilled nursing facility quality improvement ...

The 78% of nurses dismayed by care quality actually reflects improvement — the rate peaked at 85% in the spring of 2023 — but remains above pre-pandemic levels. In April 2019, 39% of nurses ...