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Nurse leaders today face competing demands in quality improvement: mounting pressure to meet evolving regulatory reporting requirements, growing expectations to demonstrate return on investment, and the challenge of sustaining consistent practices across units with different patient populations and workflows.

Nurse leaders are working closely with finance teams while pushing for staffing decisions that better reflect patient needs and workforce realities.

Health care leaders share practical steps to improve visibility, standardization and accountability for peripheral IVs, which are one of the most common devices in care.

Empowering front-line clinicians to drive quality initiatives requires a combination of leadership support, structured processes and a culture of continuous improvement.

As the health care workforce evolves, hospitals must adapt to retain talent, control labor costs and ensure high-quality patient care.

The current merger and acquisition environment for hospitals and health care systems is characterized by a combination of financial necessity, strategic positioning and the pursuit of efficiency and innovation in a rapidly evolving health care landscape.

Ongoing development for nurses is essential to enhance their skills and knowledge and keep nurses up to date on advances in clinical practice.

Appropriate nurse staffing is essential across care settings, with unfilled shifts contributing to nurse burnout and adverse outcomes.

Hospital-acquired conditions, such as surgical site infections (SSIs) and complications (SSCs), are a major burden to the U.S. health care system.

Innovative Initiatives to Support Recruitment and Retention. Hospitals and health systems are grappling with complex staffing requirements, exacerbated by rising patient demands and financial constraints.

Tools and Tactics for success. Nursing leaders prevented hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) during the recent pandemic patient surges with a combination of teamwork, data-driven technologies and enhanced safety protocols.

Using technology to improve patient care and staff efficiency. Artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and remote monitoring tools hold great promise in health care. Some of these tools go a long way in supporting clinicians, especially during the pandemic.

The proliferation of new bedside medical devices and other system and technologies, including EHRs, smartphones, secure texting apps and more, has added new demands on nurses in the hospital. That demand has only intensified since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Sponsored] Investing in nurse education and development is critical for hospitals and health systems to successfully transition to value-based care. Nurses are in the position to not only participate in, but lead the transformation of the health care delivery system to one that is focused on team-based, patient-centered care across the continuum. This transformation will require new skills and enhanced knowledge around population health, wellness and data analytics, among other things.