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A study found specialized training, an easy-to-navigate environment and staff stability ─ as well as adding staff ─ are necessary to ensure high-quality care for patients with dementia living in nursing homes.
Primary care facilities employing stressed and burned out nurse practitioners experienced increased rates of elder patients with chronic conditions requiring emergency care, a study found.
Transcendental meditation improved the well-being of clinical nurses by decreasing posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and burnout and increasing flourishing, according to a study.
The Nursing Community Coalition released a statement honoring former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, who died last week.
In a letter sent this week to Congressional leadership and to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the Nursing Community Coalition urges Congress to fully fund critical nursing programs.
The top three challenges facing nurse leaders are staff recruitment and retention, financial resource availability and workplace violence, according to AONL Foundation’s 2024 Longitudinal Nurse Leadership Insight Study.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement a 10-year payment and delivery model to improve maternal health care.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently urged nursing home residents to become vaccinated, following the release of research showing only 33% of residents were up to date with their COVID-19 vaccination.
Positive psychology exercises can improve health care workers’ mental health, according to Bryan Sexton, PhD, director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science.
Occupational safety officials are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to take its committee’s advice on infection control guidelines in health care settings, warning front-line workers may be at risk.