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Hospital-acquired conditions drop 17%

Hospitals are making “substantial progress in improving safety,” according to an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality report that found a 17 percent decline

Getting nurses on board

Trustee talking points The vast majority of the nation's hospitals and health systems do not have a nurse on their board. Adding nurses to boards adds diversity and a bro

Dousing clinician burnout

Slowly and surely, we’ve been burning out a generation of doctors and nurses. The numbers are startling: Over 50 percent of physicians report one or more symptoms of burnout.

Hospitals are Successfully Stepping Up the Fight Against Sepsis

Trustee Talking Points Trustee Talking Points Sepsis is a leading caus

Planning the workforce of the future

Trustee talking points As health care transforms, the health care workforce will have to change, too. Hospital boards should make workforce planning and development part

Nurses as hospitalists

Trustee talking points A growing number of small and rural hospitals, unable to recruit or afford physician hospitalists, are staffing their hospital medicine programs

Case study: Wisconsin hospital embraces NPs as hospitalists

When the independent primary care group that served Rusk County Memorial Hospital started referring patients to a competing facility in another community, the critical access hospital in Ladysmith,

Turning to nurses for design

In her book Notes on Nursing, originally published in 1859, Florence Nightingale stressed the importance of a number of environmental factors that are now understood to be critical to