A new survey points to a growing gap between job satisfaction and workplace challenges among nurses working in skilled nursing facilities, with certain ...

On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that will require long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to satisfy minimum nurse staffing standards with the ...

Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

The health system's use of telemedicine has saved more than 3,000 hours of bedside nurse time, supported by more than 16,000 ...

The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it's perhaps not surprising that ...

In two recently published manuscripts, hundreds of nurses reported delays in care, suboptimal care, nursing moral distress, falsifying of nursing documentation, and loss of autonomy to use nursing ...

Nursing continuing education (CE) is more than a license renewal requirement—it’s a path to career growth, higher pay, and better patient outcomes. State-specific rules, accreditation standards, and ...

Nursing homes are adopting standardized assessments, multidisciplinary teamwork, and digital documentation tools to create accurate, personalized, and compliant care plans. From MDS 3.0 evaluations to ...

The CMS is pumping the brakes on enforcing an Obama-era regulation that sought to improve quality of care and safety at nursing homes. Industry stakeholders welcome the move and said they need more ...