Healthcare workers in the United States continue to experience high levels of job-related stress and burnout, particularly among nurses in the frontlines of healthcare delivery. Burnout is an ...

Here are 12 tools that aim to improve patient handoff at healthcare facilities. Digital Nurse Assistant. Developed by PARC, a Xerox company, Digital Nurse Assistant is an electronic medical record ...

Huddle handoff communication tool helps nurses feel safer from workplace violence A huddle handoff communication tool, developed by an academic hospital, may help improve the process for addressing ...

Effective communication is one of the foundations of good nursing care. The honest forms of nurse-patient communication include verbal and non-verbal communication (e.g., body language, facial ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) and smart tools for nurses become part of healthcare’s daily routine, what does that mean for you, your role as a nurse, and the aspects of your work that matter most?

The charge nurse is responsible for creating daily nurse/patient assignments, which are informed by the location of the patient within a unit and the clinical judgment of the charge nurse. Assignments ...

The AACN's online tool can effectively assess the health of work environments across a wide range of healthcare professions and settings. Now a new study finds the tool has applications beyond ...

Communication breakdown among nurses and doctors is one of the primary reasons for patient care mistakes in the hospital. And since care quality is increasingly linked to reimbursement, those mistakes ...

Nursing and IT leaders told Becker’s they’re working to make their EHRs friendly for nurses by involving them in the governance process, consistently soliciting feedback and using the technology to ...