[H]olistic care — the integration of emotional, spiritual, and social support — emerged as a unifying theme, especially in palliative and oncology settings. Factors such as leadership, staffing, work ...

Primary care nurse practitioners were found to use low-value care at lower or relatively similar rates compared with the general clinician population. Results: Prevalence rates of NP use of low-value ...

If you want to know about hospital quality, ask a nurse. A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing affirms a straightforward premise: Nurses are accurate barometers of hospital ...

The director of the national nursing research unit has called into question the worth of clinical risk assessment tools routinely relied on by thousands of frontline nurses. Risk assessment tools, ...

More than one-quarter of nurse assessment coordinators have limited on-the-job experience, potentially leaving providers at risk for survey deficiencies and leading to poorer health outcomes for ...

Good oral health is vital for overall health and it is especially important to reinforce this with children to establish positive health behaviours from an early age. In 2017-2018, only 58.4% of ...

To determine the reliability of an objective measure of pain, agitation and sedation using the Neonatal Pain, Agitation and Sedation Scale (N-PASS) compared with nursing bedside assessment. The ...

The impact of gender and underrepresented minority demographics on nationwide academic radiation oncology faculty promotion. A collaborator-engaged approach to tailoring strategies for implementing ...

To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) A nurse with a mental illness who is on ...

Nurse assessment coordinators are a vital part of ensuring a compliant physician certification process, even when they aren’t directly involved in the minutiae of that process. That’s according to ...