Specially trained nurse practitioners help nursing homes improve the resident transfer process and reduce errors, recently published research shows. The findings come from the OPTIMISTIC project at ...

We recently reported on our Immigration Blog that hospitals and medical centers, facing challenges in staffing during the pandemic, content with heightened struggles to find and hire sufficient ...

As hospitals and medical centers continue to face challenges in staffing during the pandemic, the struggle is heightened to find and hire sufficient numbers of registered professional nurses. In the ...

A change in the way the U.S. government handles certain visa applications will likely discourage foreign nurses from coming to the United States, exacerbating a nursing shortage felt across the nation ...

Nurses frequently do not play a role in telling patients about serious medical errors, according to a recently released Joint Commission report. Hospital nurses surveyed for the report indicated that, ...

The day began like any other day as Mary Pappas, school nurse, opened her office at the St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens, N.Y. Little did Nurse Pappas know that she would soon become a folk ...

ANNAPOLIS — A law that took effect this year requiring federal criminal background checks for Maryland nurses has created delays in licensing health care workers, even as the state suffers a nursing ...