Nurse Recruitment and Nurse Retention

How To Take Care of Nurses

Last week I had the honor of speaking at Hancock Regional Medical Center in Greenfield, Indiana. Their entire administrative team and even the Hospital Board is committed to caring for nurses!
One of the criteria for the Pathways to Excellence designation is work/life balance. Rarely have I seen a hospital so committed to providing that for [...]

Let Nurses Focus on Patient Care

To retain nurses in our profession, there needs to be a conscious effort to make the working environment safe and focused on patient care. Nurses want to be able to provide superb care to their patients.
If nurses can focus on the patient and not get caught up with issues that interfere with patient care, this [...]

You Must See this Pink Glove Dance!

A friend sent a link for me to watch the Pink Glove Dance. Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland choreographed a dance performed by employees, as a breast cancer awareness event.I was so enthralled with the involvement of every department…talk about employee engagement! When I called the CNO, Martie Moore to compliment her, she [...]

Recession or Not..We Are Still Short of Nurses

Despite the recession, most hospital executives believe there are still too few physicians and nurses in the United States, and the shortages will grow worse if access to healthcare becomes universal.

In a survey of 285 hospital chief executive officers conducted by AMN Healthcare, the nation’s largest healthcare staffing company, 95 percent of hospital CEOs said [...]

Nurse Get More Time at the Bedside

A three-year effort to improve the work environment for New Jersey’s nurses is under way, with 47 state hospitals set to participate.
The hospitals are participating in the Transforming Care at the Bedside initiative, to train support nurses so they can spend more time with their patients.
The training also is intended to increase retention [...]