CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

Nurse scientists are gaining popularity in hospital settings, but many systems are struggling to find the right structures and resources to support ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing has launched a free, three-part self-directed online course for nursing and midwifery educators to help with the growing need for well-trained ...

Today’s skilled nursing facilities face many challenges in the delivery of high-quality and safe care for vulnerable patient populations. Significantly, the very limited resources available in ...

Quality Improvement (QI) projects require a series of distinct steps and timely data collection that will allow clinics to see if changes are yielding results, a consultant told attendees at a ...

Peer review: the evaluation of the professional performance of individual RNs by nurses with experience in the appropriate subject matter to provide a legitimate evaluation. It sounds simple, but the ...

In his 2022 executive order on nursing home resident safety and care quality, President Joe Biden “committed to building a long-term care system where all seniors can age with dignity, where people ...

This May, the Senate Special Committee on Aging released a report on the shortcomings of nursing home oversight in the U.S. “Uninspected and Neglected” found that nearly one-third of nursing homes are ...

A study released Thursday by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) shows that hospital quality improvement programs increase strain on nurses, aggravating an already difficult nursing ...

Minnesota’s Performance-Based Incentive Payment Program to improve nursing home quality produced greater quality gains in participating nursing homes when compared with non-participating nursing homes ...