A new survey shows that nurses are spending more time on indirect patient care activities like paperwork, traveling to supply rooms and entering medication orders than in the past.One of the consequences of nurses spending less time directly caring for patients is that more than half of the nurses surveyed said they weren’t satisfied with [...]

A nursing staff with advanced practice experience and the increasing role of health IT are two prominent hiring trends at Penn Medicine this year as health systems look for ways to improve patient outcomes.About 35 percent of the 1,000 hires it expects to make this year will be nurses and nursing support, including nurse practitioners [...]

A sharp uptick in the number of young registered nurses entering the profession means that concerns about a U.S. nursing shortage may be a thing of the past, according to a new report in Health Affairs.Between 2002 and 2009, the number of young registered nurses (between 23 and 26 years old) entering the field grew [...]

A report published last week in Health Care Management Review downplays the importance of nurse-patient staffing ratios in the quality of patient care. But Linda Hamilton, two-term president of the Minnesota Nurses Association, maintains that those ratios are still the 20,000-member organization’s utmost concern.They’re what led thousands of Minnesota nurses to walk off the job [...]

In a country facing a nursing shortage and healthcare cuts, a recent survey published by Health Care Management Review finds a link between nurses who rate the quality of their physical work environment high with a higher rating for the quality of patient care.The survey, conducted by Maja Djukic of the New York University College [...]