Among the endless number of decisions faced by those who run infusion centers, perhaps none is more hotly debated than what the “best” way is to assign patients to nurses. Over the last six years, my ...

Imagine you or your loved one is sitting in a hospital bed, you need something so you ring the call bell and … wait, and wait, and wait for someone to arrive. Has this happened to you yet? Did it ...

The National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety officially launched in September 2024, representing a major step in the federal government’s renewed commitment to improving patient ...

Creating a safe patient handling program can help reduce injuries and time lost due to injury. Working in healthcare poses many safety concerns, including exposure to illness, physical injury, and ...

The nurse-patient assignment process for infusion centers is a critical component of patient care. However, the manual assignment methods used at most infusion centers are inefficient, add ...

Like so many of my colleagues, I became a nurse because I wanted to help people. I do everything I can to keep my patients safe and improve their health. However, it’s becoming more difficult to ...

More than 15,000 nurses in Duluth and the Twin Cities recently launched contract negotiations with area hospitals. The Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA), who represents nurses with Aspirus St. Luke’s ...

Massachusetts nurses filed more than 12,600 unsafe staffing reports from January 2022 to July 2023, showing patient safety risks that can be addressed by safe patient limits Legislation requiring the ...

A proposal in Illinois would limit the number of patients nurses can care for at once. The Safe Patient Limits Act (HB2604) provides the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a registered ...