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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The objective of this work is to improve the quality of patient care in the admission office service of the University Hospital Virgen del Rocío (HUVR) by standardizing and systematizing its ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden announced reforms Feb. 28 to boost nursing home staffing and oversight, citing COVID-19 death data showing 200,000 nursing home residents and staff deaths from the virus. The plan, ...

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 ...

Seven Topeka nursing homes are among 43 in Kansas participating in a program to improve quality of care. The program, funded by Kansas and federal agencies, will provide staff training and implement ...

The desire to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes is both an aspiration and a necessity for the NHS, while pressure ulcers have long been considered a preventable harm. However, despite ...