By Angela Hart for KFF Health News. Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for the KFF Health News/California News Service Collaboration. TURLOCK, Calif. — California, like much of the nation, is not ...

Strategies to help nurse leaders better support care coordination and transition care management efforts include knowing the patient population, leveraging the value of technology, and engaging staff ...

A team of researchers led by UCSF nursing professor Mary Blegen, RN, PhD, has launched a two-year study to measure nursing quality in acute inpatient units. UCSF’s study is one of nine projects ...

Registered nurses at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., will hold an informational picket on ...

For nearly 2 decades, only one state -- California -- governed the number of patients assigned to a hospital nurse. Recently, Oregon became the second. Advocates of nurse-to-patient ratios are hopeful ...

Conversations with newly admitted patients and their families about goals of care are designed to provide clarity and align ...

Hospital now operate with a 1-to-4 nurse-to-patient ratio. The move is meant to ensure all bedside nurses have manageable workloads and can provide safe, effective care for patients, the hospital said ...

The Saskatchewan government has signed 19 nurse practitioners to contracts providing publicly funded primary care services, ...

A former Arizona nurse pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a long-term, incapacitated care facility patient who later gave birth in 2018 to a child revealed to be the nurse's after a DNA test, ...

Indiana mother Mercedes Wells was turned away by hospital staff as she sought help while actively in labor, and the doctor ...

Kashena Manuel recorded her daughter's struggle during labor at a Mesquite hospital. She said hospital staff delayed urgent ...