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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal bill would set specific minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for every hospital unit and provide support for best practices research, whistleblower protections, and education loan repayment and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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