Remove 2020 Remove Bedside nursing Remove Communication
article thumbnail

Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

Nursing is integral to safe healthcare delivery, and the threat of a nursing shortage should concern everyone. When it comes to patient safety, nurses are the nervous system of a hospital. They sense, perceive, connect, communicate, and solve. Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age.

article thumbnail

The Nursing Shortage: Looking Ahead to 2023

Nurse.com

The percentage of nurses considering changing employers was 17% (up from 11% from 2020). down from 26 years in 2020). For every bedside nurse who is lost, hospitals incur $46,100 in cost. New nurses want meaningful relationships with peers and support from leadership. 2023 will still be a struggle.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

Safe, effective, and timely discharge requires good communication among the healthcare team, the patient, and the family. According to a study by Meo and colleagues, effective healthcare team member communication during daily rounds can help reduce length of stay by 21%. Confirm the patient’s pharmacy. Is the pharmacy open?

article thumbnail

Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

The issue raises the idea that nurses may benefit from having interventions implemented by hospitals to help decrease burnout rates and improve job satisfaction in nurses, therefore improving desired outcomes for patients. Nurses leaving the bedside may result in units being left short staffed. 2020; Romppanen et al.,

article thumbnail

EHR burden reduction

American Nurse

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, nurses have understood the importance of documenting interventions, patient responses, and data collection to improve overall practices. Somewhere along the way, though, nursing documentation has become burdensome. We need to change the narrative to support documentation and bedside care.

article thumbnail

Behind the Screen But Not Behind the Scenes: Virtual Nurses Provide Clinical Support, Additional Expertise

Minority Nurse

million from March 2020 to February 2021. Teresa Rincon, PhD, RN, FCCM, is a pioneer in virtual nursing. In 2003, she was one of the first nurses to practice from behind a camera as part of a teleICU. Virtual nurses provide an additional layer of clinical support to nurses at the bedside.

article thumbnail

Bachelor of science in nursing: What to consider

American Nurse

In October 2011, the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released the Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report, which called for increasing the number of bachelor’s prepared RNs to 80% by 2020 to help nurses address “the demands of an evolving health care system and meet the changing needs of patients.”