Whether action on your part is required by law depends on the language of the Nurse Practice Act of your state. I reviewed one state's law (Maryland) and could find no requirement that nurses should ...

Researchers have found that sentiments in the nursing notes of health care providers are good indicators of whether intensive care unit (ICU) patients will survive. Researchers at the University of ...

Patterns of “optional” nursing documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) may serve as a marker of a nurse’s concern and could be predictive of a patient’s risk for poor outcomes. Our study, ...

A group of nursing leaders is calling for a significant shift in the way nursing is measured in acute and critical care hospitals to better capture the full scope of nurses’ work and its effect on ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have found that sentiments in the nursing notes of health care providers are good indicators of whether intensive care unit (ICU) patients will survive.