The charge nurse is responsible for creating daily nurse/patient assignments, which are informed by the location of the patient within a unit and the clinical judgment of the charge nurse. Assignments ...

Nurses care for patients at their most vulnerable moments. They work to understand each patient’s diverse needs, watch for subtle changes and attend to tiny details. It is a difficult job made ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) —An innovative tool is working to improve staffing and patient care at a local hospital. Nurses at Sentara realized that on some days, their workloads were uneven. For ...

As the nurse‐patient ratio increases, care quality declines, and nursing workload increases, a study published in the Journal of Nursing Management found. The researchers tested a discrete event ...

More than 80 percent of nurses admit that their workload makes it difficult to implement patient safety measures, new research has found. The most frequent errors that affect patient safety are ...

Four in five GP practices in England are now giving patients access to their new health records online, NHS England announced this week. The primary care access recovery plan, announced in May this ...

In recent years, technological advancements have significantly impacted various sectors, and healthcare is no exception. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of this transformation, ...

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports that a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association finds that as nurses' workloads increase, there is an increase in serious health problems among ...