The Critical Need For Nurses To Play An Active Role In AI Implementation
For nursing to shape its future in an AI-driven world, its leaders and practitioners must be present, informed, and engaged in every step of its development and deployment.
The Critical Link: How Supporting Nurse Managers Can Help Nurses — And Improve Healthcare
By supporting managers, healthcare organizations can make the workplace better for nurses. That could not only improve retention but build a pipeline of nurse managers.
NEMT Partner Guide: Why Payers and Providers Should Choose MediDrive’s TMS
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
Nursing Exodus Continues: 4 in 10 Plan to Leave by 2029
The country’s nursing workforce has seen slight recovery since the pandemic, but burnout and stress continue to fuel high levels of turnover. New research reveals troubling retention trends — with more than 138,000 nurses having left the workforce since 2022 and 40% of nurses planning to leave the profession within five years.
This Hospital Exec Wants Nurses to Join the Ambient Listening Party Too
Lavonia Thomas, nursing informatics officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, hopes that nurses will gain more access to ambient listening tools that listen in on patient conversations and then generate summaries for documentation purposes. These AI tools have become popular among physicians in the past couple years.
The Nurse as Designer: Breaking Down Barriers with Clinician-Center Innovation
Integrating nursing expertise into technology design, development, and implementation fosters early user support, establishes credibility with the technology, and leads to significantly better usage across the organization, avoiding the creation of process workarounds.
MedCity Moves Podcast: Recent Hires, Layoffs & an Interview with Claire Zangerle, the American Hospital Association’s New Chief Nurse Executive
In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams discussed some of the executive moves, exits and layoffs that occurred recently in the healthcare sector. She also interviewed Claire Zangerle, who was appointed as chief nurse executive of the American Hospital Association, as well as CEO of its American Organization for Nursing Leadership.
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5 High-Impact Tax Strategies Every Physician Should Use in 2026 to Reduce Their Tax Bill
AI-native tax firm Gelt combines top human tax experts with AI to help physicians and healthcare practices use data-driven tax strategies to lower liabilities, improve profitability, and future-proof their finances.
Who Wins When Nurses Are Reimbursed for Care Delivery?
Investing in nurses — by reimbursing them based on the value of their work — can improve job satisfaction thus reducing the churn rate and attracting more to the profession.
A National Nursing Surplus Is Predicted by 2028, But There Will Still Be Shortages in Some States. What Can Providers There Do?
A new Mercer report predicts there will be a national surplus of about 30,000 nurses by 2028. Though an overall surplus is projected nationally, there will still be significant shortages of nursing labor in a handful of states, as well as most of the country’s rural areas. To solve this issue, providers need to recruit from wider labor pools, minimize nurses’ nonclinical tasks and prioritize creating a more supportive work environment.
Healthcare Errors: It Is Time to Tackle Them, Not Tolerate Them
We call for our partners in practice, education, and industry to join this effort to make our healthcare settings safer for all patients.
Transforming Healthcare with Virtual Nursing: Considerations for Nurse Leaders
Virtual nursing, a concept that marries the strengths of traditional nursing models – primary nursing and team nursing – is emerging as a promising solution to address the challenges faced by healthcare organizations.
As Healthcare and Biopharma Companies Embrace AI, Insurance Underwriters See Risks and Opportunities
In an interview, Munich Re Specialty Senior Vice President Jim Craig talked about the risk that accompanies innovation and the important role that insurers play.
Integrated Technology Helps Nurses Make Time for the Moments That Matter
If we can simplify nurses’ work by embracing technology that streamlines, automates, and integrates processes like scheduling, credentialing, and compliance management to enhance quality outcomes, we can give nurses time back to spend on the moments that matter most.
To Get Better Staffing Levels, Hospitals Must Prioritize Nurses’ Hiring Demands
Many health systems aren’t employing the right tactics for hiring and retaining nurses, according to a new report. It argued that hospitals would have an easier time hiring and retaining nurses if they focused more on the things workers want most from their employers — such as flexible scheduling and professional development opportunities.
60% of Nurses Have Plans to Change Their Job Status in the Coming Year, Study Shows
The burnout crisis among nurses has gotten significantly worse since the peak of the pandemic in 2021, according to new research from AMN Healthcare. Only 40% of nurses said that they have no plans to change their work status in the coming year, and only one-third said they have ideal time to spend with their patients — marking a decrease of 10 percentage points from 2021.
CommonSpirit, Dignity Health Team Up to Launch Nurse Retention Program
CommonSpirit Health has co-developed a nurse residency program with Dignity Health Global Education. The program, which is designed to increase nurse retention, comes at a time when turnover rates for newly graduated nurses are at an all-time high. Through the program, the partners are aiming to increase newly graduated nurse retention by at least 20% at CommonSpirit.
Here’s What Stanford Learned From a Failed Tech Pilot
About 70% of hospital IT pilots fail or face major challenges, yet it's rare for hospitals to discuss these setbacks. At HIMSS23, two nursing informatics leaders argued that project failure is nothing to be ashamed of because it can teach hospitals valuable lessons about what they need for technology initiatives to thrive in the future.