While the long-term care sector braces for the announcement of a final nursing home staffing mandate from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, new analysis suggests that optimizing the role ...

Three-fourths of the nation’s nursing homes never meet federal staffing expectations for registered nurse staffing, and RNs are often missing from such facilities on the weekends, according to a new ...

A new study from the University of Rochester Medical Center warns that nursing home capacity across the United States has dropped sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic, with rural communities hit the ...

A few more hours under the care of a registered nurse can improve a patient’s sepsis outcome, according to a new study out of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University. Led by ...

A new study challenges conventional thought regarding the benefits of continuity in nursing care within intensive care units (ICUs). The researchers found that increased nurse continuity was not ...

Supplementing gaps in nursing staff with lower-wage personnel like licensed practical nurses or aides can increase patient risks of readmission, death, longer stays and lower satisfaction, according ...