Compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Life Safety Code regulations is continuously a challenge for skilled nursing facilities around the nation. These complex rules and ...

Nursing documentation is a cornerstone of contemporary healthcare, integrating systematic recording of patient observations, interventions, and outcomes with the aim of enhancing effective care ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

Hand-in-hand with real-time charting is point-of-care documentation, representing another change in nurses' workflow ushered in by EHRs. The idea is that computer workstations would be located in ...

The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it's perhaps not surprising that ...

Speech-to-text software can bring improvements to the quality of nursing documentation but, if benefits to patients are to be maximised, accompanying changes need to be made to how nurses think about, ...

Of the 120 questionnaires distributed, 103 were returned. Three questionnaires were discarded owing to excessive missing data (>30%), leaving 100 that were usable and yielding a response rate of 83%.

The Maryland Board of Nursing said it has cleared almost all of the 259 nurses and nursing applicants who may have obtained a Maryland license using fraudulent documents from a scheme revealed in ...

Hospitals nationwide are looking for innovative ways to decrease drug waste, particularly for controlled substances. An effective solution would ensure patients receive the correct dose, decrease lost ...