Brenda Pignone, a staff nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, arrives before 7 a.m. on a typical day. For 26 years, she's taken the elevator to a floor known as White 7, where most of her patients ...

Among the endless number of decisions faced by those who run infusion centers, perhaps none is more hotly debated than what the “best” way is to assign patients to nurses. Over the last six years, my ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Assigning patients just got a whole lot easier for charge nurses. MedAptus, a Boston-based healthcare technology company, has launched ASSIGN for Nurses, a new software ...

This article explores the congruence between payer patient assignment and quality performance and the implications for incentive payments in alternative payment models. Objectives: To assess the ...

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 ...

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