While bar-coding technology can improve medication administration safety by reducing errors, it's not always preferred by the nurses who use it. Worse, some nurses try to override or work around the ...

Research suggesting nurse anesthetist standalone care is equivalent to physician-led care is flawed, according to a new study published online in Anesthesia & Analgesia. 1. According to study results, ...

Hopefully, not many healthcare organizations will need to use it, but there’s now an ICD-10 code for treating patients with coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC's) ...

HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easier for everyone ...

Nurses and physician assistants are an integral part of a successful electronic health record implementation, according to EHR Intelligence. A 2008 EHR adoption survey found practices had an 83 ...

The NMC has appointed a chair of the independent steering group for its ongoing reviews of the Code and revalidation ...

A survey of patients regarding their perception of professionalism conveyed by the appearance of nurses resulted in the creation of a new dress code for nurses at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, ...

While most policy changes come from the top down, Geisinger Health System's new dress code for nurses came from an unusual source: patients. In a recent article published in the Online Journal of ...