Effective education is vital to the nursing department, but it can be hard to make the case for it in budget meetings. Here are some tips for evaluating and measuring education programs that reflect ...
Several years ago, while working in nursing professional development and education, consultant Gen Guanci, MEd, RN-BC, CCRN, realized that she was doing herself and her department a disservice by ...
Neil Davison, BN, DipN, FETC, Cert Ed, ONC, RGN, is lecturer and teaching fellow; Katherine Williams, MA, AdvDipEd, DipN, Cert Ed, RGN, is lecturer; both at Bangor ...
Federal officials have quietly withdrawn the only new nursing home quality measure that had been listed as “under consideration” for future years. In December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...
Nursing staff turnover has long been considered an important indicator of nursing home quality. However, turnover has never been reported on the Nursing Home Compare website, likely because of the ...
WASHINGTON – Nearly a third of the nation's nursing homes are getting lower scores on the government's five-star quality scale, a reflection of tougher standards for ratings used by nearly 1.5 million ...
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Press Ganey today announced the industry’s first nursing-sensitive quality indicator for Assaults on Nursing Personnel with unit-level data and comparatives. The indicator, ...