In a few days, the winners of HCPro's 2010 Nursing Image Awards will be announced. Out of hundreds of nominees, two nurses will be selected as the embodiment of leadership and clinical excellence. I ...

Despite the compounding challenges of leading a team with upward of 93,000 nurses amid national staffing strains, an incessant pandemic and high burnout rates for the profession, Sammie Mosier, BSN, ...

Northbridge Health Care Center in Bridgeport is one of four nursing home facilities in the state that were to serve COVID-19 patients who did not require acute care hospitalization. Credit: Cloe ...

No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...

A few weeks ago I went to a special church service in a small village in Nottinghamshire to celebrate the life and work of an inspirational nurse, Ethel Bedford Fenwick. Subscribe today to access over ...

In December 2021, tornado sirens sounded throughout Arkansas and Kentucky, and a deadly EF3 twister ripped through the Monette Manor nursing home. Inside, 67 residents huddled together under the ...

When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...

In her hospital room, Mrs. Sanchez was in stable condition as her family gathered by her bedside, but within minutes she went into cardiac arrest and died soon after. Luckily, this health tragedy wasn ...

How often – and how well – do health care programs teach lessons about the impact that climate exerts on health? And as more of us are exposed to and sickened by toxins, polluted air, unsafe drinking ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a classroom, an old man glides in pushing a walker, and none of the young faces turn. In the cafeteria, a white-haired woman eats across from a teenager, to no one’s surprise. And ...