How a Remote Nurse-First Triage Model Reduces Benefits Spend for Employers
For two large employers, one type of nurse advice line—a nurse-first remote triage model—reduces unnecessary emergency department and urgent care visits. It’s an approach that lowers healthcare costs for both employees and employers and helps minimize readmissions by offering patients clinical support when they need it, including after hours.
Recruiting and Retaining Nurses: A Critical Challenge Facing the Healthcare Industry
The industry is formulating new strategies to overcome the challenge of onboarding nurses effectively. The hospitals and health systems that rise to meet this challenge have an opportunity to set themselves apart in the race to recruit and retain new nurses―and in turn set themselves apart as leaders in care delivery for years to come.
Nurses’ Soothing Escape Produces Higher Levels of Well-Being, Retention, and Engagement
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Serenity Lounges—break rooms equipped with massage chairs, aromatherapy oils, artwork, and other soothing amenities to provide a respite from nurses’ demanding work—are proving to be effective in nurse well-being, staff engagement, and retention rates.
How CNOs Can Avoid Nurse Turnover and Knowledge Gaps
Novant’s nurse emeritus program began to take shape during COVID-19 as Novant nurse executives were configuring care teams to have enough critical thinking skills and knowledge. The program officially debuted in January 2022 and has about 15 participants.
Can Virtual Nursing Help Hospitals Address Workforce Challenges?
With workforce shortages across the board, from nurses to doctors to IT and support staff, health system leaders are leveraging a number of strategies to improve the workplace, reduce stress and turnover, and entice more people into the industry.
3 Health Systems Where Tech is Transforming Nursing
These three stories from HealthLeaders illustrate how nurses at hospitals and health systems around the country are embracing the advancements that technology and AI can provide.
Why Nurse Practitioners are a Solution to Rural Healthcare Challenges
NPs could ease “care deserts” created by physician shortages and rural hospital closings. Nearly 80% of rural U.S. counties are medical deserts, according to the NRHA. About 35% of all U.S. counties are “total maternity deserts”—no access to prenatal or delivery services—and another 54% are considered partial deserts, which equates to 7 million women without access to maternity care, according to the March of Dimes.
Virtual Reality Decreases Nursing Students’ Unease in Treating Anxiety-Prone Patients
With anxiety as the most prevalent mental health disorder in the United States, nurses do not feel adequately prepared to care for anxious patients, according to the research by Tanae A. Traister, assistant dean of Nursing & Health Sciences at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
The Exec: Quest for a Cancer-Free World Attracts Nurses to Cancer Nursing
Karmanos employs employment strategies typical of most hospitals—sign-on bonuses, competitive salaries, and additional education—but its mission of cancer care seems to resonate strongly in the nurses who work there.
New—and Sometimes Nontraditional—Ways to Attract and Keep Nurses
As hospitals and health systems continue to seek solutions to workforce staffing—particularly nursing—many are veering away from traditional methods and embracing new ways of attracting and retaining employees.