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Nurse researchers should develop a common set of nurse-sensitive outcome measures in acute and critical care settings to enable the field’s value to be visible to patients, families and organizations, an article concludes.
The House of Representatives voted 217-215 to adopt its budget proposal calling for $2 trillion in spending cuts, some of which could affect Medicaid and other key health programs. The bill allows up to $4.5 trillion in spending for tax cuts and would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
The 2025 Nursing Innovations Fund will provide up to $20,000 each for selected projects offering innovative and replicable solutions to strengthen the nursing workforce by creating and sustaining healthy workforce environments and improving nurse recruitment and retention rates.
Health facilities should evaluate touch-free automatic foam alcohol-based hand rub outputs and consider consistent dosing for effective hand hygiene, a study concluded.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology issued curriculum guidelines to assist undergraduate, certificate and graduate programs in aligning their inflection prevention and control curriculum.
Careful prescribing of antibiotic use at hospital discharge could slow the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance, a study found.
St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s Raising St. Louis program provides multidisciplinary home visitation teams comprised of nurses, social workers and community health workers for mothers during the prenatal period and until their child reaches age 5.
Infectious disease experts say removing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website ─ as well as other federal health websites ─ is putting patient care and public health at risk.
Health care worker visa applications fell 4.6% in 2024 compared with 2023, but at 24,733 remain significantly higher than 2018, a report found.
Nurse executives seeking to recruit and retain nurse anesthetists in rural areas should prioritize work-life balance with flexibility in scheduling, according to a Journal of Nursing Administration study.