We’ve seen it happen in hospitals across the country all too frequently – a front-line nursing leadership vacancy occurs and all of a sudden a department leader must scramble to find a replacement.

Registered nurses at MarinHealth Medical Center in Greenbrae, Calif., will hold an informational picket on Friday, Dec. 12, to protest the hospital’s refusal to address nurses’ concerns about staff ...

Many nurses aspire to become a charge nurse. It’s a role that carries weight and responsibility, requiring a blend of clinical expertise and leadership skills. If you’re hoping to move into this ...

Today more than ever, we hear about the importance of PROACTIVE approaches to prevent as many unfavorable events as possible. One of the key essential proactive approaches that we can implement is to ...

The best place to start when planning leadership training courses for your charge nurses. Leadership training is an essential component to training a charge nurse. Orienting charge nurses to the role ...

Registered nurses at HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster have filed an unfair labor practice charge over what they say is the hospital’s refusal to provide key information about its plans to merge ...

National Nurses Week or Month has to be more than a luncheon, a poster contest or even distributing hospital swag. Celebrating the nursing profession means examining how nurses are “uniquely prepared” ...

Nurses have been a part of every aspect of care with the coronavirus pandemic — taking care of patients, communicating with families, writing health guidelines, spreading public health messages, and ...

BOLIVAR, Mo. – National Nurses Week kicks off today, Monday, May 6. Nurses Week runs from May 6 to May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday, according to the American Nurses Association. It was ...

Flexibility and innovative practice models can enhance retention of nurses reaching retirement age. Most nurses aged 55 and older have such passion for their work that providing schedule flexibility ...