Bob Dent, co-author of Pickle Pledge: Creating a More Positive Healthcare Culture—One Attitude at a Time, has won the prestigious Richard Hader Visionary Leader Award from Nursing Management. He is also a candidate for President-Elect of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE).

Barbara Cherry, DNSc, MBA, RN, NEA-BC Professor, Associate Dean and Department Chair, Leadership Studies Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing Dr. Cherry’s original nursing degree is a diploma from Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Lubbock, Texas. She eventually progressed through the BSN and MSN degrees and also earned a Masters of Business Administration from Texas Tech University. In 2006, she received her Doctor of Nursing Science (DNSc) degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Join over 200 nurse leaders and sponsor community members February 23 – 24, 2017 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas for the 2017 TONE Annual Conference. As always, the conference will offer a line-up of dynamic speakers, networking opportunities, CNE credit offerings and industry insight, with a focus on this year’s theme: "Developing Emerging Leaders: Quality, Efficiency, Education and Policy."

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media Nurse leaders say the standard recruitment and retention methods of sign-on bonuses, pay increases, and retention incentives won't be effective in improving the current nursing shortage.

Sallie Jimenez, nurse.com In nursing, salaries increased on average about 1.3% per year from 2008 to the middle of 2014, and since then the rate has gone up 2.6% per year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media Frontline managers play an important role in improving patient experience, safety, and quality of care.

Robert G. Hess Jr., PhD, RN, FAAN, nurse.com I became a nurse. But then I had to figure out what kind of nurse I wanted to be.

Diane Goodman, ADVANCE Determining to pursue a career in nursing may be the easiest decision you make in life.

Julia Quinn-Szcesuil, Minority Nurse You’re a nurse and you probably talk all day long.

Maggie Van Dyke, Hospitals & Health Networks On her first day of work at Florida’s Memorial Hospital Miramar, Grisel Fernandez-Bravo, R.N., was given a hospital ID badge displaying her new title: chief executive officer.

Lee Ann Jarousse, Hospitals & Health Networks Diversity in the C-suite and on hospital boards is critical as hospitals push forward with population health and new models of care.

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Laura Dyrda, Becker's ASC Review President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 to lessen the economic burden of the ACA.

Jacqueline Belliveau, RevCycle Intelligence Over 120 healthcare industry groups, including hospitals, healthcare systems, payers, and professional organizations, recently urged the Trump administration and Congress to not discontinue or slow the transition to value-based care.

Nancy J. Brent, MS, JD, RN, nurse.com A reader submitted a question about using her experience with electronic health records, her clinical practice and her background in risk management to develop a niche focusing on EHRs and the legal issues therein to improve patient safety.

Debra M. Foster, ADVANCE Consider a scenario that is all too familiar: You arrive for your regular shift in the medical intensive care unit (MICU).

HospiMedica A new study mined a number of large routinely collected hospital data sets in an attempt to reveal relationships between nurse staffing and patient outcome variables, such as safety factors.

Dawna Martich, MSN, RN, DailyNurse Telenursing is a care delivery method that has been used for decades.

Rick Hellman, Medical Xpress Modern hospital design—with all-private patient rooms, larger units and decentralized nursing stations – has raised concerns about nurses walking long distances and failing to maintain proximity to patients.

Olivia Nguyen, D Healthcare Daily Texas Health Fort Worth’s neurosurgical intensive care unit earned a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for its successful patient outcomes and unit performance.

Megan Wood, Becker's Hospital Review Sworn in on Jan. 3, 2017, the 115th U.S. Congress includes three nurses. These veteran congresswomen include Reps. Karen Bass, APRN, Diane Black, RN, and Eddie Bernice Johnson, BSN.