University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing via EndoNurse
New research findings from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing show that patient and nurse outcomes in Kaiser Permanente hospitals were significantly better compared to other hospitals. Differences in nursing explained a significant proportion of the Kaiser Permanente outcomes advantage for patients.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
National Park Medical Center in Arkansas finds that an automated patient callback system gathers emergency department patient satisfaction data more effectively than paper surveys.

ConsumerReports.org
Across the country, nondoctor health care professionals—usually nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs)—are turning up in a range of medical settings.

Thomas Dahlborg, Hospital Impact
In my last post, I mentioned the recent opportunity I had to visit a number of well-respected healthcare organizations and meet with amazing servant leaders who are all striving to bring healthCARING back into the healthcare system.

Mandie Sunderland, NursingTimes.net
Nursing leadership and its role in ensuring high-quality care continues to take center stage in ongoing debates, successes, and challenges facing the NHS.

Martie Moore, RN, MAOM, CPHQ
When I first became a nursing leader, I worried about budgets, staffing and patient care. Next, I learned to understand the impact of teamwork, developing a culture of safety, and focusing on employee and patient safety.

Tracey Boyd, Nurse.com
Succession planning has long been a staple term in the business arena, but it has been lacking in the leadership areas of nursing, especially in nursing middle management, according to Maria R. Shirey, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FACHE, FAAN, assistant dean, clinical and global partnerships and professor, department of family, community and health systems at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing.

Donna Cardillo, Nurse.com
Dear Donna, I have 26 years of clinical experience almost exclusively providing primary care in four different settings. I would like to transition to a project-oriented leadership role rather than direct patient care.

Cheryl Clark, HealthLeaders Media
Interest in using a variety of staffing and nursing engagement surveys as a reportable quality indicator is growing.

Sherree Geyer, Healthcare IT News
Readmissions represent a failure to optimize patients' clinical condition for discharge or set them up with appropriate post-discharge care.

Lisa Rapaport, Reuters
Avoiding hospital IDs that say "baby boy" or "baby girl" when parents haven’t chosen a first name for their newborn may help reduce medical errors, a study suggests.

Emily Rappleye, Becker’s Hospital Review
Nearly one third of the people on Earth—2.3 billion—suffered from more than five health problems in 2013, according to a study cited in The New York Times.

Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare
Organizations must adopt "plane crash" mentality, says patient safety expert Peter Pronovost of Johns Hopkins University.

Jesse Singal, New York Magazine
Americans do not do end-of-life care well. As Atul Gawande explained in his most recent book, far too many terminally ill Americans spend their final days in the hospital undergoing painful and largely futile medical procedures, rather than in a potentially more comfortable home or hospice setting.

Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare
Nursing staff face a number of safety hazards, to the point that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced increased scrutiny of hospitals' safety precautions. But there are several threats to nurses that hospital leaders must address, according to Becker's Hospital Review.

Joyce Frieden, MedPage Today
A provision in the 21st Century Cures Act recently passed by the House would require the CDC to make sure some of the bill's financial incentives aren't encouraging antibiotic resistance.

By Leah Weatherford
The ANCC Pathway to Excellence Conference was a big deal for a group of 14 Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH) employees who attended on May 14 and 15 in Louisville, Ky.

The Editorial Board, The New York Times
Medicare and Medicaid, the two mainstays of government health insurance, turn 50 this month, having made it possible for most Americans in poverty and old age to get medical care.

Shannon Barnet, Becker’s Hospital Review
The traditional primary care model is ill-equipped to manage patient populations effectively in the new value-based care model, according to an article published in the latest issue of the Kurt Salmon Review.