Employee engagement surveys are one way leaders can evaluate how satisfied their employees are with their current working environment. However the correlation can have a much larger impact within an organization. A healthy work environment decreases turnover rates, improves patient satisfaction, and improves organizational performance.

Rebecca Grant, The Atlantic
The country has experienced nursing shortages for decades, but an aging population means the problem is about to get much worse.

Taunya English, Newsworks.org
Registered nurses commonly make the jump from staff nurse to manager and, eventually, Chief Nursing Officer. The next leap—to Chief Executive Officer—is a lot more rare.

Shannon Firth, Medpage Today
Some basic health system reforms -- including better care planning, increased patient engagement, and improved interoperability -- can and should be implemented immediately, according to the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC).

Laura Dyrda, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Nurses entering practice today need to be trained on how to become the next generation of nurse leaders.

University of Arkansas Newswire
Nursing practice today is based on scientific evidence; and, when there is a lack of evidence, registered nurses conduct research to generate new knowledge, said Charleen McNeill, a University of Arkansas assistant professor of nursing.

Jessica Davis, Healthcare IT News
More than one-third of hospitals aren't meeting National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators performance metrics, a new Ohio State University study on chief nurse executives finds.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
Hoping to counter stress and compassion fatigue, one hospital has created private spaces for its nurses to process their emotions before returning to their patients, refocused. At least one study links better nursing environments to better patient outcomes.

David Ferguson, Fierce Healthcare
"Nurse intuition" doesn't sound scientific, but it could play a key role in critical-care outcomes, according to a small study published in DovePress.

MinorityNurse.com
With 40% of the U.S. population currently consisting of either immigrants or first-generation Americans, and with people of color actually outnumbering Caucasians in some parts of the country, it’s imperative that health care facilities provide cultural competence training for their nurses, to ensure that all patients receive quality care.

Shannon Barnet, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
If there is one group of clinicians that is particularly pivotal to the success of any quality improvement initiatives — including though regarding hand hygiene compliance — it's the nurses who work on the front lines of patient care.

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Susan Morse, Healthcare Finance News
CMS also pitched adjusting star ratings to reflect the enrollee's socioeconomic and/or disability status.

Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News
A video of a nurse in Houston singing to a 4-year-old girl with leukemia, who could not fall asleep, went viral this week after her father posted it on Facebook.

Matt Goodman, D Healthcare Daily
The Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing landed a federal grant worth more than $650,000 to establish a four-story education center in India.

Shannon Barnet and Kelly Gooch, Becker’s Hospital Review
To honor the leaders behind these remote providers, Becker's Hospital Review has named the following leaders to the 2016 edition of its 50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know list.

The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies at the Department of State Health Services is asking all Chief Nursing Officers/Directors of Nursing of hospitals in Texas complete a short survey in spring 2016.

Bruce Japsen, Motley Fool
From hospital operators and insurance companies to perhaps even retail drugstore chains, the healthcare industry is looking to urgent care centers as a way to boost profits reeling in customers attracted to low costs.

Heather Caspi, Healthcare Dive
Stakeholders collaborating under the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) have released a set of six recommended steps to improve U.S. healthcare, ranging from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reforms, updates to fraud and abuse laws, and increased efforts toward a nationwide health information system.