Skilled nursing leaders are renewing calls to eliminate the three-day stay rule in light of a policy change that the Centers ...

When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

Skill-mixing is an important part of workforce planning within the NHS and is crucial if cost-effective and appropriate care is to be delivered to all patients. In most trusts the nursing workforce - ...

Several levels of rules govern the nursing scope of practice. At the top are nursing practice acts, which outline the nurse’s ...

Being in an era of acute talent exodus in the field of nursing in addition to global talent crunch (defined as alarming by WHO statistics!) in the nursing domain, it is imperative for organisations in ...

Phil Jevon, PGCE, BSc, RN, is resuscitation officer/clinical skills lead, Manor Hospital, Walsall, and honorary clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham Medical School Subscribe today for unlimited ...

People have the right to be involved in discussions and make informed decisions about their care, as described in NICE's information on making decisions about your care. Making decisions using NICE ...

BMJ Quality & Safety published a study finding acute care hospitals in Europe that substituted nursing assistants for professional nurses resulted in poorer quality of care and higher patient ...

Skilled nursing organizations are finally realizing the scheduler’s role – crucial in balancing care and budgetary needs – in the ideal form they ...

Replacing professionally qualified nurses with lower skilled nursing assistants is linked to a heightened risk of patient death, as well as other indicators of poor quality care, reveals a large ...