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A cohort study found the maternal respiratory syncytial virus vaccine could be associated with a greater risk of pregnancy-associated hypertensive disorders, but the researchers emphasized the study is just one in a multiphase approach to monitor the RSV vaccine for safety.
Identifying Clostridiodes difficile patients upon hospital admission could reduce health care-acquired infection rates, transmissions and possibly decrease unnecessary antibiotic use, concludes an American Journal of Infection Control study.
The administration decision to reshape Title X, the federal government’s only dedicated family planning program, could make pregnancy more dangerous for low-income women, experts say.
An American Hospital Association podcast explores how philanthropic funding from Indiana University Health South Region in Bloomington to Ivy Tech Community College-Bloomington has enabled Ivy Tech to expand its nursing education programming to address the state’s shortage of 4,300 nurses.
A nurse-led model merging evidence-based practice and quality improvement paradigms can decrease the time for research to translate into practice across disciplines, according to a study published in Nursing Outlook.
Nursing schools and practice partners should adopt the standing faculty clinician educator role to integrate leadership, scholarship, teaching and clinical expertise seamlessly across academia and practice, states a Nursing Outlook commentary.
Workflow disruption is the biggest barrier to artificial intelligence adoption, with 59% of McKinsey survey respondents citing it as their top concern.
Cultures of silence among health care professionals remain a threat to patients and health care innovation, a survey of more than 3,500 clinicians and health care administrators found.
Nurses’ subjective assessments of staffing adequacy are a more accurate predictor of patient safety on medical-surgical units than traditional administrative data, a study found.
Thirty-nine Senators signed a Senate “dear colleague” an April 21 letter addressed to leaders on the Senate subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Committee requesting $610 million for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs in…