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Nurses ranked highest once again in the 2019 Gallup poll of Americans’ views of the honesty and ethics of various professionals. With 85% of Americans saying nurses' honesty and ethical standards are "very high" or "high,” nurses topped the Gallup list for the 18th year in a row. The second highest…
A consensus report providing a framework for evaluating opioid prescribing was released last month by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its first approval of an Ebola virus disease (EVD) vaccine called Ervebo in December. Because of the public health importance of a vaccine to prevent EVD, the agency stated, the FDA worked closely with the pharmaceutical company, completing its…
A study published in the January 2020 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety used retrospective data to evaluate the ability of a machine learning system to generate clinically valid alerts for medication errors not previously programmed into an existing clinical…
In an effort to reduce diagnostic errors, the Joint Commission and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) have released a Quick Safety advisory: Advancing safety with closed-loop communication of test results.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) announced it will raise the passing standard for its practical nurse licensing exam, the NCLEX-PN, starting in April 2020. The new passing standard is 0.03 logits higher than the current standard of -0.21 logits. A logit is defined as a unit…
According to a study in the Journal of Nursing Administration, standardizing the rounding process in a 28-bed mixed intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the time spent on rounds by 25% and dramatically increased the participation of respiratory therapists, clinical dietitians and case managers. The…
According to a review of federal funding for nursing research from 1992 to 2017, National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) funding to nursing schools peaked in 2005, and NINR dispersed fewer dollars to nursing schools than did other sources within the National Institutes of Health since 2011.…
In December, Congress passed two minibus spending bills, which include gains for nursing in fiscal year 2020. The bipartisan spending package increased funding for Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs by $10.5 million. Funding for the National Institute of Nursing Research rose by $169…
Nurse leaders hosted the first National Nursing LGBTQ Health Summit at Columbia University School of Nursing in New York City.