How a Learning Culture Can Shore Up Hospitals Against Risks of Nursing Shortage
There’s no single or quick fix. But the sector is ramping up initiatives to help relieve the pressure. A critical focal point is education. But related efforts must be thoroughly weighed to counter the downside risks.
How AdventHealth’s Clinical Ladder Programs Flipped the Script on Nurse Turnover
When health systems lose nurses, it has sweeping effects on the organization’s culture and budget. The average cost of turnover for a single bedside RN is $61,110, which stacks with the cost of overtime labor or contract labor to help cover the care gap.
How LifePoint Health Is Combating Nursing Workforce Challenges with Scalability in 2026
While CNOs try to build a more sustainable workforce, tightening budgets are putting more strain on health systems and higher costs of education are making it harder for people to become nurses or to advance their nursing careers.
Investing in Nurse Wellbeing: An Essential C-Suite Partnership
Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system, and prioritizing nurse mental health and wellness results in lower turnover rates and increased cost savings.
Patient Safety Predictions for 2026, Part 2
PSQH reached out to experts throughout healthcare to get their predictions for what will happen in patient safety and healthcare quality in 2026. We received so many predictions this time around that we’re breaking it up into two parts. Here’s Part 2 of what they had to say.
Providence’s CIO Looks for Humanity in Healthcare Innovation
Goswami sees today’s tech trends, from AI to virtual care to digital health, as having the potential to bring humanity back to healthcare. But these new tools have to work for both patients and providers, bringing them face-to-face rather than shunting them onto different pathways.
How New Technologies Are Changing the ED
AI tools are pulling in data from the EHR and other sources, giving clinicians chart summaries and offering care suggestions, and helping stratify patient needs and plan the patient’s discharge or admittance.
How Excluding Nursing from Professional Degree Program Loan Eligibility Will Impact Nurses and Patients
These policy changes will have a massive impact on the healthcare system, from a personal to a systemic level.
Pilot Program Sees 78% Reduction in Workplace Violence
A new nurse-led pilot program aimed at mitigating workplace violence in the hospital setting using communication enhancements, tools for early risk identification of escalating behaviors, and increased accessibility to de-escalation resources has shown a 78% reduction in workplace violence incidents over its first year.
Should Nurse Practitioners Have Full Practice Authority?
Wisconsin was one of the most recent states to grant NPs full practice authority earlier in August. This means that APRNs will have their own licenses and be able to operate independently as certified nurse midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, and NPs.