Search Tag: Nursing
2025 08 Apr
In healthcare settings, the rapid integration of technological innovations often fails to reflect the practical realities of frontline nursing. Traditionally, these innovations have emerged from a top-down design approach, resulting in tools that may not align with daily clinical workflows or address the challenges nurses face. This misalignment...Read more
2025 17 Mar
The nursing profession is undergoing significant transformation as healthcare systems worldwide face growing challenges. An ageing population, a rise in chronic diseases and persistent shortages of medical professionals are placing unprecedented demands on nurses. Across Europe, the roles and responsibilities of nurses vary widely, influencing...Read more
2024 05 Mar
Nurses play a crucial role in healthcare delivery, often working demanding shift patterns that can impact their physical health, mental wellbeing, and overall quality of life. Shift length, timing, and rotation are all factors that can affect nurse wellbeing, and it's essential to organise these shifts in ways that promote their health and job...Read more
2024 30 Jan
Job security can often be a challenge that faces many professions - particularly as new and emerging technologies challenge the existing frameworks of office roles. However, one discipline experiencing unprecedented growth is the demand for medical professionals such as physicians and nurses. Recent data published by the U.S. Bureau of...Read more
2023 24 Dec
Nursing can seem like a complicated field, with the variety of acronyms and definitions that make up the broad classification of roles - and as a result, sometimes it can be difficult to understand just what a nursing course teaches you and how it can empower you in the workplace. As a highly regarded profession, a qualification in nursing,...Read more
2023 24 Dec
Once you've decided to pursue a career in nursing, the next logical step is to figure out which school will be the best fit for you. However, this task can often feel a little daunting. You will need to start researching schools, preparing for entrance exams, and assembling any required materials. This guide aims to help you navigate this process...Read more
2023 08 Sep
The World Economic Forum speculates the world could be short 13 million nurses by 2030. There are various reasons for this, with exhaustion, burnout and mistreatment ranking the top three. The COVID-19 pandemic also played a role in this figure, with an estimated 115,000 deaths in the worldwide workforce of healthcare workers. To...Read more
2023 30 Aug
Nursing is a challenging and difficult career and one that, while rewarding, isn’t always the most rewarded path to take. Some motivations for nursing include feeling it is a calling to help give patients something they really need - steady work, standardised pay grades, established predictable best practices and employee benefits while working a shift,...Read more
2023 16 Jul
Becoming a nurse is a lucrative but demanding career path. You have a steady annual average income of $77,600 , paid vacations, and health insurance benefits. A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree lasts four years, and choosing a nursing program is also a viable option after an undergrad degree in another subject. However, nurses...Read more
2022 13 May
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) released its International Nurses Day (IND) toolkit on 12 May 2022, a report that provides multisectoral guidance to nursing stakeholders globally. In releasing this document, ICN’s goal is to support the implementation of the WHO Global Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery: 2021-2025 (SDNM) . The...Read more
2022 11 May
To mark the contributions that nurses make to society, International Nurses Day is internationally observed every year on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth, since 1974. Every year, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) provides promotional and educational material in support of this day. Each year, International Nurses...Read more
2022 03 May
Patient outcomes are dependent on several different factors, including the quality of care delivered to the patients, the experience and diagnosis of the physician, the severity of the patient's illness/condition and the quality of nursing care provided to the patient. In other words, the entire healthcare team plays a role in a patient's successful...Read more
2022 09 Feb
My dear readers, It is time again for thoughts from the island of Great Britain. I hope you had an excellent and HEALTHY start to the new year! The first month is over, and another eleven are ahead of us. I am sure we all know that the next few months will be pretty challenging for all of us. I missed my January article for some good reasons. Well,...Read more
2021 07 Jun
The Lockdown May End, But Nursing Will Continue My dear readers it is time again for my monthly update: It has been two weeks now since we have some semblance of our lives back in the United Kingdom. Well, almost. All shops, cinemas, theatres, and concert halls are open. Also the UK has reopened for tourism, meaning people are allowed to enter...Read more
2021 17 May
Researchers Found That Use of Patient SafetyNet with Masimo SET® Pulse Oximetry and Acoustic Repsiratory Rate (RRa®) Monitoring Reduced Nursing Workload Related to Postoperative Respiratory Assessment by More Than 60% NEUCHATEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the findings of a study published in the Journal...Read more
2020 29 Dec
While adherence to evidence-based protocols for sepsis care ('SEP-1 bundles') can help reduce in-hospital mortality and length of stay, a new U.S. study ( Lasater et al. 2020) says improving patient-to-nurse staffing ratios has greater impact on patient outcomes. You might also like: How preventable are in-hospital sepsis-associated...Read more
