While bar-coding technology can improve medication administration safety by reducing errors, it's not always preferred by the nurses who use it. Worse, some nurses try to override or work around the ...

SILVER SPRING, MD, Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Center for Ethics & Human Rights released the highly anticipated 2025 revision of the Code of Ethics ...

Georgetown University’s School of Nursing (SON) explored the key changes designed to support nurses and patients in the changing healthcare systems in the newly revised 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses, ...

In what is already a highly regulated industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to navigate the growing volume, complexity and enforcement of laws, regulations and ...

Decision-making in large institutions often starts at the highest levels and is then passed down through the levels to employees. Geisinger’s recent implementation of a dress code for nurses and other ...

HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easier for everyone ...

Hopefully, not many healthcare organizations will need to use it, but there’s now an ICD-10 code for treating patients with coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC's) ...

Nurses and physician assistants are an integral part of a successful electronic health record implementation, according to EHR Intelligence. A 2008 EHR adoption survey found practices had an 83 ...