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Understaffing Due To Doubling Down on Nursing Budget Errors
After publishing my articles Flawed Nursing Budget Process Increases Understaffing Risk and A Care-Centric Approach to Nurse Scheduling, a nurse manager contacted me regarding an odd...
Happy Nursing Informatics Day 2022!
Nursing Informatics is at the Heart of Nursing To celebrate Florence Nightingale's birthday and Nursing Informatics Day, I thought it would be nice to share some of her history and the...
Health Information Data Visualization Design Webinar
The Midwest Chapter of the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) is hosting a webinar on Health Information Data Visualization Design on May 18, 2022, from 11:00 am Central to...
A Day in the Life of a Nurse Informaticist
If you've wondered what working as an informatics nurse might look like, come check out the free panel discussion sponsored by the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. It's always...
Nursing Informatics Boot Camps in 2022
If you're looking for nursing informatics CEUs or an excellent review course for the ANCC Informatics Nursing Certification (RN-BC), Dr. Susan Newbold has scheduled five nursing...
Challenges With Maintaining A Stable Supply of CNAs
After publishing my article on A Care-Centric Approach to Nurse Scheduling, I received several messages asking whether the care-centric methodology can also be applied to CNAs and LPNs....
What Do We Do When Our Leaders Are Wrong?
A leader's experience, knowledge, and wisdom are essential to successfully guiding their followers during a crisis. But what do you do when the advice or direction from your...
A Care-Centric Approach to Nurse Scheduling
Creating safe and effective nursing schedules can be frustrating for nurse managers and bedside nursing staff. There is little training available to nurse managers on translating their...
Nursing Budget Flaw Impact on Understaffing at the Hospital and Regional Levels
In my blog post, Flawed Nursing Budget Process Increases Understaffing Risk, I spelled out the details behind an incorrect formula in a nursing budget process used by some hospitals. This...
Flawed Nursing Budget Process Increases Understaffing Risk
With the COVID pandemic, the nursing shortage has figured prominently in the news cycle. There have been many reports about the nursing shortage, severe understaffing, hospitals enacting...
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