These stress management moves can help nurses cope much longer
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Amy Novotney
Jul 10, 2023
Interventions aimed at reducing work-related stress for nurses may lead to improvements in how people cope with stress up to a year later, according to Dutch researchers.
Real Time Medical teams up with Signature on outcomes
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Amy Novotney
May 03, 2023
Post-acute analytics solution firm Real Time Medical Systems has partnered with Kentucky-based Signature HealthCARE to implement the firm’s interventional analytics throughout all of Signature’s skilled...
Nurse leaders: We need to be seen as ‘clinical experts’
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Amy Novotney
Dec 01, 2020
While nurse leaders are humbled and utterly thankful for the “hero” recognition they’ve received amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they resoundingly would instead prefer to be viewed as “clinical experts”...
Hollywood channels nurses in docu-play
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Amy Novotney
Dec 01, 2020
Hollywood stars used the words of real-life nurses coping with the pandemic in a virtual docu-play “That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words.”
Student start-up creates fall prevention alerts system
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Amy Novotney
Dec 01, 2020
Students at the University of Virginia are working to patent a new technology that could help prevent falls among nursing home residents.
New platform targets dementia patients
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Amy Novotney
Dec 01, 2020
Researchers from the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging and LifeBio are using artificial intelligence to connect with and improve care for older adults. The National Institute on Aging awarded the organizations...
Adopting living wage would benefit industry, study finds
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Amy Novotney
Nov 01, 2020
Increasing direct care workers’ pay to a living wage would not only raise their total wages by $9.4 billion by 2022, it would also lead to several benefits for operators, including less staff shortages...
Study: Nurses bear brunt of virus cases
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Amy Novotney
Nov 01, 2020
An analysis of 97 COVID-19 studies by investigators from Switzerland and Colombia has found that more than half of healthcare workers who test positive for the virus are nurses. The study also showed that...
Researchers are using AI to predict loneliness in seniors
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Amy Novotney
Nov 01, 2020
As loneliness continues to affect seniors in long-term care amid the pandemic, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine are using artificial intelligence to study the issue...
Execs: Engagement technology critical
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Amy Novotney
Nov 01, 2020
Thanks to COVID-19, more skilled nursing leaders are finding that engagement technology has become a necessity. In fact, the number of nursing home executives who view the technology as having a clear...