Here's a roundup of our most popular nursing stories of the year. Find out what your colleagues were reading and catch-up on anything you missed.
Monday, December 10, 2018

Review the past and look forward to the future.

I look forward to reading the annual "Best of" lists that start appearing around this time. In this issue, I've included a roundup of HealthLeaders' most popular nursing articles from 2018. Some topics seem to make the list every year—patient experience, APRN scope of practice, nursing education preparedness. But this year, readers were intrigued by some fresh topics such as preventing nurse suicide and how nurses can solve some of the challenges facing healthcare organizations.

Plus, more news on California staffing ratios and insights on quality improvement.
 

HealthLeaders Top 10 Nursing Stories of 2018
Here's a roundup of our most popular nursing stories of the year. Find out what your colleagues were reading and catch up on anything you missed.
 
 
More Than Half Of California Nursing Homes Balk At Stricter Staffing Rules
California is one of only a few states that set their own minimum requirements for nursing home staffing. The new rules seem universally unpopular.
5 Strategies for Quality Improvement Project Success
Effective management of quality improvement initiatives includes leadership, teamwork, planning, and pace setting.
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Ebb and Flow: Optimizing Care in the Emergency Department
Optimizing care in emergency departments (EDs) as patient numbers grow is critical. Excruciatingly long wait times have become commonplace in our country’s health system today, because EDs have assumed a more expansive role in care.
EHR Relief in Sight? HHS Issues Draft Strategy to Reduce Health IT Burdens
Opportunity for public commentary is open through January 28.
3 Ways Your Hospital Can Contain Escalating Drug Prices and Shortages
What can hospital executives and clinicians do inside their hospital walls to tackle rising costs and inconsistent supplies?
 
 

Must Reads

Amid nursing shortage, SC graduating more nurses with bachelor's degrees
The Post and Courier
Unionizing efforts for nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital divides medical community
CBS Baltimore
Two nurses died of overdoses inside a Dallas hospital. What went wrong?
The Dallas Morning News
Johns Hopkins nurses say hospital fails to address patient care concerns
The Baltimore Sun
 

Thanks for spending some time catching up with us. If you'd like to read more about a certain topic or issue, let me know at jthew@healthleadersmedia.com or Tweet @jen_NurseEditor.
 

Jennifer Thew, RN
Senior Editor, Nursing