This Week in Nursing When an inpatient experiences an adverse incident or a near miss, hospitals with appropriate patient safety and quality assurance programs determine through an explicit risk-based prioritization methodology whether they should conduct a thorough investigation.  Even as rainwater and severe erosion threatened the Oroville dam in northern California this week, prompting mandatory evacuations of nearly 200,000 people downstream, hospitals in the affected areas remained open. Moral distress among chief nursing officers is seldom acknowledged. Two researchers, both RNs, hope their work will help address the elephant in the room. The nursing group at HCPro is asking for your candid feedback regarding your experiences as a nursing professional for our Salary Survey benchmarking report. The information you share about your wages and career growth will help others in the field identify ways to advance their own careers. Please take a few minutes to complete this brief survey. The results are confidential; they will be analyzed by members of the nursing community and compiled in a special report to be published later this year.
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Editor's Note February 9, 2017
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