From financial outcomes to mortality rates, nurse leaders can positively influence a healthcare system’s metrics.
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When It Comes to Metrics, Nurses Matter
From financial outcomes to mortality rates, nurse leaders can positively influence a healthcare system’s metrics.
 

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Data Analytics Helped Mercy Slash $4.3M in Nursing Costs
Combining data from the hospital's existing SaaS scheduling application with predictive analytics is helping schedulers identify and stop nurse leakage.
ERs Learn How To Protect A Vulnerable Population
Because visits to the emergency room may be the only time an older adult leaves the house, staff in the ER can be a first line of defense.
 

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Intermountain Makes Ambitious Opioid Reduction Pledge
The pledge to reduce opioid prescriptions by 40% by the end of 2018 makes Intermountain the first health system in the United States to formally announce such a significant and specific reduction as a target. 
Powerball Winner Claims Prize, Quits Hospital Job
The winner of the $758 million lottery jackpot called the medical center where she had worked for decades "to tell them I will not be coming back."
Hospices Grapple With Stolen Meds
Several states have passed laws giving hospice staff the power to destroy leftover pills after patients die.
 

AROUND THE WEB

Amid Harvey flooding, hospitals offer ‘islands of humanity’
Source: The Wall Street Journal
The Houston hospital running out of food
Source: The Atlantic
Newborns' hospital care quality may be tied to race
Source: Reuters
German nurse is thought to have killed at least 86, officials say
Source: The New York Times
 

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