Physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician associates (PAs) enhance different aspects of patient care quality, a new Yale and Fair Haven Community Health Care study finds. Researchers evaluated ...

PHILADELPHIA — The rollout of so-called virtual nurses in hospitals remains a mixed bag, University of Pennsylvania researchers have found in the largest survey to date on nursing care delivered ...

A new Penn Nursing Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) study—published in INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing—has found a strong association ...

Having more nurses can save lives and improve the overall quality of care, despite hospitals often having varying numbers of nurses per patient, the National Institute of Nursing Research said. In a ...

Hiring a more diverse nurse workforce may help address "racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes" and improve maternal health, according to a report from Columbia University ...

Nurse practitioners are just as good as primary care doctors at avoiding potentially harmful prescriptions for older patients -- but both need to do better, a large, new study suggests. Nurse ...

A new academic study says mandating nurse-to-patient ratios would save lives, improve overall outcomes for patients, and alleviate the staffing crisis in Ontario’s hospitals. Based on an extensive ...

Though patients who experience cardiac arrest in hospitals have a greater chance of early intervention, less than a quarter of patients survive such incidents. A study published in Medical Care has ...

A Georgia State University study, funded by Vizzia Technologies, examined how RTLS technology can benefit hospital workers. Findings indicate technology that workers can easily work with, and that ...

A new study on nurse staffing in BMJ found that the hazard of death increased by 3% for every day a patient experienced nurse staffing levels below England's ward mean. Researchers looked at over ...