The purpose of a qualified risk management department in healthcare is to assess, monitor, and implement plans and policies in order to decrease their exposure. There are many areas that need to be ...

The “Great Flattening”—or the elimination of middle management roles as a cost-cutting measure—is on the rise across industries, and thousands of mid-career professionals have either been laid off or ...

Nurse managers are the 'CEOs' of their patient care area, and it's the CNO's job to support them, according to this nurse leader. It's a new year, and people all around the world are setting new goals ...

Nurses have always faced unique and complex challenges. In 2022, these challenges were exacerbated by acute and ongoing staffing shortages, demographic changes, bureaucratic and managerial demands, ...

Though the Covid-19 pandemic brought heightened attention to nurses overall, a unique nursing role has been long overlooked and, for the public, largely misunderstood: that of the nurse manager. Like ...

In fall 2022, New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System launched its four-day workweek program for nurse managers. More than a year later, the program continues to improve staff engagement, ...

Jennifer Holmes, MSN, RN, has been named director of risk management and patient safety at Statesville, N.C.-based Iredell Health System. Ms. Holmes has worked at Iredell Health System for five years.

Provider organizations that keep a handle on their nurse managers’ workloads are rewarded with significantly lower registered nurse turnover and reduced workforce spending, according to a recent ...

The four-day workweek has won converts in offices, government agencies, even manufacturing. Now it's making inroads into health care. Since the pandemic, a handful of hospitals, including AtlantiCare ...

Administrative work, perceived stress and the idea of bearing too much responsibility are deterring frontline nurses — especially those at mid-career — from management and leadership roles, according ...

Since the pandemic, hospitals have seen soaring turnover among clinical managers who oversee teams of nurses. Now some hospitals, including... These nurse managers were burnt out. Then their hospital ...