As short staffing and operations challenges mount, US health system leaders have pivoted to length-of-stay management as an efficiency opportunity to optimize throughput logistics and reduce margin pressures. But is “begin discharge planning for patients upon admission” merely a goal without a plan? Are there key patient throughput drivers applicable…

Clearly, staffing alone is only one component of a comprehensive strategy to improve pandemic-exacerbated healthcare working conditions and essential patient care. In fact, the management of inpatient capacity is the central challenge of today’s leaders and frontline teams. The lack of the ability to consistently and efficiently plan across the…

During this educational webinar, Clinical Nurse Consultant Carley Gardner will share research and evidence-based practices in patient mobility and pressure injury prevention. Participants will be introduced to early mobility concepts and rationale as well as the effects of early mobilization on improved skin outcomes, specifically focusing on bed and support…

Newborn screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) using pulse oximetry has led to significant improvements in child health outcomes. Shortly after CCHD screening was adopted by all 50 states in July 2018, an expert panel met to review remaining challenges and strategies. During this webinar, two CCHD nurse leaders…

This webinar will convene an expert panel to explore the critical need for experienced nurses in the field of informatics—particularly in the growing age of AI and IT influence on medicine and patient care. The complex field of Nursing Informatics is defined as taking “the clinical and the technical languages…

Stress, exhaustion, fear, burnout – nurses are experiencing all these emotions and more in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. When working with interchangeable tubing systems at the bedside, even a slightly increased chance of error is too much risk to accept. On May 4th, please plan to join us…