Top 5 Skills Every Nurse Should Develop Quickly

What are the top five skills that every nurse should develop? Nope! Not those. I imagine many of you reading automatically think about the clinical skills it takes to become a professional nurse. While clinical skills are... read more

Top 5 Skills Every Nurse Should Develop Quickly

Defining the Role of Specialists in Value-Based Health Care

Health care is at a crossroads and under pressure to add value by improving patient experience and health outcomes and reducing costs to the system. Efforts to improve the care model in primary care, such as the patient-centered... read more

Defining the Role of Specialists in Value-Based Health Care

Anesthesiologists Found Underreporting Medication Errors

Medication errors are apparently significantly underreported by anesthesia providers, at least at certain institutions. These recent findings may reflect a culture of underreporting or fear of punitive action, despite the... read more

Anesthesiologists Found Underreporting Medication Errors

2017’s Tell-All Social Media Guide for Doctors and Hospitals

You may have thought "this too shall pass", but now you’ve realized the inevitable truth: social media is here to stay. If you’ve never given social media much thought when it comes to your physician practice... read more

2017’s Tell-All Social Media Guide for Doctors and Hospitals

How to keep up with the scientific literature

Few aspects of scientific work may be as crucial - and yet as easy to neglect - as reading the literature. Beginning a new research project or writing a grant application can be good opportunities for extensive literature... read more

How to keep up with the scientific literature

Genomics, Health Disparities, and Missed Opportunities for the Nation’s Research Agenda

The completion of the Human Genome Project occurred at a time of increasing public attention to health disparities. In 2004, Sankar and colleagues1 suggested that this coincidental timing resulted in an inappropriate emphasis... read more

Genomics, Health Disparities, and Missed Opportunities for the Nation’s Research Agenda

Protocol Lacking for Post-op Delirium

While 70% of anesthesiologists say they "frequently" or "occasionally" encounter postoperative delirium in their practices, more than three-fourths (77%) lack a process to screen for at-risk patients.... read more

Protocol Lacking for Post-op Delirium

Medical residents spend more time using computers than on patient interaction

At a teaching hospital in Switzerland, internal medicine residents spent an average of 52.4% and 47.9% of the day shift and evening shift, respectively, on activities indirectly related to the patient and spent 28.0% and... read more

Medical residents spend more time using computers than on patient interaction

Four ways to reduce dangerous medical errors at your hospital

It's human nature, everyone makes mistakes. But the consequences of those mistakes can range wildly not only according to their severity, but also depending on who commits them. When a marketer makes a typo on a press release,... read more

Four ways to reduce dangerous medical errors at your hospital

Beating the Dunning-Kruger Effect at Its Own Game

Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when individuals assume that their competency in a given area is significantly higher than it is.... read more

Beating the Dunning-Kruger Effect at Its Own Game

New Certifications Confirm Growing Influence Of Knowledge Professionals On Nursing Practice, Patient Care

PCCN-K and CCRN-K credentials from AACN Certification Corporation recognize contributions of nurses who positively influence care delivered to acutely and critically ill patients.... read more

New Certifications Confirm Growing Influence Of Knowledge Professionals On Nursing Practice, Patient Care