Credit: Getty Images. Providing nursing students with the opportunity to audit nursing charts in a real-world scenario may change their perspective about the charting process. The entire student audit ...

Charles de Vilmorin and Jennifer Stelter, Psy.D. Job descriptions for activity directors in senior living usually read as follows: “Provide activities that meet the residents’ preferences and needs.” ...

Nurses play an important role on college campuses. Students, especially those who live on campus, need to maintain good health and well-being to achieve academic success. Nurses can provide a variety ...

Nursing as a profession has a social mandate to reduce health inequity in the United States through training, education, research, and even practice. Health equity has been of major concern in the ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...

Although many people don't like to think about death and dying, it will happen eventually. When it does, those who are fortunate enough to have hospice and palliative care nurses caring for them will ...

The nation’s recent failure to respond effectively to COVID-19 is colliding with longstanding challenges to achieve high quality nursing home care. The results thus far have been catastrophic. A ...