Five articles in the last week from the world of healthcare staffing and technology.

Nurses endure low-grade pay

• Key takeaway: Nurses’ salaries statewide were higher than the national average, due to better compensation offered downstate, according to the bureau’s report.

Nurses observe risky shortcuts taken during delivery

• Key takeaway: More than 90 percent of doctors and midwives, and nearly 100 percent of nurses, said they had observed problems within the last year.

Advanced-practice nurses can’t keep power on for at-risk patients

• Key takeaway: Doctors see expansion of scope of practice in APN’s request for authority to stop utilities from shutting off electricity in medical emergencies.

The best hospitals need the best nurses

• Key takeaway: The quality of our nation’s best hospitals relies heavily on the different types and different specialties of the nurses that work there.

Ground breaking new book takes nurses “back to basics”

• Key takeaway: Explores the multifaceted nature of compassion fatigue and burnout, in nursing