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Five articles in the last week from the world of healthcare staffing and technology.
HIT from a nurse’s perspective: Put us at the development table
- Key takeaway: The use of technology in nursing has become something they can’t live without, but technology must be better integrated into nursing education.
Nursing shortage prompts campuses to seek more instructors
- Key takeaway: Predictions of a massive nursing shortage within 20 years are prompting four University of Wisconsin System nursing schools to crank up efforts to train more instructors so they can expand enrollments and cope with looming faculty retirements.
Care coordination a cost-cutting quality driver
- Key takeaway: How common now is comprehensive care coordination in hospitals and health systems?
Hospital groups strike back at hospital rating systems
- Key takeaway: As hospitals grow increasingly frustrated with contradictory commercial rating systems that grade, score, and rank their quality of care, the Association of American Medical Colleges and other hospital groups are striking back.
Worrying shortage of senior NHS nurses
- Key takeaway: The void includes ward sisters, community matrons and specialist nurses and has been brought about by cost saving reorganisation, it says.
