For an organization to be successful, develop and treat frontline charge nurse leaders as a strategic part of intentional succession planning. This is an excerpt from The Charge Nurse Leader Program ...

The best place to start when planning leadership training courses for your charge nurses. Leadership training is an essential component to training a charge nurse. Orienting charge nurses to the role ...

We’ve seen it happen in hospitals across the country all too frequently – a front-line nursing leadership vacancy occurs and all of a sudden a department leader must scramble to find a replacement.

This article originally appeared in the January 2025 issue of Vital Signs. Nurse leaders are some of the most vital players in the healthcare scene. Their roles can take on many different meanings and ...

Today more than ever, we hear about the importance of PROACTIVE approaches to prevent as many unfavorable events as possible. One of the key essential proactive approaches that we can implement is to ...

Clinical nurse staffing is one of the most vital to a hospital's operations. Nurses are the primary clinician overseeing a patient's safety, care and well-being throughout the day. Clinical nurses ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was the hardest challenge I have faced in my short time as a registered nurse. I was the full-time charge nurse of a cardiac/telemetry unit at AHN Saint Vincent Hospital when the ...

The next section contains "pearls of wisdom," which may help guide others who are in some phase of development or evaluation of the RRT phenomenon. Some are derived from the literature and others by ...

Nurses have been a part of every aspect of care with the coronavirus pandemic — taking care of patients, communicating with families, writing health guidelines, spreading public health messages, and ...