Texas has been selected as the pilot state for rolling out information about the Choosing Wisely campaign. This survey will help us assess knowledge of RNs and APRNs across the state regarding the Choosing Wisely Campaign. The survey will be open until October 31, 2015. Click below for more information and to complete the survey.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Austin, Texas
This summit will highlight key issues in nursing practice, leadership and education. Keynote Speaker Representative Howard will present on legislative support for the needs and efforts of Texas nurses. Free registration and continental breakfast included from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Nurse.com
Nurses are taking a leading role in new worksite-based care delivery and preventive health approaches that could improve quality of care and drive down costs, according to a new policy brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Julie Bird, FierceHealthcare
The nursing shortage 10 years from now won't be as dire as predicted 10 years ago, but new research still predicts a shortage of 130,000 nurses, or a 4 percent shortfall, by 2025.

H. Timothy, The Sentinel Watch: Nursing
Earlier this year, Marie Claire magazine called attention to nursing’s dirty little secret, in a feature story called Mean Girls of the ER: The Alarming Nurse Culture of Bullying and Hazing.

Lena J. Weiner, for HealthLeaders Media
A healthcare economist's prescription for retaining RNs includes creating mentorship positions for older nurses and investing in employee development programs.

Max Green, Becker’s Hospital Reivew
As they operate on the front lines of hospitals and health systems, nurses are poised to create innovative solutions to improve patient outcomes and significantly reduce costs.

Adam Rubenfire, Modern Healthcare
Hospitals generally are leery of hiring nurses right out of school. That's because new nurses lack experience, on-the-job training is expensive and they often can't be immediately placed in the most demanding areas such as the intensive-care unit, the operating room or the emergency department.

Julie Bird, FierceHealthcare
Demand for experienced nurses continues to grow, as vacancy rates have more than doubled in recent years at hospitals around the country.

Ilene MacDonald, Fierce Healthcare
Fears of a "looming" global crisis of antibiotic resistant superbugs intensified this week as new data reveals alarming rates of bacteria resistant to last resort antibiotics that can lead to life-threatening infections across the world.

Laura Ungar and Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
Chronic disease is a modern plague: Nearly half of adults have either diabetes or pre-diabetes, one in three suffers from high blood pressure and more than two-thirds are overweight or obese.

Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News via CNN
It's a common complaint – if you spend a night in the hospital, you probably won't get much sleep. There's the noise. There's the bright fluorescent hallway light.

H. Timothy, The Sentinel Watch: Nursing
For many nurses, particularly those who work in hospitals, the work environment is fast-paced and unpredictable, requiring complex thought processes.

Nurse.com
Vaccine exemption levels for kindergartners are low for most states and infant vaccination rates are high nationally, according to data from two reports published in August in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Ilene MacDonald, FierceHealthcare
In an effort to improve patient satisfaction, most hospitals rely on the national Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey to gauge patients' perspectives on care.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
Vanderbilt's executive CNO describes how the medical center made patient-centered care an integral part of its organization's culture rather than just a buzzword.

Jason Furman and Matt Fiedler, The White House
New data released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation show that premium growth in employer-sponsored coverage remained slow in 2015, extending the recent streak of unusually slow growth.

Scott Clement, Washington Post
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Hillary Clinton issued her defense of the Affordable Care Act and proposals to change the landmark health law, signaling the next battle in a war with all the signs of a political stalemate.

Beatriz Alvarado, Caller Times
Jason Lott was the second student to have enrolled in the eLine Military program when it launched in 2010 at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Through a Health Resources and Services Administration grant, he was hired as the program’s first official recruiter in September.

Cleburne Times Review
Texas Health Resources recently announced the selection of Lorrie Normand, DNP, as the next president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne.

Tom Sullivan, Healthcare IT News
The ultimate irony of a long-standing ICD-10 to Y2K comparison is that – after all the years of debate, disdain and doomsday predictions – it now appears that the go-live will likely pass after the same fashion that Y2K did: imperfectly but more or less quietly.

Rene Letourneau, HealthLeaders Media
Provider organizations are tackling social issues in order to help patients better manage their health and to avoid incurring government penalties.