By Lupe Puente BSN, RN, District 8 Board Member TONE, President SCTONE
Personal commitment is imperative when it comes to quality and safety. The level of accountability has to begin by each member of the healthcare team recognizing we have to hold each other personally responsible for quality care and safe patient care. Patient centered care is "providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values, and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions" (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2012, p. 3).

Laura Dyrda, Becker's Hospital Review
The American Organization of Nurse Executives has released the 2016 edition of its "Salary and Compensation Study for Nurse Leaders" report.

Kelly Gooch, Becker's Hospital Review
Hospitals employing a greater proportion of professionally qualified nurses relative to the number of nursing assistants have better outcomes for patients and nurses, according to a new European study published in the scientific journal BMJ Quality and Safety.

Victoria S. Cate, MSN, RN-BC, ADVANCE
The news reports during the week of October 3, 2016, stated that Hurricane Matthew, which had just caused widespread destruction in the Caribbean, was moving up the coast and was headed straight toward the state of Florida, where I was employed as a nurse navigator for a large, multi-hospital system in Jacksonville.

Kay Linder, Minority Nurse
When it comes to finessing a resume, candidates typically try to answer key questions posed by (or implied by) the job description itself.

Genevieve Diesing, Hospitals & Health Networks
As millennials assume their leading role in the workforce, health care leaders find ways to groom them for the management ranks.

Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC, nurse.com
Through all the changes in the 21st century, nurses remain the backbone and lifeblood of healthcare.

Nancy J. Brent, MS, JD, RN, nurse.com
In today’s world, we are much more aware of instances of bullying, harassment, intimidation and threats, and there’s no doubt that good interpersonal skills in all healthcare settings can mitigate those issues and aid surgical patient outcomes.

Ricki Lewis, PhD, Medscape
Substituting nursing assistants for professional nurses in acute care hospitals in Europe is linked to poorer quality of care and increased mortality, according to a report published online November 15 in BMJ Quality & Safety.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
Patient advisory committees can steer hospitals and health systems toward providing patient-centered care and achieving outcomes such as higher HCAHPS scores, stronger reputation, and improved quality and safety ratings.

Katherine Kenny, DNP, RN, Healthcare Informatics
Nursing’s role in healthcare today is more important than ever before.

Amy Keller, Daily Nurse
During the course of a typical 12-hour shift, and depending on the unit, the bedside nurse may encounter hundreds, if not thousands, of alarms generated by patient monitoring equipment.

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Susan Morse, Healthcare Finance News
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released its list of 97 measures under consideration for quality reporting for inpatient, outpatient, long-term care and other services and programs such as Medicare Shared Savings and the merit-based incentive payment system.

Everything Lubbock
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Nursing Professor Susan Calloway, Ph.D., FNP, is the recipient of the 2016 Texas Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award.

Chron.com
Two Harris Health System nurses are among the 20 Outstanding Nurses for 2016, an award given by the Texas Nurses Association, District 9.

Julie Rovner and Chad Terhune, Kaiser Health News
Six years into building its business around the Affordable Care Act, the nation’s $3 trillion health care industry may be losing that political playbook.

Janice Williams, International Business Times
It’s a great time to be a nurse in the United States.