Nurses

UPS has been focusing intently on building its logistics capabilities over the past decade. Now, the company is using what it has learned to expand its health care focus. A recent Reuters report says UPS is preparing to test a U.S. service that dispatches nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes,…
Midland Memorial Hospital – Midland, Texas Predictive analytics creates value through nurse staffing system Midland Memorial Hospital’s use of predictive analytics to manage the nursing workforce has resulted in higher patient experience scores, lower labor costs, less overtime and higher nurse…
Also in this roundup of nurse-related news: a chief nursing officer retires after seeing hospital through 50 years of changes, achievements; and executive moves in the field.
Also in this roundup of nursing news: a nurse perseveres through extreme snow to tend to a home-bound patient, and executive moves in the field.
Also in this roundup of nurse-related news: a school nurse saves a student’s life, and executive moves in the field.
The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare will hold its 2019 Compassion in Action Healthcare Conference Sept. 8-10 in Boston.
Also in this weekly roundup of nursing news: video of nurse singing to patient goes viral, and executive moves in the field.
Also in this weekly roundup of nurse-related news: remembering America’s first black nurse, and executive moves in the field.
Also in this weekly roundup of nursing news: a Massachusetts nursing director adopts an infant with neonatal abstinence syndrome, and executive moves in the field. 
The American Organization of Nurse Executives on April 11 will present its 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award to Gail Latimer, a former hospital CEO, nurse executive, consultant and adjunct faculty with more than 30 years of experience in health care.