Staffing Shortages, Less Direct Patient Care and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Factors in Nurse Burnout When you ask children these days what they want to be when they grow up, many say an astronaut, firefighter or teacher. The most popular answer used to be doctor or...
Sometimes, a high number is a good thing. Take, for example, a test score or an IQ. Other times, it can spell trouble. A prime example of this is the United States’ current consumer price index (CPI), a measure of inflation. The CPI is at its highest level in almost...
The United States healthcare industry employs approximately 22 million individuals and accounts for roughly 15 percent of all of the nation’s workers. That figure includes more than one million professionally-active physicians, almost 4.2 million registered nurses...
In its Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century report, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) listed one of its “Aims for Improvement” as healthcare being efficient. In summary, the goal of this efficiency is reducing...
