Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

During the trial, Ms L testified on her care of Jane, and her detailed notes were introduced into evidence, including her notes about the 2 neurologic examinations she performed. Drs S and G both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A poll by the non-partisan health research organization KFF released March 7, 2025, found 82% of those surveyed said Congress ...

The hospital used reports in Epic to discover that nurses were spending more than 30 percent of their 12 hour shifts working in the hospital systems EHR. The hospital formed “Project Joy” in 2017 to ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

Legal nurse consulting enables those working in the field to synthesize experience from the legal and nursing worlds. A legal nurse consultant (LNC) is a registered nurse who serves as a liaison ...

Medscape's Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses allows readers to seek general information from Carolyn Buppert, MSN, JD about legal or professional nursing issues, including advanced practice ...

Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, DNP, RN, vice chair for nursing at the Mayo Clinic, says nursing documentation is undergoing a "fundamental shift." At the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exposition in ...

The Maryland Board of Nursing said it has cleared almost all of the 259 nurses and nursing applicants who may have obtained a Maryland license using fraudulent documents from a scheme revealed in ...