Whether you’re a staff nurse or a nurse manager, giving and receiving feedback is essential to your professional journey. Feedback is direct communication that emphasizes your strengths or identifies ...

Effective communication is one of the foundations of good nursing care. The honest forms of nurse-patient communication include verbal and non-verbal communication (e.g., body language, facial ...

Therapeutic communication is the heart of effective nursing, shaping trust, rapport, and patient outcomes. From pediatric wards to psychiatric care, nurses use verbal and nonverbal skills to connect ...

When patients feel nurses are listening to them, they self-report better care outcomes and a happier healthcare experience. Nurse leaders are quite familiar with this question from the HCAHPS survey: ...

Connecting with staff on a personal level is key to nurse manager success. Few would argue that nursing's traditional pathway into management is a sure model for success—promote a strong clinician ...

A workshop at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) helped critical care nurses improve their palliative care communication skills, according to an article in the July issue of the ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wolters Kluwer, Health today released a report that provides a retrospective snapshot of the perceived strengths and weaknesses of nurse graduates signaling a lack in ...

MONTREAL & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UbiSim (www.ubisimvr.com), the world’s first immersive virtual reality (VR) training platform built specifically for nurses and nursing simulation by Labster ...

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago used to rely on paper competency checklists in its nursing professional development. Using paper checklists was challenging and inefficient to ...