Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. On the eve of a nurses’ strike at Sutter Health and three Los ...

For emergency room patients, a Maryland hospital's new observation unit has lowered length of stay and reduced admission of patients to inpatient care. A new observation unit at Carroll Hospital in ...

On the issue of making decisions about observation levels in the team, a significant majority (over 60%) reported that doctors and nurses made these decisions. Although 9% indicated that these ...

OK, so any nurse reading this will probably relate, but we are so used to observing our patients/residents that we tend to “over observe” when not at work. Case in point: This summer, for some reason ...

Student nurses are not being given the opportunity to practice basic observation techniques while on clinical placements, potentially leading to a major gap in essential skills. Subscribe today to ...