When was the last time you heard a nurse yell while on the clock? It may happen more frequently than you think. When you think of “traditional communication” in a hospital, pagers, overhead paging and ...

The study identified communication needs of emergency medicine nurses and physicians, in particular, what information should be conveyed, by whom and the most appropriate time to convey the ...

Two CoxHealth rural hospitals, Cox Barton County and Cox Monett, have received recognition from Becker's Hospital Review, a national publication in the health care industry, for their excellence in ...

A standardized handoff can prevent inconsistent and inaccurate discharge summaries, a new study says. Transition of patients from hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) often results in ...

In their bestselling classic, The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner define leadership as “The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations.” You can’t mobilize ...

Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester Patients’ lives are being put at risk by poor communication from healthcare professionals ...