For months, SSA has been planning to launch two major systems, the National Appointment Scheduling Calendar (NASC) and the ...

The agency is postponing the rollout of new, national systems the same month they were set to be deployed. It was still ...

A study of neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs) at two level IV NICUs identified competing tasks, poor coordination, frequent interruptions, limited ancillary support, and staff shortages as primary ...

Excess workload has been identified as a root cause of the current health-care crisis in report, after report, after report. Excess workload for front-line staff like ...

The charge nurse is responsible for creating daily nurse/patient assignments, which are informed by the location of the patient within a unit and the clinical judgment of the charge nurse. Assignments ...