By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN This past weekend, Dr. Tim Porter O'Grady (a nurse futurist) spent time with our emerging nurse leader students and their preceptors discussing the changing role of the nurse leader in the new evolving health-care delivery system. One significant change in health reform is the movement of reimbursement away from a focus on the volume of … [Read more...]
Achieving the Best Care at Lower Cost
"Health care in America has experienced an explosion in knowledge, innovation and capacity to manage previously fatal conditions. Yet, paradoxically, it falls short on such fundamentals as quality, outcomes, costs and equity." IOM Report on Best Care at Lower Cost By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN The business of caring has become both complex and expensive. … [Read more...]