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When 2020 was designated the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife,“ no one could have predicted that this fateful year would give us so many reasons to honor nurses and other frontline heroes.

Regardless of the…

If your loved one were hospitalized and nearing the end of life during the COVID-19 crisis, would you want to visit him or her to say good-bye? It’s a hard question to ponder. And one where many loved ones have not had a choice.

For sound reasons of infection control and conserving…

Each May, I write a CNO Perspective report on a topic that’s top of mind for nurse leaders. Last year, I wrote about reducing cognitive load for nurses and other healthcare professionals. I’ve spent the past year speaking and…

It’s an image we’ve all come to dread. A patient is lying alone in a hospital bed. Maybe she is COVID-positive. Maybe she is here because of complications from another condition. She has no loved ones around her – and no hope of visitors, given the restrictive policies designed to keep her, her…

I lead the Vocera technical support organization, overseeing support staff responsible for our customers’ post-deployment…

It’s becoming too common for hospitals to be taking extreme measures to service COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 cases in the face of…

We’ve organized a Vocera COVID-19 Response Task Force to define simple configurations of our technology that customers can use…

Physicians and nurses contend with infectious diseases on a daily basis. The COVID-19 pandemic is putting a spotlight on this issue in part because this virus is so communicable, and also because so much about the illness it causes is unknown. There is a heightened need to protect the people providing care while at the same time optimizing patient throughput.

The focus of Vocera at HIMSS 2020 was to be patient and staff safety.

Patient safety and staff safety together are the bedrock of healthcare. And yet, medical errors remain the third leading cause of death in the United States. And serious workplace violence incidents are four times more…

This month, Vocera® celebrates our 20^th year as a company.

A few months before we were founded, the U.S. Institute of Medicine issued the report, To Err Is Human: Building a…