December 2024 Vol. 19 No. 12

A call to better serve unsheltered patients

I’ve become increasingly concerned by the growing number of patients experiencing homelessness who’ve been coming to our clinic. How can I get involved to offer a nurse’s perspective…

ANA Enterprise News, December 2024

ANCC launches well-being credential In December, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) launched the new Well-Being Excellence™ credential. It aims to assess and enhance well-being programs within healthcare…

Bah humbug: Not from nurses!

“Bah humbug.” It’s the well-known slogan of Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge, who views Christmas and the holidays as…

Ending burnout and stigma in nursing

In January 2024, a Gallup Survey ranked nursing as the most trusted profession in the United States for the 22nd consecutive year. While worthy of celebration, this achievement…

From general to specialized nursing practice

ANA guides recognition, approval of scope and standards of practice The path to becoming a nurse begins with educational preparation to enter the profession by completing curriculum at…

Living with atopic dermatitis

A healthy 4-month-old baby boy of Eurasian descent is exclusively breastfed. This morning, his mother changes him and finds crusty, red oozing blisters covering his back. She calls…

Making things happen

Guide our profession via American Nurses Association and state association service. In my high school yearbook, my senior quote reads, “Some people watch things happen, some people wonder…

New nurse orientation

Onboarding new nurses via recently trained preceptors can prove a daunting task for nurse educators. St. Joseph’s Health developed the Phases of Orientation Checklist to help educators set…

Nurse innovator resources

Eight guidebooks assist in framing and developing ideas. Nurses frequently have insights and innovations relevant across healthcare but might not know how to expand their ideas into concrete…

Take flight

For a nurse who loves to fly, it makes sense to be a flight nurse. Donna Miller, RN, took that idea and…flew with it. She bought an airplane.…

The emergence of AI and practice

Since beginning my doctoral work in 2015, I’ve pursued AI to solve nurse staffing and scheduling challenges. The literature revealed that these issues present some of the most…

Unilateral DIEP flap: Reducing length of stay

Deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap procedures use a patient’s own blood vessels, skin, and fat from the lower abdomen to reconstruct a breast after mastectomy. In 2018,…

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