November 2011 Vol. 6 No. 11
ANA launches Healthy Nurse program
ANA offers even more ways to be engaged online
ANA has launched the Boundless Voices action site for Facebook, which integrates ANA’s online advocacy tools with Facebook’s social network.
Awash in “bath salts”: The dangers and skyrocketing use of mephedrone
Banned in September, this designer stimulant can cause dangerous side effects and death.
Benzocaine puts a patient in a bind
Methemoglobinemia from benzocaine exposure causes tissue hypoxia.
Detecting and screening for depression in older adults
Don’t assume depression is a normal finding in elderly patients.
ECRI names top 10 health technology hazards for 2012
ED nurses continue to be victims of workplace violence according to new report
Emergency nursing: A specialty unlike any other
The president of the Emergency Nurses Association tells why she’s proud to be an emergency nurse.
FDA allows marketing of first system to repair failed or problematic aortic endografts
FDA approves first drug for myelofibrosis
FDA approves first generic version of Lipitor
FDA drops certain restrictive requirements for Nplate and Promacta
FDA launches new website on safe disposal of ‘sharps’
Four drugs or drug types account for most adverse events resulting in emergency hospitalizations
From Your ANA President
ANA promotes nursing research through its National Center for
Nursing Quality, the American Nurses Foundation, and integration
of research into practice and policy.
HbA1c poor way to identify children with diabetes
How working nights can work in your favor
Improving outcomes in med-surg patients with opioid-induced respiratory depression
Myth debunking and better recognition of respiratory compromise can help prevent deaths.
Never fear—the critical-care resource nurse is here
Creating a critical-care resource nurse role has helped one hospital
ensure that critically ill patients get the same level of care no
matter where they’re admitted.
Nonfatal occupational injuries among healthcare workers increase
November 2011 References
Quantum ethics: Coming to grips with the dark side
Nurses have an ethical duty to address the web of relationships,
expectations, and egocentrism that influences them.
RNs stay close to home after graduation
Rotating night shifts may increase risk of type 2 diabetes
Strategies for a successful semester
The evolving role of the forensic nurse
Even if they’re not portrayed on the TV shows "CSI" or "Law &
Order: SVU," forensic nurses are pivotal in real-life forensic cases.
Catch up on the dynamic, evolving specialty of forensic nursing.
The practice of ethics
More nurses skilled in ethics are needed to help nurses cope with on-the-job ethical dilemmas.
The quality nexus: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Tips for applying to an advanced-degree nursing program
Transforming care through health information technology
Editor-in-Chief Pam Cipriano interviews the nation’s health IT "czar" on
nurses’ role in transforming health care through the electronic health record.
Trust in the workplace: Build it, break it, mend it
The authors reveal how to rate trust levels and
betrayal risk on your unit—and what to do if you
breach a colleague’s trust.