ANA Insights
‘Tis the season…to immunize
‘PAWSitive’ interventions ease ‘rrrf’ times in pediatrics
“Bundle” up to prevent pressure ulcers
Find out how to start a pressure ulcer prevention program on your unit or in your facility.
“Meeting Mondays” boosts staff nurses’ committee participation
Designating one day a month for meetings increased frontline nurses’ involvement in committees and councils.
#EndNurseAbuse—Help is on the way
#WeAreFirstline
10 tips to boost employee engagement
Employee engagement begins with an organization’s leaders… Management expert Ken Blanchard once said, “What motivates people is what motivates people” meaning that each person is motivated in his or her own way and by his or her own unique aspirations and preferences.
110th Congress wrap up
The 110th Congress adjourns with a mixed record on healthcare.
125 years of progress
20 million strong
2008 state legislative wrap-up
Legislatively, 2008 was a good year for nursing. In many states, safe nurse staffing laws, mandatory overtime restrictions, and safe patient-handling legislation got the thumbs-up.
2008: The year of pro-nurse advocates
To help elect pro-nursing candidates, volunteer for campaign work and urge everyone you know to vote.
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (01.04.10)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (01.08.10)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (02.02.2010)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (11.09.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (11.20.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (12.04.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (12.11.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu: Situation Update (10.14.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu: Situation Update (10.23.2009)
2009: H1N1 Flu: Situation Update (10.16.09)
2018 nursing trends and salary survey results
2019 ANA Innovation Award winners update
2019 Magnet® Application Manual raises the bar for nursing excellence
In October 2017, the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program® released the 2019 Magnet® Application Manual, the 12th application manual in the 27-year history of the program. It builds upon the foundation of seminal research conducted in the early 1980s that led to the creation of the program, but it also incorporates contemporary standards that address challenges faced globally by healthcare organizations today.
2020 ANA Innovation Award winners update
4 million reasons
5 reasons why pandemics will be more frequent
5 steps to interim manager success
A bold call to action: Mobilizing nurses and employers to prevent and address incivility, bullying, and workplace violence
A case study of a managers’ workshop
A contemporary look at gerontological nursing
A conversation about the ethics of staffing
A conversation with Patricia Flatley Brennan
A conversation with Rep. Lois Capps
A growing population
A hospital’s Magnet® redesignation drive spurs efforts to improve patient safety
Magnet appraisers’ questions increase the author’s determination to reduce patient falls.
A journey of healing
A kinder, gentler workplace
A kinder, gentler workplace
A kinder, gentler workplace, part 2: Impatience
A kinder, gentler workplace, part 3: The generation gap
A leader’s guide to implementing evidence-based practice
A look back—and ahead
A medication dosage simulation strategy to improve patient safety
A model for ethical decision-making in management
A new patient-acuity tool promotes equitable nurse-patient assignments
When a 2 acuity rating isn’t truly a 2
A nurse-driven community education program for older adults
A nurse’s guide to food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens
A nurse’s inappropriate language—an ethical issue
A nursing recognition program gets a makeover
A quantum life
Quantum theory explains how you create your life through what you choose to think, then intend and, ultimately, do.
A question of conscience
A question of disclosure: RNs often struggle with revealing their health conditions to employers
A ROADMAP involves patients and families in the plan of care
This electronic tool keeps patients and families informed on key aspects of care.
A roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hope
To reinvent health care, we need down-to-earth help and a roll-up-your sleeves kind of hope.
A system’s Pathway to Excellence® journey
A veteran and an entrepreneur
A viral collision
A whack on the side of the head
The last iteration of repealing and replacing Obamacare has gone down in failure because of Republicans appalled by cost and Democrats obsessed with numbers of Americans without access. I think repeal and replace keeps coming up because the narrative never changes. What Congress needs is a new way of thinking—a whack on the side of the head.
A Year of Gifts
Our editor-in-chief reviews important accomplishments in the past year and presents a nursing "wish list".
AACN endorses white paper on medication reconciliation
Academy recognizes nurse leaders for contributions
Accommodating and building bridges
Accountability: A concept worth revisiting
Where a culture of accountability exists, people do what they say they’ll do. This article describes how to promote accountability.
Achieving Magnet® designation: From preparation to pride
Adapting a professional practice model
Addressing moral distress and resilience in nursing
Addressing the opioid epidemic
Advance care planning across the care continuum
Advancing adoption of the electronic health record
Experts at the federal level are working to actualize the promise of health information technology.
Advancing shared governance during a pandemic
Advancing toward an 80% BSN workforce by 2020
Learn about the steps one Connecticut hospital is taking to increase its BSN nurses.
Adventures in virtual meetings
Tired of unproductive staff meetings held at inconvenient times? Had it up to here with being interrupted when trying to express your opinion? Maybe it’s time to explore alternatives to the traditional in-person meeting. One hospital unit did just that, and their online meeting forum helped them create new protocols in record time.
Adverse event reporting and root cause analysis
Advice for millennial nurses
Advocacy agenda
Advocacy for all
Advocacy: A lifetime commitment
Advocacy: A modest proposal
Nurses are with patients during some of the most important moments in their lives.
Advocating for access to safe, quality care
Advocating for nurses on boards
As part of its ongoing initiative sponsored by the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation to recognize nurses in board leadership roles, the American Nurses Foundation interviewed Cole Edmonson, DNP, RN, FACHE, NEA-BC, FAAN. Edmonson is the chief nursing officer (CNO) at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, a three-time designated Magnet® hospital.
Advocating for patients in an era of drug-delivery problems
Learn what steps you can take to help patients avoid drug contamination and cope with drug shortages.
Affirmation of focused practice competencies
In August 2017, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Board of Directors approved the inclusion of an additional component to ANA’s newly revised recognition of a nursing specialty, approval of a specialty’s scope of practice statement, and acknowledgment of standards of a specialty practice program. The new component, affirmation of focused practice competencies, provides a formal review process for identifying the specific knowledge, skills, abilities,accountability, and judgment deemed important for professional practice success, interprofessional collaborative practice and team success, and achievement of defined outcomes.
Afraid at work
Agendas for change
Air Force recognizes CRNAs’ full scope of practice
The U.S. Air Force releases a new policy on anesthesia delivery.
Aligning values and board service
All for one, and one for all
Let’s validate and value the contributions of foreign-educated nurses who come to this country seeking opportunities to practice.
Amazing you!
Ambulance diversions increase mortality
A new study finds that ED diversion is associated with increased mortality.
America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
Make a difference join ANA’s Health Care Reform Team
American Nurses Foundation: Worthy of support
When you donate to the American Nurses Foundation, you're investing in your own future and the future of the nursing profession.
An activity menu for older adults
An inside look at Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation’s inaugural year
An invitation to error
What happens when you’re short staffed and there isn’t anyone to help?
An ounce of prevention
ANA ‘joins forces’ with first lady to help veterans
The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) partnered to facilitate and coordinate a collective voice of the nursing profession in full support of "Joining Forces,"
ANA ACTION ALERT: Proposed regulations could mean big opportunity for nurses
ANA addresses nurse-specific measures in health IT
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has long supported nurse-specific measures in health IT
ANA addresses shift work
ANA position statements address the hazards of shift work.
ANA advocates for nurses’ health and safety
ANA and HIMSS join forces to advance nurse-led innovation
ANA awards five hospitals for outstanding nursing quality
ANA becomes organizational affiliate of AcademyHealth
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is now an organizational affiliate of AcademyHealth
ANA calls for creating a culture of safety throughout health care
ANA comments on ACOs
ANA endorses Hillary Clinton for President
ANA endorses Kid Safe Chemicals Act
ANA ensures nurses are at the table on healthcare reform
With President Obama pledging to reform the healthcare system, ANA leaders are taking part in high-level discussions to
ensure that nurses are represented in the debate.
ANA enterprise and foundation news: February 2020
ANA honors hospitals for outstanding quality
Which hospitals won the 2010 NDNQI® Award for Outstanding Nursing
Quality Indicators®
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.
ANA participates in International Panel on Safe Patient Handling
ANA pays it forward
ANA President Attends White House Meeting
ANA releases 2011 Health and Safety Survey results
ANA’s new survey identifies nurses’ concerns about health and safety in their work environments.
ANA Revises Two of Its Foundational Nursing Publications
ANA Seeking 2010 National Nurses Week Theme Ideas
ANA sharps injury prevention stakeholder group
ANA signs on to letter affirming positive change in U.S. Public Health Service
ANA signs a letter of concern about proposed creation of an Office of the National Nurse.
ANA supports safe patient handling measures in Congress
“The Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2009” (H.R. 2381) gets ANA approval.
ANA supports Tavenner to head CMS
ANA task force to evaluate membership dues
ANA urges Congress to invest in domestic nursing education, not immigration
ANA urges Congress to invest in nursing workforce development. ANA endorses the Nursing School Capacity Act.
ANA urges nurses to volunteer before disaster strikes
In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake on Jan. 12, many nurses felt the urgent need to jump on a plane and hit the ground in Haiti to help treat and comfort the survivors, but were not sure how to go about it.
ANA works to remove legal barriers to APRN practice
ANA’s 125th anniversary
ANA’s Health Risk Appraisal: Three years later
Anatomy lesson 101
ANA’s National Center for Nursing Quality promotes nursing quality and patient safety while helping nurses advocate for themselves.
ANCC honors clinicians with first annual Magnet® Nurse of the Year Awards
Announcing ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition
Antimicrobial stewardship and you
Applying a systematic approach to new-product assessment
Take the spontaneity out of new-product purchases to control costs and keep patients safe.
Applying the Magnet™ model to improve medication safety
A Baltimore hospital used the five Magnet components as a framework for
transforming its bedside medication administration process. Involving directcare
nurses in decision making was a key aspect of the project.
Archived webinar on teaching IOM reports in the classroom now available on ANA’s NursesBooks.org
On February 23, more than 350 educators from top U.S. nursing schools tuned in to view Nursesbooks.org’s one-hour webinar featuring ANA’s popular quality title, Teaching IOM: Implications of the Institute of Medicine Reports for Nursing Education.
Are you confident about confidence intervals?
The confidence interval yields information on how confident
researchers are about the success of a studied intervention.
Aromatherapy: Essential oils and nursing
Artificial intelligence in nursing
Assessing nurses’ competency to achieve highly reliable care
Assessing the ethical climate: An environmental scan
At CHI, nurse board leadership is embedded in the culture
Attaining a culturally congruent practice
Attaining Magnet status
The authors explain the program that has brought Magnet success to seven hospitals – so far.
Attitude adds to a toxic work environment
Attitude: The power of human energy
Our thoughts, feelings, and disposition influence other people, not just because people see and read our facial expressions or body language, but because thoughts themselves are energy.
Autonomy and the patient’s right to choose falls prevention
Avoiding career derailers
Avoiding copyright violations in educational presentations
What you don’t know about copyright can get you into legal jeopardy.
Avoiding flu complacency
AWHONN releases new staffing guidelines
Banner Simulation Medical Center: Using simulation to set up new nurses for success
Bassett Medical Center wins 2011 Magnet Prize®
Battery recycling: Nursing’s role
A battery recycling program can decrease the health and environmental risks of inappropriate battery disposal.
Battling burnout and languishing
Before blowing the whistle, learn to protect yourself
Don’t let fear of reprisal stop you from reporting serious misconduct.
Behind the curtain: Creating an in situ simulation experience
Go "behind the curtain" to learn how simulation is being used to prepare hospital-based nurses for urgent situations.
Being a nurse, but also a daughter or son to our aging parents
Benefits of feedback for nurse leaders
Best practices for seasonal influenza immunization
Beyond a box of chocolates
Beyond a box of chocolates
Beyond an interesting “read”
Nurse authors call on educators to incorporate IOM findings into education, practice.
Beyond customer service
Many nurses don’t like to hear their patients called “customers” or be told to provide “customer service.” This expert explains how to lose the lingo and adapt the principles of customer service to patient care.
Beyond thank you: The powerful reach of meaningful recognition
Bisphenol A update
Found in products we use every day, bisphenol A can have dangerous effects. ANA continues to advocate the chemical banned.
Blood transfusions: How technology can improve patient safety
Testing a prototype identification system leads to 100% acuracy.
Blood-borne pathogen exposure injuries
Boosting your influence
Boot camp can help prepare nurses for Magnet® appraiser visits
Brain science gives holistic care a new aura of legitimacy
Breaking competitive barriers: The Colorado Magnet® Collaborative
A regional collaborative allows sharing of best practices and
nurtures professional nursing.
Breaking down diversability barriers to improve patient well-being
Breathe new life into unit staff meetings
Revive humdrum unit meetings by setting compelling themes and having staff members present agenda items.
Breathing life back into a medical ethics committee
Brief overview of ANA political action committee
Brighter days ahead
Bring on the heat!
Unit nurses take a creative approach to solving a clinical practice problem.
Bringing nursing orientation back to life
Brought to you by NDNQI: Data that do good
Thanks to the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, hospitals and nurses are capturing and converting into data what nurses actually do and how their actions affect patient care.
BSN in ten
Building a sense of community on nursing units
Building a strong shared governance foundation
Building a successful behavioral emergency support team
Building collaboration between CNOs and direct-care nurses
Collaboration hinges on mutual trust and respect. To nurture these attributes, the chief nursing officer must appreciate others’ contributions, use the skillsets of nurses at different knowledge levels, and involve staff in shared governance.
Building moral resilience and healthy environments
Building programs to reduce sharps injuries from insulin injection
Building the case for chemical policy reform
Building trust in your leadership
Building your resiliency
Bullies in health care beware
Bullies in health care beware.
C-suite executives believe ACA will improve health care
C.A.R.E. to prevent medical device related pressure injuries
Calculating and interpreting the odds ratio
Researchers use the odds ratio to analyze which of two groups of individuals
is more likely to have an adverse outcome. Find out how to calculate the
odds ratio and interpret its significance
Call for action: Nurses lead and transform palliative care
Called to serve
Calming the chaos: Simulated code interdisciplinary team training
Can teach-back reduce hospital readmissions?
A study shows this method helps educators focus on topics the patient doesn’t fully grasp.
Can you fire a patient?
Care during crisis
ANA brings nurses, experts together to shape practice policy during disasters
Care without gaps
Care, not chaos
A new document created by ANA and other groups delineates emergency care principles for psychiatric patients.
Carefronting: An innovative approach to managing conflict
Caring and advocating for school children
Caring for older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adults
Carrots and sticks
Case study: Coerced consent
“Coercion is commonly said to invalidate consent, and that is always true if the source of the coercion is the physician.
Case Study: How much is enough?
Case Study: When is what you know considered confidential?
Catching up to stay ahead
CDC publishes updates to immunization schedules for children and adults
Celebrate National Nurses Week
ANA has selected “Nurses: Caring Today for a Healthier Tomorrow” as this year’s theme for National Nurses Week
Celebrating global Year of the Nurse in 2020
Celebrating nurse innovators
Celebrating nurse leaders in government
Celebrating our profession and looking to the future
Celebrating our profession during National Nurses Week
Central venous catheter dressings put to the test
A nursing team’s research findings lead to hospital-wide savings.
Change for the better
Change maker
Changing injury trends related to diabetes and insulin injection
This article is the first in a two-part series brought to you in partnership with the International Safety Center.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 30 million people live with diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes, and the American Diabetes Association estimates that 1.5 million Americans are newly diagnosed with diabetes every year.
Chaplains as connectors
Charge Nurse University: Preparing future nurse leaders
A leadership development program helps staff nurses with high leadership potential become the hospital’s next nurse leaders.
Charting a path forward: Results and recommendations from ANA’s SPHM environmental scan
Chemical soup
ANA and state associations work to protect nurses and the environment from chemicals.
Chemicals before breakfast
Why the cosmetics industry needs a makeover.
Cherish the differences
Chief nurse officer takes on full range of public health issues
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia partners with schools to promote healthy lifestyles
Choosing your political battles
Claiming our rights
Climate Change
Nursing confronts climate change.
Climate courage
CMA lobbyists discuss hot topics in the states
In 2009, patient safety, health care, safe staffing, and nursing advancement will top ANA’s list of legislative priorities.
CMA Lobbyists plan to protect nurses, patients, and public from harmful chemicals.
CMS awards funding for APRN training
CMS broadens ‘medical staff’ concept to include APRNs
CNO-CFO collaboration for safe nurse staffing
Coaching Communication: Tips for nurse managers
One key element of performance management is coaching staff to improve behavior. In this section on coaching communication, I will share ideas for how you as a manager can coach employees via your day-to-day conversations.
Collaboration brings an innovative approach to nursing education
Working with local hospitals, a Texas consortium of nursing schools developed learning modules to improve new nurse graduates’ preparation for practice.
Collaboration: Get better care, go home sooner, live longer
Collaboration: The key to healthcare transformation
Collective genius as a tool for engagement and improvement
Combating medication verification workarounds in an electronic world
Combatting stress
Coming to a location near you: Community paramedics
Communicating with intubated patients: A new approach
Learn how one hospital improved communication between nurses and intubated patients through the use of an algorithm,
new communication devices, and a focused communications course for nurses.
Communication for coordination
Comparing Pathway to Excellence® and Magnet Recognition® Programs
Compassion holds everything together
Despite our physical separation from each other, we’re still all connected and react to what happens to each other. Compassion is the unifying force that holds it all together.
Compassion: A nurse’s primary virtue
Compassionate Connections
Competency-based orientation of Magnet® program directors
Confronting the fear of missing out
Congress considers mental health parity legislation
Congress passes National Alzheimer’s Project Act
Conscience, legalism, and the clash of rights
Considering the COVID-19 syndemic
Constructive feedback and disciplinary action
Contribute to building nursing research and enhancing safe, quality practice
Control your practice and health care’s future
COVID-19 and palliative care
COVID-19 exposed our deficiencies
COVID-19 vaccines: What you need to know
Create a great work culture
For a successful leader, establishing the right environment isn’t part of the job. It is the job.
Creating a Magnet® culture using the ANA Code of Ethics
One hospital’s Magnet workgroup used a Code of Ethics program to transform nursing practice.
Creating a self-sustaining professional culture of quality
To earn Magnet redesignation, a hospital must be able to sustain a professional culture of quality. A nurse leader at one hospital describes how her nursing staff has done just that.
Creating a smooth move for patients and staff
When Missouri Baptist Medical Center had to relocate nearly 200 patients in a single day, staff and leaders knew collaboration and planning would be key. Here’s how they did it.
Creating ethical environments in nursing
To uphold workplace ethics, leaders must send the message that unethical behavior is never acceptable, no matter who’s demonstarting it.
Creating high-performance interprofessional teams
Creating moral space for nurses
Creating more than just a journal club
How to create an innovative journal club – and keep it going.
Crime doesn’t pay
Fraud and abuse account for up to 10% of U.S. healthcare expenditures.
What should you do if you suspect potential healthcare fraud or abuse?
Cultivating high-quality abstracts, manuscripts, and presentations
Culture trifecta: Building the infrastructure for Magnet® and just culture
At one community hospital, nurses, physicians, and administrators worked together to build the infrastructure for Magnet® and just culture into their organization, aiding their pursuit of healthcare excellence.
Current and future newborn screening
Newborn screening illustrates what can happen when genetic testing converges with ethics and electronic health records
Data science for nurses
Day in the Life: Live tweets as a professional tool
Dealing with difficult people
Dear Members of Congress
In an open letter to Congress, Dr. Cipriano urges legislators to leverage nurses’ knowledge, skills, and abilities to help bring order to a chaotic healthcare system.
Dedicated education units: Advancing nurse preparation
Defeating horizontal violence in the emergency department
The authors share how they defused horizontal violence in their ED.
Defending yourself through documentation
Complete, objective, and accurate documentation of the care you provide can help you avert or defend against lawsuits.
Déjà vu all over again
Some people simply can’t learn from the past—even the fairly recent and painful past.
Delegating without doubts
With this decision tree as your guide, you’ll delegate tasks to assistive personnel with confidence.
Demystifying literature reviews
Every nurse should understand evidence-based practice and the terms used in literature reviews.
Designing a sustainable research strategy
Develop millennial leaders with generation collaboration
Developing a leadership legacy
Developing a mentor program to improve support and retention
Developing and expanding APRN and PA teams
Developing leaders: A shared responsibility
Developing shared governance leaders
Differences among physicians, risk managers in admitting errors
Differences in attitudes among physicians and risk managers about revealing medical errors to patients may diminish the effectiveness of such disclosures, according to a new study published in the March 2010 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Differentiating research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement
All nurses should know and understand the differences among these three concepts.
Difficult and frustrating? Caring for those with chronic and complex conditions
Digital dashboards and staffing
Many healthcare organizations use digital “dashboards” to provide employees with real-time data collected from various sources, helping to guide decisions and improve the quality of care. Increasingly, dashboards also are being used to support effective staffing decisions.
Disaster preparedness! Professional Preparedness!
Discovering your true north
Disposal dilemmas in home health care
Learn the proper way to dispose of sharps and waste pharmaceuticals used in the home.
Diversifying the nation’s behavioral health workforce
Do Magnet facilitites maintain their “magnetism”?
Nursing researchers investigated 41 facilities to determine whether they maintained thier “Magnetism” after earning Magnet designation.
Do the right thing
“Doing the right thing is not easy, but it needs to be done,” observed Captain Jacqlyn Sanchez, RNCOB, as she recalled a difficult time in her career with the U.S. Air Force. “My decisions were not popular at that time,” she said, “and I felt defeated and powerless.” Fortunately, a close friend and fellow nurse, Major (Ret.) Dana Albalate, gave Sanchez the motivation she needed to make those hard decisions and move forward. “She told me, ‘Just be yourself,’” Sanchez explained. “‘Your work will speak for itself.’”
Do you hear what I hear? Combating alarm fatigue
Do you know the schedule for vaccinating children?
Learn how to promote pediatric immunizations in your practice. Part of ANA’s Bringing Immunity to Every Community campaign. this handout stresses the importance of vaccinating children and their caregivers, parents, and siblings.
Do you know the vaccination requirements for adolescents and adults?
This handout, part of ANA's Bringing Immunity to Every Community campaign,
provides the tools you need to ensure that adolescents and adults
get appropriate vaccinations.
Do you know which vaccines are recommended for special populations?
Pregnant and postpartum women, immunocompromised
children, and persons at high risk for flu-related complications have special immunization needs. Part of ANA’s Bringing
Immunity to Every Community campaign, this handout
explains how to help ensure that these vulnerable populations are protected.
Do you remember when?
Do you want to be a preceptor?
Doctor shopping and prescription substance use disorders: A nursing response
Documentation: You’ve got a lot to lose
Does a right to refuse treatment include a right to demand it?
Does evidence-based nursing increase ROI?
A quality-improvement initiative quantified return on investment (ROI) from cost avoidance for five healthcare-acquired conditions.
Doing the most good
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 provides many benefits.
Don’t tolerate disruptive physician behavior
No matter if you like – or fear – a doctor who behaves badly, you must report the incident for the sake of the staff, the patients, the institution.
Don’t forget ‘and mobility’
Mobility is an integral component of safe patient handling.
Don’t say “no” to yourself
Doubling or tripling of Americans with diabetes
Driving staffing solutions
Driving to zero harm with nursing morbidity and mortality conferences
Drug errors harm 1.5 million people each year, report finds
In a new report, the Institute of Medicine concludes that at least 25% of harmful adverse drug events are preventable, and recommends specific preventive actions for nurses and other healthcare workers.
Dumped: When nursing homes abandon patients to the hospital
During an emergency: Be safe!
Thousands of accidental chemical spills and leaks take place in this country each year. Providing nurses with adequate first-receiver training can help ensure that we can care for contaminated patients without endangering ourselves.
Editorial
To achieve higher quality of care and help transform our healthcare system, we need to don our customized tool belts, get to work, and be willing to abandon the outdated methods of the past.
Effective advocacy
Effective transitions
Election Day 2006: It’s nurses’ time to be heard!
Make your voice heard on election day.
Emergent nurse cross-training in response to COVID-19
Emerging infectious threats: Respiratory protection for personal safety
Many experts think a flu pandemic (perhaps the swine flu) is inevitable, underscoring the need for all healthcare workers
to learn how to use respirators properly.
Emerging trends in nursing
Empowering nurse health
Empowering nurses with infection control resources
Enculturating the value of process improvement
End workplace violence
Ending the crisis
Ending the cycle
Nurses nationwide work to eliminate partner violence.
Energize your career with the forces of magnetism
Is a Magnet facility for you? Explore the benefits.