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Support nurses with job embeddedness
Use this model to promote nurse retention.
Takeaways:
The recent pandemic, and potential consequential post-traumatic stress disorder, might affect nurse retention significantly.
Strategically planned job...
The pandemic: Is there an end in sight?
Vaccination is key for a return to normal.
We don’t know when the COVID-19 pandemic will end, but it’s unlikely to occur in the immediate...
Effective advocacy
Katie Boston-Leary wants nurses to shape the future.
Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, is director of nursing programs at the American Nurses Association...
Reimagining flu vaccine clinics
A primary care network innovates during a global pandemic.
Takeaways:
Within a large regional network of primary care offices, an interdisciplinary team of nurses and...
Updated nursing scope and standards
Foundational document reflects changes in healthcare.
As the professional nursing association that represents all RNs in the United States, the American Nurses Association (ANA) has...
End workplace violence
Charting a path to zero tolerance
April 16, 2021, marked a key milestone in the journey to end workplace violence in healthcare, when the Workplace...
Protecting privacy while supporting nurses
To: Ethics Advisory Board
From: Concerned emergency department clinical manager
Subject: Patient/family privacy and nurses’ well-being
A patient was brought to our emergency department (ED) from...
Reimagining flu vaccine clinics
A primary care network innovates during a global pandemic.
Takeaways:
Within a large regional network of primary care offices, an interdisciplinary team of nurses and...
Adverse event reporting and root cause analysis
Increasing nurses’ understanding can reduce errors.
Takeaways
Maintaining patient safety is pivotal to nursing practice; the complexities of healthcare call for more in-depth attention to...
Change for the better
ANA liaison to the ACIP has a lifelong commitment to public health.
Chad Rittle, DNP, MPH, RN, FAAOHN, associate professor of nursing at Chatham University...
Pandemics and ‘One Health’
The intertwining of nature, wildlife, and humans increases the risk of disease spread.
With the world’s attention gripped by vaccinating the population against COVID-19, infectious...
The pandemic and early career nurses
Find support, shape the profession via input, action.
During the peaks and valleys of the now 15-month COVID-19 pandemic, nurses remain the bedrock of competent...
C.A.R.E. to prevent medical device related pressure injuries
A facility’s innovative program effectively reduced patient injury.
Takeaways:
Learn how a nurse-led interprofessional innovation was designed at an organization that’s received Magnet® designation.
Gain...
