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To help ensure military veterans get appropriate diagnosis and treatment, ask patients if they’ve ever served in the military.
A look back, a look ahead, a graceful exit
Mindfulness training can help nurses, patients, and loved ones cope with loss, grief, and suffering.
Research shows that hospitals with better nurse staffing and work environments have better outcomes. For you, that means less burnout, more job satisfaction, and less desire to quit your job. But how does your salary fit in? Researchers are trying to understand how salary, work environment, and staffing levels work together to influence nurse-related outcomes.
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transform our healthcare system, we need to don our customized tool belts, get to work, and be willing to abandon the outdated methods of the past.
Facing up to widespread obesity – a reality check on a very real epidemic.
Our editor-in-chief turns a spotlight on faith and community partnerships.
The predatory journal explosion over the past few years has now infiltrated the conference arena. You should know how to recognize a legitimate conference versus a bogus one. Your time, professional growth goals, and monetary resources are all precious commodities that can be easily exploited by unscrupulous organizers of programs that, on the surface, appear legitimate but are actually a sham.
Appreciative inquiry can give your organization a fresh approach to change. In this affirmative process, everyone’s opinions, thoughts, and ideas count.
A Nurses’ Week reminder to recognize nurses every day.
Laser pointers can cause tragedies. Help raise awareness of their
hazards.
Money might buy a brief thrill, but not long-term happiness.
Our time in this life is perhaps the most important gift we enjoy.
Help build a pictorial legacy of nursing.
Rodney, age 47, was admitted to the hospital 2 days ago with rib and femur fractures and facial contusions. He appears well nourished and well groomed.
During American Heart Month, let’s heed our own health promotion advice.
We need to retain our experienced nurses.
Evidence-based nursing practice obliges us to embrace innovation and let go of our sacred cows.
American Heart Month is a time to celebrate the wealth of information that if acted on, can help prevent cardiovascular disease.
Ready or not, we’re on the brink of a senior healthcare crisis.
Nurses play a significant role in helping patients to get the sleep they need.
Providing family-centered care means listening to, engaging, and collaborating with patients and their families.
In the United States and United Kingdom, nurses have the chance to influence their nation’s health information agendas in a strong voice.
The public needs a better understanding of what nurses do, so tell your story.
As hospital admissions shrink, nursing jobs are shiftingto other areas, such as outpatient offices, clinics, postacute facilities, and home care.
Supporting breast cancer research and screening can help us get another step closer to curing this disease.
The #MeToo movement has taken the world by storm, and many say it’s been a long time coming. The New York Times revelation last fall seemed shocking at the time—famed Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct in what appeared to be an alleged pattern of psychological manipulation and strategic harassment spanning decades. Apparently, some victims were paid for their silence. Most reactions I heard about the “Weinstein phenomena” from news reporters and colleagues agreed about one key point: It was wrong.
I watched with great pain the damage, and for many the devastation, created by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. I was reliving August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed my hometown and changed normalcy for my family forever. Twenty-six of my New Orleans family members—stripped of incomes, homes, schools, familiar medical and dental services, normal daily schedules, and social networks—called our Southlake, TX, home their home for many months.
Failing to make our end-of-life wishes known to others can deny us and our loved ones important choices.
The young nurses now entering our profession have a lot to teach us veterans about the value of balancing work and home life.
Nurses engage in nearly as much disruptive behavior as physicians. Let’s put an end to it.
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