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The first time I heard “It’s not in my job description” invoked was during an interaction with a colleague in my very early days...
Accused of workplace bullying: What happens next?
If an informal resolution can’t be achieved, follow your organization’s investigation protocol.
Takeaways:
Workplace bullying is abusive conduct that is threatening, humiliating, or intimidating and interferes...
ANA advocates for nurses’ health and safety
Collaborating in the new year to address pandemic challenges together
As nurses contend with the pandemic and its multi-layered effects into 2021, the American Nurses...
Beyond the Pandemic: Be your own nurse
Relieve stress with a self-care plan.
Editor’s note: To read other articles in the Beyond the Pandemic series, click here.
Takeaways:
Lack of resources and...
Blue light and sleep: What nurses need to know
Strategic interventions can improve alertness and sleep.
Takeaways
Sleep is a key component of a healthy lifestyle.
Bright or blue light exposure before bedtime can...
Build resilient teams to tackle nursing burnout
Use purpose, priorities, perspective, and personal responsibility to create culture-changing teams.
Takeaways:
Burnout has been identified as a public health crisis, negatively affecting individuals, organizations,...
Building personal resilience
Develop skills to overcome daily challenges and prepare for the future.
Takeaways
Burnout has been identified as a public health crisis, negatively affecting individuals, organizations,...
Eliminating your nursing school debt
Without the burden of student loans, you can fully invest time and energy into your career.
Takeaways:
Calculating your debt-to-income ratio is the first step...
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™
Year Four Highlights: 2020-2021
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation (HNHN), just like all of you, has had quite a year. A banner year, we might add!...
How to avoid gender bias in nursing education
A simple game can teach valuable lessons.
Takeaways:
Many men who enter nursing face bias based on preconceived notions about who can be a nurse.
...
How to be an online nurse influencer
Tips for building followers and expanding your healthcare impact
Takeaways:
Nurses can be influencers well beyond their immediate circle of patients, clients, and colleagues.
Social...
Making New Year’s resolutions? Try these tips from Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™
Many people are eager to turn the page and begin the new year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And, given the added stress on...
Management of aggressive patient situations
Program development, implementation, and evaluation.
Takeaways
Workplace violence is a growing threat in healthcare worldwide and rates of verbal and physical assault correlate with patient...
National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience
A solution-focused strategy is designed to curtail the burnout epidemic.
Takeaways:
Burnout affects more than half of nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers.
To reduce...
Navigating authority gradients
Four approaches can help promote effective communication and positive outcomes.
Takeaways:
Authority gradients occur when individuals perceive differences in status that make them feel uncomfortable.
...
Navigating the loss and grief of a nurse suicide
With employer support, nurses can help each other after a colleague’s death.
Takeaways:
The bonds created among nurses make the loss of a colleague difficult...
Night nurses and exercise
How regular activity can increase sleep quality and quantity.
Takeaways:
Working at night disrupts nurses’ circadian rhythms and impacts their physical and mental health.
Nurses...
Nurse fatigue: Short on sleep, short on safety
Shift work, organizational barriers, and nurse preferences continue to challenge nurse wellness.
Takeaways:
Shift work—including long shifts, rotating shifts, double shifts, evening and night shifts—has...
Nurse fatigue: The silent epidemic
Mitigating this serious threat to health and safety
Are you getting the recommended 7 to 9 hours of sleep in a 24-hour period? According to...
Nurse suicide prevention starts with crisis intervention
Make a plan to protect yourself and your colleagues.
Takeaways:
An organization-wide anonymous encrypted screening program to detect nurses at risk for suicide is an...
Nurses rising
Recognizing, elevating, and caring for RNs during a pandemic
As we celebrated the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the first woman...
Obstetric complications: Debrief the grief
Nurses’ physical and mental health require support after a traumatic event.
Editor’s note: This is an early release of a web exclusive article for the...
Preventing identity theft
Don’t let thieves damage your credit or disrupt your life.
Takeaways:
Someone becomes a victim of identity theft every 2 seconds.
In addition to interfering...
Promoting nurse mental health
An urgent call to shift from crisis intervention to long-term prevention
Takeaways:
Nurses are experiencing an unprecedented amount of burnout, depression, and anxiety.
Stressful work...
Reiki: Hand in hand with nursing
Caring for your patients and yourself.
Takeaways:
Reiki is grounded in the transmission of energy through a practitioners’ hands to restore the body’s homeostasis.
Nurses...
Self-care during a single shift
Learn how to incorporate intentional moments of calm into your workday.
Takeaways:
Reducing burnout, a work-based phenomenon, requires self-care practiced in the work setting.
Brief...
Summer HEAT nursing camp: First-year experiences in program development
The authors describe a fun way to help students explore career options.
Takeaways:
· Nursing faculty facilitate an interactive career exploration camp for high school students...
Support nurse health with a structured walking program
Identify barriers and create structure to aid participation.
Takeaways:
Supporting nurses to embrace a healthy lifestyle can have a positive outcome on their well-being.
A...
The extraordinary impact of endings
Why wrapping up well is essential for nurses and beneficial to patients.
Takeaways:
Encounter endings hold extraordinary impact when recalled.
Nurses should equip themselves to...
To nap or not to nap?
How to implement planned naps for hospital nurses.
To nap or not to nap? That’s a question we recommend all hospital nurses and administrators ask...
Trust me. I’m a nurse
Reconciling trust, ethics, and caring.
Takeaways:
For 17 consecutive years, nurses have received the highest rating in the Gallup honesty and ethics survey.
Individual nurse...
Verbal de-escalation for clinical practice safety
The right tools—and support from your organization—will protect you and your patients.
Takeaways:
Nurses and other healthcare workers are harmed by violent patients and family...
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