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Frontline nurses and transformational leadership
A key to quality and safety
In 2011, the Institute of Medicine called for nurses in all settings and levels of care to be prepared...
From dream to device: a nurse inventor’s story
As a teenager, Man-Yee (“Karen”) Tsang, BS, RN, CPN, wrote a paper for school that described her desire to be an inventor one day....
Nurse suicide attempt survivors
Easing back safely to the work environment
Frequently, suicide ideation is a manifestation of mental illness, such as depression or anxiety disorder. However, even without...
Promoting staff interaction to encourage inclusion
Years ago, when I was working at a community hospital, we decided to host a job fair because we were struggling with high vacancy...
By your patients you’ll be taught
When I was 20, I got my first job as a public health nurse for the Philippine National Cross.
For a monthly salary of $41...
BEAM: The behavioral evaluation and addiction management team
Shining a light to reduce hospital workplace violence.
Takeaways:
Healthcare workers are more likely to be victims of serious violence than those working in the...
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...
Compassion fatigue risk among skilled nursing facility nurses
Self-care combined with organizational support can aid prevention and resilience.
Takeaways:
Skilled nursing facility (SNF) nurses caring for older adults experience a variety of resident...
Nurse Keith’s Corner: Overcoming 21st Century Angst
When the 21st century dawned several decades ago, the next one hundred years — and the new millennium — were seen as a new beginning, a...
How innovation and design thinking can improve care
Empathy and collaboration create opportunities to help vulnerable populations.
Takeaways:
Design thinking is a problem-solving tool driven by the needs of the targeted population.
The...
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...
New nursing school graduates: Let the real learning begin
Education continues on the job.
Welcome to the 2021 class of nursing school graduates joining our most remarkable profession. You enter the workforce at an...
What do nurses want?
Twenty-two percent: That’s how many frontline RNs in the United States said, in a response to a recent McKinsey survey, that they may leave...