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How shall we mourn our dead?
Take your time and follow the path that’s right for you.
Since May 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have required nursing homes...
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...
A Pioneering Spirit: What new graduates need from nurse leaders
Many nursing students are graduating and will be transitioning into practice. The good news is that jobs for new graduates are more plentiful today,...
Self-management = a balanced life
Follow this formula for success.
Takeaways:
• Self-management coupled with a wellness approach can mitigate the stress associated with nursing and improve individual nurse health.
• Procrastination...
Face your fears and forge ahead
Cathleen Wheatley steps up to a challenge.
Cathleen Wheatley, DNP, RN, CENP, is president of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, North Carolina,...
You make a difference
Honoring nurses and our profession in May
This Nurses Month, we honor RNs for their skillful, creative, and compassionate care during the most significant public...
Benefits of feedback for nurse leaders
Viewing feedback as a gift enhances career growth.
Takeaways:
Without feedback, beginning nurse leaders’ careers can be derailed
Constructive feedback can lead to significant performance...
Smart pumps, smart management, safe patients
When organizations and clinicians team up, patients are protected.
Takeaways:
Medication administration errors continue to occur due to mistakes in smart electronic infusion pump setup,...
Heavy Reading: Inside Nursing
Diversity, equity, and inclusion can’t be authentically incorporated into curricula when faculty assign textbooks that harm those whose health they seek to protect.
For instance,...
A Pioneering Spirit: The SCARF Model
Healthcare professionals struggle to get their messages about mask-wearing and social distancing out to a skeptical public and even their own family members. Interestingly,...
The Relentless School Nurse: Feeling simultaneously empowered and disempowered
When I power up the Zoom room for my bi-weekly school nurse support groups, I am never sure who will join me and what...
Take time to appreciate the importance of what you do
Lessons learned from 1918 d
In 1918, the “Spanish flu” killed most people who were infected. Thanks to the efforts of thousands of researchers across...
A Nurse’s Guide to Social Media
Social media can be a tricky business, especially for a profession struggling with how and when to use our voices and one that is...
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...
Visitor restrictions during COVID-19: ethical considerations
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals across the nation established strict visitor restrictions for all inpatient units, which particularly impacted the pediatric...
A musical approach to coping with psychosocial stress
A powerful tool for nurse well-being
Editor’s note: This is an early release of a web exclusive article for the May 2021 issue of American...
COVID-19 vaccine handling: Maximizing doses and public confidence
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is proud of the leading role nurses play at all levels of the coronavirus pandemic that has shaken the...
Raising awareness about health disparities: A call to action
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised consciousness about health disparities, institutional racism, and diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in the nation. Nurses know these conditions...
Nurses in a children’s classroom: Showcasing nursing as a career choice
We would like to share our experiences as yearly participants in our local Hillsborough County Great American Teach-In (GATI). GATI, an annual November event...
A Pioneering Spirit: Leaders as Framers in Turbulent Times
Will it always be like this? A critical care nurse leader was recently asked this question by one of her novice nurses in the...
The Stories That Never Get Told – Compassion
Compassion and caring at the heart of nursing.
It was too late. I could never speak to him again.
By the time I was notified that...
Violence should not be part of the job
Universal violence precautions in acute care
Takeaways:
Workplace violence can surprise and overwhelm nurses, leaving them unable to safely provide patient care.
A multi-component intervention...
Nurse heroes of the Pandemic
Nurses share a common theme: Hope.
Be prepared, be strong, and don’t panic
Crystal Davis Campbell, BSN, RN
Staff nurse, medical ICU, Vidant Medical Center
Greenville, North Carolina
Crystal...
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...
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Quiz: Migraines and Hormones
Women are 2 to 3 times more likely than men to have migraines. Decades ago, these were attributed to women’s inability to cope with...