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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...
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...
How to Rebuild America’s Trust During COVID-19
Start with Nursing
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent shock waves across the nation. With devastation all around us, people’s lives and livelihoods have been on...
In good company: Perspectives on sitting with patients
A quick Google search for “patient sitter jobs” yields 47 million results. A similar search for “registered nurse jobs” produces 454 million results. These...
A nurse’s notes on New Year’s resolutions
It’s the most promising time of the year. A clean slate ahead and a chance for a fresh start. No doubt nurses are making...
RNs offer creative solutions to healthcare challenges
Creativity reigned at the second annual NursePitch™, a collaboration between the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Inc....
Stress-Reducing Creativity
While art therapy is its own field, you can use the benefits of art to express your creative side and drawing skills to reduce...
Laugh, nurse, laugh!
Victor Borge, the famous Danish comedian, pianist, and conductor once said, “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” Infusing laughter and humor into your...
Look for inspiration in your fellow nurses
In a perfect world, we nurses would be inspired daily by our patient experiences. They would come in such abundance that overtime, computer crashes,...
Writing for good health
If you asked nurses how they reduce job stress, you probably wouldn’t expect them to reply, “By writing.” In fact, a recent research study...
Shaving as a metaphor for nursing
Over the course of history, people have used metaphors to explain, contrive, reflect, and refute human phenomena. Health care (and all its challenges) has...
From our readers: Harp song — A journey to remember and embrace the heart...
“The aim of all spiritual paths, no matter their origin or the rigors of their practice, is to help us live more fully in...
From our readers…Lights, camera, action—and don’t giggle!
The author shares the rewards of creating a video about what telephone triage nurses do.
