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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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
Nursing Story Slams: Creating a Space for Nurses To Tell Their Stories
Storytelling is essential to increasing health literacy, empathy, curiosity, and engagement — and who has better stories than nurses? That is why three years ago, we...
Uplifting nurses
Associations respond to member needs in a pandemic.
In 2020, what kept me up at night was nurses’ well-being and how they’ve been dealing with...
An ounce of prevention
Engage in practical training through Project Firstline.
A lifetime of working with patients with serious burn injuries truly ingrained in me the importance of infection...
Change maker
Dori Healey is passionate about patient safety, public service, and volunteering.
President-elect for American Nurses Association (ANA)-Idaho, Dori Healey, MSN-RN, MBA-HA, CPPS, takes every opportunity...
Springing into action: How one procedural area kept working during COVID-19
As COVID-19 hit Georgia in early March 2020, Emory University System made the difficult decision to stop all surgeries and procedures unless they were...