Practice Matters
“Bundle” up to prevent pressure ulcers
Find out how to start a pressure ulcer prevention program on your unit or in your facility.
#EndNurseAbuse—Help is on the way
#WeAreFirstline
125 years of progress
20 million strong
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (01.04.10)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (01.08.10)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (02.02.2010)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (11.09.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (11.20.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (12.04.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu – Situation Update (12.11.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu: Situation Update (10.14.09)
2009 H1N1 Flu: Situation Update (10.23.2009)
2009: H1N1 Flu: Situation Update (10.16.09)
2018 nursing trends and salary survey results
2019 ANA Innovation Award winners update
2020 ANA Innovation Award winners update
4 million reasons
5 reasons why pandemics will be more frequent
A contemporary look at gerontological nursing
A conversation about the ethics of staffing
A conversation with Rep. Lois Capps
A kinder, gentler workplace
A kinder, gentler workplace
A kinder, gentler workplace, part 2: Impatience
A kinder, gentler workplace, part 3: The generation gap
A look back—and ahead
A medication dosage simulation strategy to improve patient safety
A model for ethical decision-making in management
A nurse’s guide to food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens
A quantum life
Quantum theory explains how you create your life through what you choose to think, then intend and, ultimately, do.
A roll-up-your-sleeves kind of hope
To reinvent health care, we need down-to-earth help and a roll-up-your sleeves kind of hope.
A whack on the side of the head
The last iteration of repealing and replacing Obamacare has gone down in failure because of Republicans appalled by cost and Democrats obsessed with numbers of Americans without access. I think repeal and replace keeps coming up because the narrative never changes. What Congress needs is a new way of thinking—a whack on the side of the head.
Addressing the opioid epidemic
Advance care planning across the care continuum
Advancing adoption of the electronic health record
Experts at the federal level are working to actualize the promise of health information technology.
Adventures in virtual meetings
Tired of unproductive staff meetings held at inconvenient times? Had it up to here with being interrupted when trying to express your opinion? Maybe it’s time to explore alternatives to the traditional in-person meeting. One hospital unit did just that, and their online meeting forum helped them create new protocols in record time.
Advocacy agenda
Advocacy matters
Advocacy: A modest proposal
Nurses are with patients during some of the most important moments in their lives.
Advocating for access to safe, quality care
Affirmation of focused practice competencies
In August 2017, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Board of Directors approved the inclusion of an additional component to ANA’s newly revised recognition of a nursing specialty, approval of a specialty’s scope of practice statement, and acknowledgment of standards of a specialty practice program. The new component, affirmation of focused practice competencies, provides a formal review process for identifying the specific knowledge, skills, abilities,accountability, and judgment deemed important for professional practice success, interprofessional collaborative practice and team success, and achievement of defined outcomes.
Afraid at work
Agendas for change
Amazing you!
An activity menu for older adults
An inside look at Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation’s inaugural year
An invitation to error
What happens when you’re short staffed and there isn’t anyone to help?
An ounce of prevention
ANA and HIMSS join forces to advance nurse-led innovation
ANA supports safe patient handling measures in Congress
“The Nurse and Health Care Worker Protection Act of 2009” (H.R. 2381) gets ANA approval.
ANA’s 125th anniversary
ANA’s Health Risk Appraisal: Three years later
Applying a systematic approach to new-product assessment
Take the spontaneity out of new-product purchases to control costs and keep patients safe.
Are you confident about confidence intervals?
The confidence interval yields information on how confident
researchers are about the success of a studied intervention.
Aromatherapy: Essential oils and nursing
Artificial intelligence in nursing
Asking difficult questions
Assessing the ethical climate: An environmental scan
Attitude adds to a toxic work environment
Attitude: The power of human energy
Our thoughts, feelings, and disposition influence other people, not just because people see and read our facial expressions or body language, but because thoughts themselves are energy.
Autonomy and the patient’s right to choose falls prevention
Avoiding flu complacency
Banner Simulation Medical Center: Using simulation to set up new nurses for success
Battling burnout and languishing
Before blowing the whistle, learn to protect yourself
Don’t let fear of reprisal stop you from reporting serious misconduct.
Behind the curtain: Creating an in situ simulation experience
Go "behind the curtain" to learn how simulation is being used to prepare hospital-based nurses for urgent situations.
Beware of predatory journals
Beyond a box of chocolates
Beyond a box of chocolates
Beyond customer service
Many nurses don’t like to hear their patients called “customers” or be told to provide “customer service.” This expert explains how to lose the lingo and adapt the principles of customer service to patient care.
Blood transfusions: How technology can improve patient safety
Testing a prototype identification system leads to 100% acuracy.
Brain science gives holistic care a new aura of legitimacy
Breaking down diversability barriers to improve patient well-being
Breathe new life into unit staff meetings
Revive humdrum unit meetings by setting compelling themes and having staff members present agenda items.
Brighter days ahead
Brought to you by NDNQI: Data that do good
Thanks to the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, hospitals and nurses are capturing and converting into data what nurses actually do and how their actions affect patient care.
Building moral resilience and healthy environments
Building programs to reduce sharps injuries from insulin injection
C.A.R.E. to prevent medical device related pressure injuries
Calculating and interpreting the odds ratio
Researchers use the odds ratio to analyze which of two groups of individuals
is more likely to have an adverse outcome. Find out how to calculate the
odds ratio and interpret its significance
Can teach-back reduce hospital readmissions?
A study shows this method helps educators focus on topics the patient doesn’t fully grasp.
Can you fire a patient?
Case study: Coerced consent
“Coercion is commonly said to invalidate consent, and that is always true if the source of the coercion is the physician.
Case Study: How much is enough?
Case Study: When is what you know considered confidential?
Catching up to stay ahead
Celebrating nurse innovators
Central venous catheter dressings put to the test
A nursing team’s research findings lead to hospital-wide savings.
Changing injury trends related to diabetes and insulin injection
This article is the first in a two-part series brought to you in partnership with the International Safety Center.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 30 million people live with diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes, and the American Diabetes Association estimates that 1.5 million Americans are newly diagnosed with diabetes every year.
Chaplains as connectors
Charge Nurse University: Preparing future nurse leaders
A leadership development program helps staff nurses with high leadership potential become the hospital’s next nurse leaders.
Cherish the differences
Claiming our rights
Climate courage
Coaching Communication: Tips for nurse managers
One key element of performance management is coaching staff to improve behavior. In this section on coaching communication, I will share ideas for how you as a manager can coach employees via your day-to-day conversations.
Collaboration brings an innovative approach to nursing education
Working with local hospitals, a Texas consortium of nursing schools developed learning modules to improve new nurse graduates’ preparation for practice.
Collaboration: Get better care, go home sooner, live longer
Combating medication verification workarounds in an electronic world
Combatting stress
Communicating with intubated patients: A new approach
Learn how one hospital improved communication between nurses and intubated patients through the use of an algorithm,
new communication devices, and a focused communications course for nurses.
Communication for coordination
Compassion holds everything together
Despite our physical separation from each other, we’re still all connected and react to what happens to each other. Compassion is the unifying force that holds it all together.
Compassion: A nurse’s primary virtue
Compassionate Connections
Conscience, legalism, and the clash of rights
COVID-19 and palliative care
COVID-19 exposed our deficiencies
COVID-19 vaccines: What you need to know
Creating a smooth move for patients and staff
When Missouri Baptist Medical Center had to relocate nearly 200 patients in a single day, staff and leaders knew collaboration and planning would be key. Here’s how they did it.
Creating ethical environments in nursing
To uphold workplace ethics, leaders must send the message that unethical behavior is never acceptable, no matter who’s demonstarting it.
Creating moral space for nurses
Creating more than just a journal club
How to create an innovative journal club – and keep it going.
Current and future newborn screening
Newborn screening illustrates what can happen when genetic testing converges with ethics and electronic health records
Data science for nurses
Dedicated education units: Advancing nurse preparation
Defeating horizontal violence in the emergency department
The authors share how they defused horizontal violence in their ED.
Defending yourself through documentation
Complete, objective, and accurate documentation of the care you provide can help you avert or defend against lawsuits.
Déjà vu all over again
Some people simply can’t learn from the past—even the fairly recent and painful past.
Delegating without doubts
With this decision tree as your guide, you’ll delegate tasks to assistive personnel with confidence.
Demystifying literature reviews
Every nurse should understand evidence-based practice and the terms used in literature reviews.
Developing a mentor program to improve support and retention
Developing and expanding APRN and PA teams
Differentiating research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement
All nurses should know and understand the differences among these three concepts.
Difficult and frustrating? Caring for those with chronic and complex conditions
Digital dashboards and staffing
Many healthcare organizations use digital “dashboards” to provide employees with real-time data collected from various sources, helping to guide decisions and improve the quality of care. Increasingly, dashboards also are being used to support effective staffing decisions.
Do I still belong?
Do Magnet facilitites maintain their “magnetism”?
Nursing researchers investigated 41 facilities to determine whether they maintained thier “Magnetism” after earning Magnet designation.
Do you hear what I hear? Combating alarm fatigue
Do you know the schedule for vaccinating children?
Learn how to promote pediatric immunizations in your practice. Part of ANA’s Bringing Immunity to Every Community campaign. this handout stresses the importance of vaccinating children and their caregivers, parents, and siblings.
Do you know the vaccination requirements for adolescents and adults?
This handout, part of ANA's Bringing Immunity to Every Community campaign,
provides the tools you need to ensure that adolescents and adults
get appropriate vaccinations.
Do you know which vaccines are recommended for special populations?
Pregnant and postpartum women, immunocompromised
children, and persons at high risk for flu-related complications have special immunization needs. Part of ANA’s Bringing
Immunity to Every Community campaign, this handout
explains how to help ensure that these vulnerable populations are protected.
Do you want to be a preceptor?
Doctor shopping and prescription substance use disorders: A nursing response
Documentation: You’ve got a lot to lose
Does a right to refuse treatment include a right to demand it?
Don’t tolerate disruptive physician behavior
No matter if you like – or fear – a doctor who behaves badly, you must report the incident for the sake of the staff, the patients, the institution.
Driving staffing solutions
Drug errors harm 1.5 million people each year, report finds
In a new report, the Institute of Medicine concludes that at least 25% of harmful adverse drug events are preventable, and recommends specific preventive actions for nurses and other healthcare workers.
Dumped: When nursing homes abandon patients to the hospital
Emergent nurse cross-training in response to COVID-19
Empowering nurses with infection control resources
End workplace violence
Ending stigma
Engaging and advocating
Enhancing nursing curriculum with an injection of technology
Errors, care, and the bottom line
Ethics and the quality of care
Leah Curtin discusses the issue of quality care from an ethical perspective.
Ethics case study: ‘Just watch them die…’
Ethics case study: Poor staffing results in brain-damaged patient
Author Leah Curtin discusses the ethical issue of short staffing.
Ethics for nurses in everyday practice
Ethics for nurses in everyday practice: How stupid can you get?
Ethics for nurses in everyday practice: Insubordination in the ICU?
What happens when there is no room in the ICU for an ED patient?
Ethics in a pandemic
Ethics is not punitive
Leah Curtin writes about finding your passion.
Evidence-based practice: The forum approach
At one hospital, nurses use a monthly evidence-based practice (EBP) forum to help integrate EBP into the workplace culture.
Examining racism in nursing
Exposed to patient’s body fluids? Now what?
Learn how to protect yourself by taking the right steps if you are exposed to a patient’s body fluids.
Family history as a genetic assessment tool: Where are the resources?
Learn the value of a genetic history and resources for how to conduct one.
Fighting emerging threats
Three years ago, the American Nurses Association (ANA) and nurses nationwide found themselves on the frontlines of a crisis when the Ebola virus made its way to the United States, killing one patient and infecting two RNs who provided care to him. The crisis wasn’t in the number of cases in this country—four diagnosed and 11 treated—but in the need to ensure that healthcare workers could keep themselves and the public safe when faced with a potentially fatal infectious organism.
Finance for nurse managers: Return on investment
Healthcare leaders need to spend their money wisely. Determining the costs and benefits of proposed workplace solutions can be easier with the authors’ five-step approach.
First and last line of defense
For once, ethics and the ‘bottom line’ agree
Author Leah Curtin discusses the dangers of bottom-line thinking.
Forgive us our trespasses
When Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee, speaks of Nelson Mandela, he insists Mandela has always been a free man because he was free from any need or desire for revenge.
Fostering nurse-physician collaboration through shared experience
Fostering professional identity in nursing
Foundation for the future
From apathy to political activism
From idea to impact
From our readers: A perspective on moral uncertainty and politics
From our readers: ABC’s of evidence-based practice
A simple mnemonic can serve as a guide for the process of evidence-based practice.
From our readers: Overtime is only fun in baseball: A somber look at mandatory overtime and nursing care
The author reviews issues surrounding mandatory overtime.
From our readers: The making of a newsletter
From our readers: Using theater improvisational games to enhance interpersonal skills in nurses
Learn how to "play the game" to help nurses and students build skills.
From our readers…A case study of implementing an injury prevention program
The authors explain how they successfully implemented an injury prevention program.
From our readers…Are you prepared for a mass casualty event?
Take a self-assessment to determine if you are ready and take action to increase your preparedness.
From our readers…Creating a patient/family advisory board
From our readers…Delegation for nursing managers: Increasing the odds of success
Delegation is one of the most important—and most neglected—management skills. Learn how be a better delegator.
From our readers…Hourly rounding benefits patients and staff
From our readers…Negative effects of shackling pregnant incarcerated women
The author advocates for more respectful treatment of pregnant women who are incarcerated.
From our readers…Practical approaches to patient advocacy barriers
Gandhi and the practice of nursing
Generational learning preferences
Genetic counseling, abortion, sex-selection, and autonomy
Author Leah Curtin discusses the implications of genetic testing for sex determination
Genetic counseling, abortion, sex-selection, and autonomy—a response to readers’ comments
Author Leah Curtin responds to readers’ comments on one of her recent articles.
Genetic research sheds light on common complex diseases
Using new tools, researchers are exploring complex disorders in which genes and the environment strongly interact.
Getting to the root of the root-cause analysis problem
Give the gift of life
Global issues are our issues
Going from the gut
The current emphasis on best practices, guidelines, and checklists make cause healthcare professionals to turn off their judgment and go by the book – even when it’s the wrong thing to do.
Good intentions eclipsed
Leah Curtin discusses how negative effects of work on work/life balance and mandatory overtime affect patient care.
Good-bye and God bless…
Gorillas, restraints, and moral blind spots
Leah Curtin discusses a restraint situation.
Grasping the all-important concept of risk
To fulfill your responsibility toward evidence-based practice, you need to understand statistical techniques. In the first article in our new “Spotlight on Statistics” series, the authors demystify the concept of risk and describe how it helps you apply evidence to your practice.
Grooming our future leaders
Harassment: It’s about abuse of power
Hazardous drugs, a safety blind spot
Hazardous exposures and military veterans
Healing our hazardous environment
Environmental pollution threatens our homes, workplaces, and communities. So what can you do? This article will tell you.
Healing the wounds: Quantum nursing V
Quantum nursing demands that nurses honor each person’s
humanity, promote independence and autonomy, and offer the
opportunity for individuals to redefine for themselves who they are and how they choose to live.
Health promotion and disease prevention in rural communities
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ Have you accepted the challenge?
Hospice and palliative care
What nurses don’t know about hospice and palliative care can hurt the patient and family.
Hospital at home
How do we get into morally questionable situations?
Leah Curtin discusses the dangers of bottom-line thinking.
How do we manage in uncertain times?
How dolls can help patients with dementia
Dolls can work wonders on geriatric dementia patients.
How shall we mourn our dead?
How the candidates want to change health care
Web exclusive! See what Senators McCain and Obama say they’ll do to fix our broken healthcare system.
How to appraise quantitative research articles
Increase your ability to critically appraise, synthesize, and communicate research findings.
How to comment on government regulations
You can get directly involved in developing public health policy by submitting your comments on proposed government regulations to federal departments and agencies.
How to conduct an evidence-based practice investigation
How to deliver bad news
Healthcare providers often must give bad news to patients and families. Doing this in a direct, concise, compassionate way is a skill that equired practice.
How to improve your listening skills
Find out how the “GRRRR for
great listening” model can improve your communication with colleagues to help you deliver high-quality care.
How to increase developmental opportunities for frontline nurse leaders
How to meet the challenge of disruptive patients
Disruptive patients can be challenging for even the most experienced nurse. Learn how identify those at high risk for disruptive behavior and strategies for defusing a person who is being disruptive.
How to motivate your staff
Use these tips to help your team succeed.
How to prevent falls among older adults in outpatient settings
The author provides tips for preventing falls.
Huddle up for patient safety
Human factors engineering can improve patient safety
Knowing how nurses interact with the environment can help safeguard patients.
Human rights
ICU Diary: The Gift of Care™
Immunization nurse champions
Implementation science: A framework for integrating evidence-based practice
Implementing bedside shift report
Implementing bedside shift report improved communication with patients and families.
Improving HCAHPS scores the old fashioned way
Hospitals seeking to raise their HCAHPS score should focus on old-fashioned values—courtesy, kindness,respect, discipline, and commitment.
Improving palliative care and communication in the ICU
Looking for more information on evidence-based practices? Read this first article in a series from the National Institute of Nursing Research.
Improving patient education with Health Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Learn how this tool helped an ICU analyze and correct flaws in its patient-education process
Improving patient safety with a modified early warning scoring system
Improving posthospital medication management for chronically ill older adults
In praise of nursing residency programs
The author explains how a residency can take the nurse beyond
doing nursing to being a nurse in the fullest sense.
In pursuit of a good night’s rest
In with care boards, out with care plans
Incivility and bullying
Increasing electronic health literacy: A three-pronged approach
Infection control for lifts and slings
Your guide to keeping lifts and slings free from infection.
Infection prevention and control is for every nurse
Influenza prevention
Influenza update 2019-2020
Informed consent for foreign-educated health professionals
Initiative on the Future of Nursing
Innovating during a pandemic
Innovation central
Innovation in action
Innovation on the move
Inspire, innovate, and influence
Interpreting statistical significance in nursing research
Improper interpretation of statistical analysis can lead to abuse or misuse of results. We draw valid interpretations when data meet fundamental assumptions and when we evaluate the probability of errors.
Introducing the quantum patient
The quantum patient is an indivisible human being whose health
problems might not be healed through traditional specialization.
Investing in nursing retention is a smart move in today’s economy
Residency programs help new graduates make the transition from school to practice.
Investing in ourselves
Is nursing a stigmatizing label that needs to go?
Read the perspective of a “nonnurse”.
Is there a nurse in the House? Or the Senate?
Is there a right to medical care?
Is this quality improvement or research?
Is your patient on a clinical trial?
It’s time for data-driven, patient-centered workforce management
It’s who we are.
Just culture promotes a partnership for patient safety
The authors explain how workplaces can move toward just culture,
which recognizes that errors may be systemic rather than personal.
Kangaroo care: Making the leap to an evidence-based practice
The authors explain how they used an evidence-based practice model to establish a new nursing practice – kangaroo care for healthy newborns.
Keeping genetic information confidential
What you should know about the new federal law.
Keeping watch: Enhancing fall prevention through targeted video surveillance
Key competencies for nursing
To innovate is to put new ideas into practice or existing ideas into practice in new ways. Innovation isn’t new, but its prominence and need in health care continues to increase. Addressing the complexities of healthcare delivery requires creative solutions and approaches that challenge the status quo. Building a culture of innovation necessitates developing skills that allow for ongoing innovation. For this reason, the American Nurses Association (ANA) is focused on nurse-led innovation for healthcare improvement as a part of its strategic goals.
Key components for optimal staffing
Key concepts in patient-centered care
Respect, communication, and comfort are essential to ensuring that care focuses on the patient first.
Killing for profit
Knowing you can make it
Leadership: A conversation with Joanne Disch, AARP Board Chair
Leadership: Making things better
According to the Huffington Post, “A recent survey by the World Economic Forum found that 86 percent of respondents believe we are suffering a global leadership crisis…. The world is in crisis mode and there are few effective leaders to be seen.” One of the gifts of aging is that one has a great deal of hindsight, which improves insight, and gives one just a tad of foresight. All of which leads me to ruminate on leadership, especially in health care.
Leadership: What the books don’t tell you
They’ve been there, done that-and told Dr. Curtin all about it. She shares advice collected from nursing leaders across the country.
Let’s take the lead in educating the public about nursing
Lies and the lying liars who tell them
Listening with compassion
Long-term cancer survivorship nurse practitioner care model promotes patient quality of life
Looking for signs of hope
Opportunities for nurses keep increasing.
Making and breaking a promise
Making prone positioning a priority
Making sense of statistical power
If you want to interpret nursing research outcomes, you need to understand statistical power.
Managing our fears to improve patient safety
Leaders must develop a structured process for team learning and communication.
Many shades of grey
Leah Curtin discusses the effects of ambiguity.
Meaningful Recognition: Make it happen!
We all want respect. Here’s how to go about getting it.
Medical device development
Medical futility: A nurse’s viewpoint
Caring for a medically futile patient can be a wrenching emotional experience. Learn how to cope with the complex medical, ethical, and legal issues and help patients and families make difficult decisions.
Medicare for all? Why not?
If President Trump really wants a healthcare plan that gives him a big win by covering all Americans, reducing insurance costs, and cutting the cost of healthcare, it could be done. And it would be far better than President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mr. Trump could push Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) bill that makes Medicare available to everyone. And wouldn’t it be a hoot? A Republican president, House, and Senate would finally make universal access a reality. And why not? A single-payer system offers cost-cutting strategies that have succeeded all over the globe.
Medication storage and disposal safety
Medication titration
Mentoring for success: Neurosurgery new hire RN mentorship program
Mindful observation
Minimize medication errors in urgent care clinics
Minimize words, maximize impact with simple graphics
Capture your audience’s attention quickly by using visual images to show concepts and explain data in articles and presentations.
Modifying the Magnet model: The shape of things to come
Learn about the next-generation model for the Magnet Recognition Program.
Moral space
Motivational interviewing: A communication best practice
Moving forward with nurse-led care coordination
Moving toward a restraint-free environment
Must nurses care for migrants?
National Magnet Nurse of the Year® 2013 Award Winners
Learn more about these outstanding award winners.
NICE Network: Nurses leading change in infection prevention
No time like the present to get healthy
Nurse advocacy and the power of the public’s trust
Nurse fatigue: A shared responsibility
Nurse fatigue: The silent epidemic
Nurse innovators shine
Nurse suicide attempt survivors
Nurses and assisted suicide
Nurses and vaccine hesitancy
Nurses are nurses—unless they’re not
Nurses during COVID-19’s next wave
Nurses living mindfully—Over the holidays and always
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim is to improve population health, increase patient satisfaction, and reduce per-capita spending. The Quadruple Aim adds the goal of improving healthcare providers’ work life. This holiday season, “gift” yourself with self-care techniques to ensure the best care for patients and families and to promote effective interprofessional work environments.
Nurses rising
Nurses shaping the future of healthcare
Nurses’ health in the wake of COVID-19
Nurses’ role in managing pain
Nursing informatics career opportunities
Healthcare decisions depend on data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Nursing informatics leverages these concepts to support the design, development, testing, implementation, adoption, and optimization of digital health tools, which means informatics nurses have a role in many areas of healthcare.
Nursing needs a mental health makeover
Nursing research takes aim at chronic pain
The National Institute of Nursing Research is studying ways to promote better outcomes for patients with chronic pain.
Nursing—Built on a cornerstone of leadership
Nursing’s role in healthcare reform
Nursing’s memes: Ideas that mold the profession
We need to pay attention to the memes that are catching and spreading within our profession.
Obesity in nurses
Of artichokes and angry patients
How is an artichoke like an angry patient? What can you do to diffuse anger.
On the CUSP: How to implement a comprehensive unit-based safety program
This five-step program empowers staff to change unit culture and improve patient safety.
On the power of one
The actions of a single person can be incalculable. That’s why it’s crucial that each of us instill “habits of virtue” in children.
One country, one people, one government
Opioids: Follow the evidence
To ensure safety and effective care, nurses must maintain their knowledge and understanding of opioid pharmacologic properties and best practices when caring for patients with acute and chronic non-cancer pain.
Our future through my review mirror
Outreach score identifies care coordination needs
Pandemics and ‘One Health’
Partner with interpreters to prepare patients for discharge
Interpreters are valuable partners when you need to teach a patient who speaks a language you don’t speak. Here’s how to achieve an effective collaboration.
Passion with purpose
Pathological individualism
Patient acuity tool on a medical-surgical unit
Patient and family tele-education
Patient Nutrition
Patients need more sleep
Perspective: Mental illness and the right to bear arms
Physician and nurse engagement: From concept to collaboration
Pick up some research to go!
Find out how to grab the latest research on the run, decide of the findings are ready to use in practice, and plan practice changes accordingly.
Pilot studies: Helmsman on the ship of research design
Pilot studies lay the groundwork for major research studies.
Pooling the power of goodness to create change
Commitment and compassion can do more to transform health care
than any competitive business model can.
Preoperative education for patients undergoing total laryngectomy
Preventing blood and body fluid splashes and splatters
Preventing injuries from disposable syringes
Preventing needlestick and sharps injuries
Preventing preceptor burnout
Preventing workplace violence
Problem of psychiatric patient ED boarding
Problems with Privacy
Leah Curtin discusses how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been misinterpreted to the detriment of patients.