Equine-assisted activities and therapies partner professionals with horses to address the patient’s needs.
Long-Term Care / Rehabilitation
A powerful question: “Have you ever served in the military?”
To help ensure military veterans get appropriate diagnosis and treatment, ask patients if they’ve ever served in the military.
ANA works to remove legal barriers to APRN practice
Be a myth-buster: Stop the misconceptions about fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia produces many symptoms but no signs, so some clinicians dismiss it as a wastebasket diagnosis. But the pain is very real, and patients with fibromyalgia need you to understand their pain – and try to relieve it.
Call for abstracts for home care conference
Caring for patients with traumatic brain injuries: Are you up to the challenges?
Many patients face prolonged recovery and permanent disability after a traumatic brain injury. This article reviews appropriate assessment and intervention and highlights family care.
Exercise is key part of stroke recovery
FDA podcast addresses dangers of long-term, high dosage use of Diflucan during pregnancy
Hospice and palliative care
What nurses don’t know about hospice and palliative care can hurt the patient and family.
Long-term cancer survivorship nurse practitioner care model promotes patient quality of life
Make a difference as a rehabilitation nurse
Medication adherence report gives U.S. C+
New certification for oncology rehabilitation
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Our Readers Respond
Person-centered care and dementia
Post-intensive care syndrome: What it is and how to help prevent it
ICU stays can cause physical and cognitive problems for years after discharge. Find out how to improve patient outcomes.
Pressure injury prevention in long-term care
Refining stool consistency descriptors can help prevent adverse outcomes
Sickle cell trait can take a sudden deadly turn
For someone with sickle cell trait, exercise can trigger dangerous complications. But most people who have the trait, don’t know it.
Study: Cost analysis of ACL reconstruction surgery
The new health insurance marketplace
Our editor-in-chief discusses the upcoming insurance requirement related to the Affordable Care Act and emphasizes the need for nurses to be knowledgeable about the requirements so they can help friends, family, and patients navigate the health insurance marketplace.
Understanding seizures in children
Although seizures are scary for the child, parents, and bystanders, most pediatric seizures can be controlled or eliminated.
Update on home health care: How it’s changing
By understanding how home health care has changed, acute-care nurses can partner more effectively with home care nurses.