Preventing identity theft
Don’t let thieves damage your credit or disrupt your life. Takeaways: Someone becomes a victim of identity theft every 2 seconds. In addition to…
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Pressure injury prevention in long-term care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that pressure injuries (PIs) affect millions of patients each year, with incidence rates ranging from 2.2%…
Geriatric medication reconciliation in the home setting
A patient-centered approach can improve outcomes. Strategies for improving medication reconciliation include creating multidisciplinary teams, keeping detailed records, and working with information technology to…
What are your shift pain points?
Staffing—it’s complicated. As a frontline nurse, you acutely feel the pain when plans to adequately staff units go awry. As a nurse leader, you…
My experience on American Nurse Heroes
In a clinical encounter, nurses get to interview a patient, asking them the most private of questions, and with the help of a stethoscope…
Pandemics and ‘One Health’
The intertwining of nature, wildlife, and humans increases the risk of disease spread. With the world’s attention gripped by vaccinating the population against COVID-19,…
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…
From the publisher
These past 15 months brought nurses’ exceptionalism to the forefront of the nation’s collective conscience—not just the qualities of compassion, dedication, and self-sacrifice, but…
C.A.R.E. to prevent medical device related pressure injuries
As patient care equipment and technology evolve, medical device-related hospital-acquired pressure injuries continue to capture national healthcare attention. These frequently preventable injuries, which develop…
Evidence-based strategies to prevent enteral nutrition complications
Enteral nutrition (EN), commonly called tube feeding, is defined by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) as a system of providing…
Caring for individuals with sickle cell disease
Nurses play a pivotal role in ensuring optimal care. Takeaways: Sickle cell disease is an inherited chronic condition that affects nearly every system in…
Is the Code of Ethics for Nurses a legal document?
What if I make an inadvertent, unethical practice error? Is the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements a legal document that can…
Preventing identity theft
Don’t let thieves damage your credit or disrupt your life. Takeaways: Someone becomes a victim of identity theft every 2 seconds. In…
Pressure injury prevention in long-term care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that pressure injuries (PIs) affect millions of patients each year, with incidence rates ranging…
Geriatric medication reconciliation in the home setting
A patient-centered approach can improve outcomes. Strategies for improving medication reconciliation include creating multidisciplinary teams, keeping detailed records, and working with information…
What are your shift pain points?
Staffing—it’s complicated. As a frontline nurse, you acutely feel the pain when plans to adequately staff units go awry. As a nurse…
My experience on American Nurse Heroes
In a clinical encounter, nurses get to interview a patient, asking them the most private of questions, and with the help of…
Pandemics and ‘One Health’
The intertwining of nature, wildlife, and humans increases the risk of disease spread. With the world’s attention gripped by vaccinating the population…
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…
From the publisher
These past 15 months brought nurses’ exceptionalism to the forefront of the nation’s collective conscience—not just the qualities of compassion, dedication, and…
C.A.R.E. to prevent medical device related pressure injuries
As patient care equipment and technology evolve, medical device-related hospital-acquired pressure injuries continue to capture national healthcare attention. These frequently preventable injuries,…
Evidence-based strategies to prevent enteral nutrition complications
Enteral nutrition (EN), commonly called tube feeding, is defined by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) as a system…
Caring for individuals with sickle cell disease
Nurses play a pivotal role in ensuring optimal care. Takeaways: Sickle cell disease is an inherited chronic condition that affects nearly every…
Is the Code of Ethics for Nurses a legal document?
What if I make an inadvertent, unethical practice error? Is the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements a legal document…