Social media in healthcare: A 360-degree view
What to do when patients record you working. Takeaways: Misuse of social media occurs when users (patients or nurses) post information that isn’t their…
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Transport teams and patient handoff reports
In September 2017, The Joint Commission released a Sentinel Event Alert about the importance of adequate patient handoff reports at each change in patient…
Transitioning from nurse clinician to nurse educator
The future of nursing and healthcare requires more nurse educators. Takeaways: The nursing profession needs more nurse educators to train enough nurses to care…
Your brain on optimism
Positive nursing role models know how to train their brain to be more optimistic. (more…)
Hospital and skilled nursing facility collaboration reduces infections
IN RESPONSE to healthcare challenges presented by antibiotiresistant infections, increasingly more complex patients, and patient transfers from hospitals into long-term care facilities, the Centers…
Total pancreatectomy with islet cell autologous transplantation: A treatment modality for patients with chronic pancreatitis pain
ONE IN FIVE patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis will develop recurrent acute pancreatitis, and one in three of them will develop chronic pancreatitis (CP),…
Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation Year Two Highlights
On May 1, 2017, ANA Enterprise launched a bold initiative—Healthy Nurse, Healthy NationTM (HNHN) Grand Challenge—to transform the health of our nation by first…
What’s new about measles?
Measles has been in the news frequently this year given recent outbreaks of this vaccine-preventable disease. Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963,…
The new-to-setting nurse: Understanding and supporting clinical transitions
The nursing process can help guide nurses through this career change. (more…)
Early intervention can prevent behavior escalation
Collaborative plan development between patients and staff can facilitate de-escalation. (more…)
Driving to zero harm with nursing morbidity and mortality conferences
An operating room’s quality-improvement project increased communication and transparency. (more…)
Social media in healthcare: A 360-degree view
What to do when patients record you working. Takeaways: Misuse of social media occurs when users (patients or nurses) post information that…
Transport teams and patient handoff reports
In September 2017, The Joint Commission released a Sentinel Event Alert about the importance of adequate patient handoff reports at each change…
Transitioning from nurse clinician to nurse educator
The future of nursing and healthcare requires more nurse educators. Takeaways: The nursing profession needs more nurse educators to train enough nurses…
Your brain on optimism
Positive nursing role models know how to train their brain to be more optimistic. (more…)
Hospital and skilled nursing facility collaboration reduces infections
IN RESPONSE to healthcare challenges presented by antibiotiresistant infections, increasingly more complex patients, and patient transfers from hospitals into long-term care facilities,…
Total pancreatectomy with islet cell autologous transplantation: A treatment modality for patients with chronic pancreatitis pain
ONE IN FIVE patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis will develop recurrent acute pancreatitis, and one in three of them will develop chronic…
Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation Year Two Highlights
On May 1, 2017, ANA Enterprise launched a bold initiative—Healthy Nurse, Healthy NationTM (HNHN) Grand Challenge—to transform the health of our nation…
What’s new about measles?
Measles has been in the news frequently this year given recent outbreaks of this vaccine-preventable disease. Before the measles vaccine was introduced…
The new-to-setting nurse: Understanding and supporting clinical transitions
The nursing process can help guide nurses through this career change. (more…)
Early intervention can prevent behavior escalation
Collaborative plan development between patients and staff can facilitate de-escalation. (more…)
Driving to zero harm with nursing morbidity and mortality conferences
An operating room’s quality-improvement project increased communication and transparency. (more…)