Can you fire a patient?
The answer may surprise you. WHAT can you do with a patient who won’t comply with any of your directives? You’ve provided education until…
Legal & Ethics
Compassion: A nurse’s primary virtue
Strengthening compassion may help you avoid burnout. Nurses, we’re told, are fundamentally compassionate people. In fact, nurse burnout could be defined as the loss…
The opioid crisis and the matter of consent
Lives in the balance By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN It’s 3 am and you’re called to an apartment complex for a person down.…
The giving time
Real nurses nurture their young. By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN My mother once told me that the first half of your life is…
Patients need more sleep
By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN “Sleep, gentle sleep that…knits up the raveled sleave of care.” —Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene II As most…
Why some people are healthy, and others are not: Part 2
Once you’ve decided that early childhood development is one key to a healthy life, you’re forced into a world that’s part neurobiology and psychoneuroendocrinology,…
Social media missteps could put your nursing license at risk
Without a doubt, social media has become an integral part of modern life. Today, seven in 10 Americans use social media to get news,…
From the Ethics Box: Right to Try
My patient is terminally ill. There may be a treatment, but it isn’t FDA approved. Do patients have a right to try investigational treatments,…
Why some people are healthy, and others are not
What we know…and how long we’ve known it By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN Why do some people stay healthy, while others get sick?…
From the Ethics Inbox: When a nurse’s privacy is breached by social media
What protects nursing staff and students when a patient livestreams nursing care on Facebook? Should patients ever be permitted to photograph or record nurses…
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…
Situational awareness and the Nursing Code of Ethics
In 2015, the American Nurses Association (ANA) revised the Code of Ethics for Nurses (The Code) to better reflect “the complexities of modern nursing,…
Can you fire a patient?
The answer may surprise you. WHAT can you do with a patient who won’t comply with any of your directives? You’ve provided…
Compassion: A nurse’s primary virtue
Strengthening compassion may help you avoid burnout. Nurses, we’re told, are fundamentally compassionate people. In fact, nurse burnout could be defined as…
The opioid crisis and the matter of consent
Lives in the balance By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN It’s 3 am and you’re called to an apartment complex for a…
The giving time
Real nurses nurture their young. By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN My mother once told me that the first half of your…
Patients need more sleep
By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN “Sleep, gentle sleep that…knits up the raveled sleave of care.” —Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene II…
Why some people are healthy, and others are not: Part 2
Once you’ve decided that early childhood development is one key to a healthy life, you’re forced into a world that’s part neurobiology…
Social media missteps could put your nursing license at risk
Without a doubt, social media has become an integral part of modern life. Today, seven in 10 Americans use social media to…
From the Ethics Box: Right to Try
My patient is terminally ill. There may be a treatment, but it isn’t FDA approved. Do patients have a right to try…
Why some people are healthy, and others are not
What we know…and how long we’ve known it By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN Why do some people stay healthy, while others…
From the Ethics Inbox: When a nurse’s privacy is breached by social media
What protects nursing staff and students when a patient livestreams nursing care on Facebook? Should patients ever be permitted to photograph or…
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…
Situational awareness and the Nursing Code of Ethics
In 2015, the American Nurses Association (ANA) revised the Code of Ethics for Nurses (The Code) to better reflect “the complexities of…
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