Nurses focus on pandemic challenges while looking to the future
The current and ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism dominated discussions at the 2020 American Nurses Association (ANA) Membership Assembly, which was held virtually for the first time.
More than 400 representatives...
Nurse turnover: Understand it, reduce it
What can employers do to increase nurse retention?
Takeaways:
Because of the stress involved in nursing, many healthcare organizations have high rates of nurse turnover.
The cost of nurse turnover can have a huge impact...
Creating a healthy working environment is every nurse’s responsibility
How clinical faculty and practicing clinicians can collaborate to help students learn professionalism.
Takeaways:
Professionalism creates the foundation for civil and healthy work environments.
According to the American Nurses Association, a healthy work environment is...
Keeping well during COVID-19 pandemic
One nurse’s story.
When Sarah Oerther, MSN, MEd, RN, FRSPH, was selected for ANA Enterprise’s Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ (HNHN) #healthynurse spotlight in late 2019, she had no idea how her wellness would be tested...
Care and collaboration equal successful organ donation
Nurses can work with the organ donation team to meet patients’ wishes and optimize donation benefits.
Takeaways:
Nurses and other healthcare disciplines must be knowledgeable about organ donation.
Early identification of a potential organ donor...
Honoring the nurse victims of COVID-19
We at American Nurse Journal want to acknowledge the nurses and other healthcare workers who have given their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses, physicians, and first responders tend to garner the most media...
Nurse Heroes– Nurses lead during the pandemic
We at American Nurse Journal are privileged to highlight the amazing job nurses are doing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At what is too often high personal sacrifice, they are caring for patients,...
Being prepared and just
ANA calls for reinvesting in public health for all.
Every nurse, every person, should care about public health. Yet our society hasn’t treated it as a priority. Public health frequently is one of the...
A practical guide for managing a specimen point of collection site for COVID-19
During this unprecedented time in history, nurses are taking on new roles and responsibilities. One role that nurses in outpatient settings are taking on is working at specimen point of collection (SPOC) sites. These...
On being human during crisis
When we show vulnerability it does not mean we lack resilience – it means we are human. Typically, leaders in nursing pride themselves for being strong, ever knowing, and above all, crisis experts. But...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing
Insights, instincts, and a few gut feelings.
The pandemic has quickly changed our world, our profession, and our vision for the future. While we were celebrating holidays in December 2019, the first reports of a...
How to address racial injustice in the workplace and community
To: Ethics Advisory Board
From: Concerned RN
Subject: I want to make a difference
I am a white frontline nurse in a medium-sized, full-service hospital. I am profoundly moved by the injustices I see occurring to...
Willie Manzano: From NYC’s COVID-19 response to a brighter future
The first patient with the new coronavirus arrived at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in March, the earliest in a wave of people suffering from the confounding, world-changing virus.
As New York emerged as an epicenter of the...