Enteral feeding: Indications, complications, and nursing care
Enteral feedings deliver nourishment through a tube directly into the GI tract. They’re ordered for patients with a functioning GI tract who can’t ingest enough nutrition…
Patient Safety
Dumped: When nursing homes abandon patients to the hospital
Margie is an 86-year-old nursing home resident who has developed a bladder infection. As is the case with many elderly women, she also is…
Fall prevention: A contract with patients and families
Editor’s note: This is the second of three case studies describing success stories in preventing falls and injuries from falls. The series is brought to…
Fall prevention: Applying the evidence
This is the first in a series of three case studies illustrating success stories in preventing falls and injuries from falls. The series is brought…
Safe patient handling and mobility: The journey continues
Hazards associated with manual patient handling continue to compromise the health and safety of nurses. Among nurses who responded to the American Nurses Association’s (ANA’s) Health Risk Appraisal: •…
Five strategies to help prevent nurses’ patient-handling injuries
For too many years, musculoskeletal injuries from moving patients have been common among practicing nurses. It’s time to put all of our energy— both from an individual and…
Patient handling injuries: Risk factors and risk-reduction strategies
For more than 40 years, nurses have had the highest jobrelated injury rates of all healthcare personnel. In a 2011 survey conducted by the American Nurses Association: • 62%…
Safeguarding patients: The courageous communication solution
So how do you get a colleague’s attention when you have a safety concern? The Department of Defense partnered with the Agency for Healthcare…
A conversation about the ethics of staffing
Editor’s note: In March 2016, Leah Curtin RN,ScD,FAAN, a living legend in nursing for her work in ethics, was asked to address the American…
Hours per patient day: Understanding this key measure of productivity
Tracking HPPD helps to ensure each of the units in a hospital are meeting financial targets in order to remain financially healthy. Administrators, charge…
ANA sharps injury prevention stakeholder group
Continued efforts by ANA to enhance healthcare worker safety resulted in the formation of a sharps injury stakeholder’s group in 2015. The group meets…
Adding an I to SBAR: A new twist on communicating patient emergencies
In the 2000 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Institute of Medicine challenged the healthcare system to focus on…
Enteral feeding: Indications, complications, and nursing care
Enteral feedings deliver nourishment through a tube directly into the GI tract. They’re ordered for patients with a functioning GI tract who can’t ingest…
Dumped: When nursing homes abandon patients to the hospital
Margie is an 86-year-old nursing home resident who has developed a bladder infection. As is the case with many elderly women, she…
Fall prevention: A contract with patients and families
Editor’s note: This is the second of three case studies describing success stories in preventing falls and injuries from falls. The series is…
Fall prevention: Applying the evidence
This is the first in a series of three case studies illustrating success stories in preventing falls and injuries from falls. The series…
Safe patient handling and mobility: The journey continues
Hazards associated with manual patient handling continue to compromise the health and safety of nurses. Among nurses who responded to the American Nurses Association’s (ANA’s) Health Risk…
Five strategies to help prevent nurses’ patient-handling injuries
For too many years, musculoskeletal injuries from moving patients have been common among practicing nurses. It’s time to put all of our energy— both from an…
Patient handling injuries: Risk factors and risk-reduction strategies
For more than 40 years, nurses have had the highest jobrelated injury rates of all healthcare personnel. In a 2011 survey conducted by the American Nurses Association:…
Safeguarding patients: The courageous communication solution
So how do you get a colleague’s attention when you have a safety concern? The Department of Defense partnered with the Agency…
A conversation about the ethics of staffing
Editor’s note: In March 2016, Leah Curtin RN,ScD,FAAN, a living legend in nursing for her work in ethics, was asked to address…
Hours per patient day: Understanding this key measure of productivity
Tracking HPPD helps to ensure each of the units in a hospital are meeting financial targets in order to remain financially healthy.…
ANA sharps injury prevention stakeholder group
Continued efforts by ANA to enhance healthcare worker safety resulted in the formation of a sharps injury stakeholder’s group in 2015. The…
Adding an I to SBAR: A new twist on communicating patient emergencies
In the 2000 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the Institute of Medicine challenged the healthcare system to…
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