Highlighting the CNO’s role: An interview with Linda Stoverock
The American Nurse team is delighted to have had an opportunity to speak with Linda Stoverock, a nurse who is retiring after a 43-year long career in the nursing field, 20 of which has been as...
Build resilient teams to tackle nursing burnout
Use purpose, priorities, perspective, and personal responsibility to create culture-changing teams.
Takeaways:
Burnout has been identified as a public health crisis, negatively affecting individuals, organizations, patients, and communities.
Enhanced personal resilience should be simultaneously combined...
The perils of perfectionism in nursing
Don’t let perfectionism derail your leadership career.
Takeaways:
Perfectionism is a weakness masquerading as a strength.
A perfectionist approach can cause even the best and brightest people to feel unmotivated, devalued, dependent, disempowered, frustrated, and...
Rapid Response: Supraventricular tachycardia
A quick response ensures good outcome.
Takeaways:
Supraventricular tachycardia is a broad term describing a fast regular rhythm originating above the atrioventricular (AV) node.
A narrow complex and regular rhythm would suggest AV nodal reentrant...
High physician suicide rates: Nursing interventions
How can physicians give patients the care and compassion they don’t receive themselves?
Every year 300-400 physicians commit suicide. In her poignant TEDMED talk Dr. Pamela Wible discusses her book, “Physician Suicide Letters Answered”...
Finding Your First Travel Nursing Assignment
So you’ve done the research and decided that you want to give travel nursing a try. Great! The next step is to find your first assignment. This can seem like a daunting task, but...
What works: Equitable nurse-patient assignments using a workload tool
One unit’s experience developing and implementing a process change.
Takeaways:
Implementation of a workload tool can promote equitable workloads and improve perceived nurse satisfaction.
Continuous collaboration within the multi-levels of leadership and bedside nurses is...
ANA In Brief: February 2020 Frontline
Nurses declared most honest, ethical for 18 years straight
The American Nurses Association (ANA) con-gratulates nurses for maintaining the #1 spot in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll for the 18th consecutive year....
Key components for optimal staffing
New principles help make this complex goal attainable.
Nurse staffing is essential to the delivery of safe, quality healthcare in every practice setting. Nurses have a unique knowledge and understanding of how to respond to...
American Nurse welcomes “America’s Favorite Nurse,” Nurse Alice
What does year of the nurses mean for nurses?
The World Health Organization (WHO) designation of 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife is a major accolade and win for nurses...
The HealthyNurse® Leader
Nursing leaders—including managers, directors, and executives—are dedicated to advancing nursing excellence and inspiring and empowering teams. They must analyze nursing knowledge and practice environments, and strategize to ensure that safe, evidence-based nursing care is...
Level loading nurse assignments based on the work intensity
Takeaways
Nursing assignments frequently are based on ratios and geography rather than work intensity associated with a specific patient assignment.
Nurse satisfaction and perceptions of assignment fairness are highly correlated with workload.
A quantifiable...
ANA releases updated Principles for Nurse Staffing
In September, the American Nurses Association (ANA) released an update to its Principles for Nurse Staffing, a guide to help nurses and other decision makers identify and develop processes and policies to improve nurse...