This electronic tool keeps patients and families informed on key aspects of care.
compassion
Above and beyond bed bath
Acts of kindness
And the music plays on…
Beasts, gods and FaceTime: The anguish of visitor limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Beasts, gods and FaceTime: The anguish of visitor limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic
Being with Dying
Your most powerful message has nothing to do with words.
Beyond customer service
Many nurses don’t like to hear their patients called “customers” or be told to provide “customer service.” This expert explains how to lose the lingo and adapt the principles of customer service to patient care.
Carefronting: An innovative approach to managing conflict
Caring for my best friend
Caring under pressure
Compassion holds everything together
Despite our physical separation from each other, we’re still all connected and react to what happens to each other. Compassion is the unifying force that holds it all together.
Compassion: A nurse’s primary virtue
Contemplation, connection, collaboration: Keys to compassionate spiritual care
Defusing lateral violence and abuse
If you’ve been on the receiving end of this behavior, you need to express your needs and set boundaries assertively.
Faith, community, and health: Partnerships with good neighbors
Our editor-in-chief turns a spotlight on faith and community partnerships.
Far from home, bringing smiles to children’s faces
From our readers: Harp song — A journey to remember and embrace the heart of nursing
From our readers: How a ‘45-year-old STEMI’ showed me the human side of nursing
From our readers…At the Bedside
From the Ethics Box: Right to Try
Gifts that keep on giving
Health, safety, & wellness
Helping hands of nurses
Helping homeless pregnant women: A lesson in hope
For some pregnant women, being home for the holidays means staying at a homeless shelter.
How to deliver bad news
Healthcare providers often must give bad news to patients and families. Doing this in a direct, concise, compassionate way is a skill that equired practice.
Improving HCAHPS scores the old fashioned way
Hospitals seeking to raise their HCAHPS score should focus on old-fashioned values—courtesy, kindness,respect, discipline, and commitment.
In good company: Perspectives on sitting with patients
Jewish nurse who treated Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect ‘didn’t see evil’
Leading with kindness
Let there be peace
A special holiday message from our editor-in-chief.
Making community health care culturally correct
Cultural awareness can lead to better outcomes.
Mindful Listening
Nurses caring and sharing
From the U.S. to Uganda, in sleek American hospitals and makeshift Afghan clinics, nurses give of themselves to transform lives. Compelled by a deep passion to aid people in need, nurses help sustain human dignity and humanity through their caring presence and heart-to-heart sharing.
Parting gifts
Our time in this life is perhaps the most important gift we enjoy.
Pooling the power of goodness to create change
Commitment and compassion can do more to transform health care
than any competitive business model can.
Providing effective communication to patients who are deaf or hard of hearing
Reflections on the heart of nursing
Schwartz Rounds: Self-care at its finest
Silence and Solace
Take the chance
The Babies Doe: Finding middle ground
The author explores ethical questions about caring for a baby with profound birth defects and offers a nursing answer.
The ethical will: A loving legacy
An ethical will serves as a vehicle for distilling a lifetime of wisdom and relaying messages of hope and love.
The Higgs boson particle glues it together, but we give it meaning
Discovery of the “God particle” reinforces both the standard model of particle physics and the quantum model.
The little things we do
The Maslow effect: A humanist legacy for nursing
The quantum edge: Emotional contagion
Quantum physics suggests that if you hang around happy people, you’ll be happier.
The Stories That Never Get Told – Compassion
Touch of kindness
Helping a little victim of sexual assault brings a profound realization.