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COVID-19 pandemic
A call to care: A model for creating an employee COVID-19 screening clinic
Takeaways: Setting up an employee COVID testing clinic requires leadership, coordination, and can be a model of patient-centered nursing care.…
A critical Pathway to Excellence® standard
Initiatives promote nurses’ well-being during the pandemic. Ensuring nurses’ well-being isn’t just a concept for healthcare systems and organizations that…
A nurse’s notes on New Year’s resolutions
It’s the most promising time of the year. A clean slate ahead and a chance for a fresh start. No…
American Nurses Association Honors Fallen Nurses on One-Year Anniversary of Coronavirus Pandemic
SILVER SPRING, MD—Today, March 11th, marks the one-year anniversary of the day when the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a…
An ounce of prevention
Engage in practical training through Project Firstline. A lifetime of working with patients with serious burn injuries truly ingrained in…
ANA advocates for nurses’ health and safety
Collaborating in the new year to address pandemic challenges together As nurses contend with the pandemic and its multi-layered effects…
ANA Enterprise News | August 2021
Virtual Hill Day spotlights three key issues More than 300 enthusiastic and informed nurses attended nearly 325 virtual Congressional meetings…
Assessing unit culture
Health systems grapple with the uneasy balance between creating excellent patient experiences and protecting the workforce. Many have started crisis prevention and intervention training, but staff may feel ill-equipped to deal with verbal escalation and violent responses. Other organizations have developed codes of conduct.
Beyond the pandemic: Looking forward
How a global health crisis has changed nursing. It’s hard to believe we’ve been dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for…
Brighter days ahead
Marking one year of the pandemic and nurses’ response We generally think of anniversaries as causes for celebration, as is…
COVID-19 and PTSD in frontline nurses
Learn to identify and manage this condition in yourself and your colleagues. Takeaways: Frontline nurses are at high risk for…
COVID-19 diagnostic testing
Nurse knowledge can improve test administration, ensure efficacy, and increase result accuracy Takeaways: • Three COVID-19 diagnostic testing methods are…
COVID-19 Vaccine Errors – ISMP Issues Initial Report
Ever since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines last…
COVID-19 vaccine handling: Maximizing doses and public confidence
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is proud of the leading role nurses play at all levels of the COVID-19 pandemic,…
COVID-19 vaccines: What you need to know
A critical intervention to help end the pandemic. Scientists began work to develop a safe and effective vaccine soon after…
Cross-training: Preparing for disasters beyond the pandemic
A three-phase approach addressed immediate needs and enhanced nurses’ skills and confidence. Editor’s note: This is an early release of…
How shall we mourn our dead?
Take your time and follow the path that’s right for you. Since May 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
How transformational leaders address fear amid COVID-19
You can provide the guidance nurses need. Editor’s note: This is an early release of an article that will appear…
Joint Commission releases Sentinel Event Alert in response to COVID-19 pandemic
Healthcare workers struggling, expressing fears Earlier this week, The Joint Commission released a Sentinel Event Alert addressing the fears of…
Looking beyond the pandemic: A virtual roundtable
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, but many are starting to ponder its lasting effects on nursing. The editorial…
Navigating excellence during a pandemic: The Magnet® program director’s role
Use the Magnet model components as a framework for meeting a crisis. Takeaways: Nursing leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic requires…
Nurse-led, science-based: A campaign to arm nurses with COVID-19 vaccine knowledge
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, determined nurses and frontline healthcare workers have put patients’ health, safety, and lives above…
Nurses during COVID-19’s next wave
We need to accept responsibility for our choices. I’m proud to be a nurse. You’ve made me prouder of my…
Nurses rise to the challenge
Lessons learned and shared The past 12 months have challenged the nursing profession like never before. Appropriately deemed the Year…
Nurses rising
Recognizing, elevating, and caring for RNs during a pandemic As we celebrated the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President…
Nurses take the lead on COVID-19 vaccination
Innovation and coordination are keys for success. As authorized COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed across the nation, RNs are leading…
Nurses’ health in the wake of COVID-19
Using HNHN survey data to examine trends, address needs The COVID-19 pandemic has put extraordinary strain on nurses, exacerbating the…
Online health information and self-diagnosis
To: Ethics Advisory Board From: Concerned RN Subject: Self-diagnosis During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients are asking me about…
PPE not designed for female workers, experts say
Global health professionals are pointing out that personal protective equipment (PPE) is usually designed for men, leaving female health workers…
Similarities between Spanish Flu and the COVID-19 pandemic
The Spanish Flu and COVID-19 pandemics create some interesting parallels. Separated by almost exactly 100 years, each struck fear and…
Storytelling: Resilience and influence in minutes
During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses too often are the last and only person in the room when a patient dies.…
The Relentless School Nurse: One Year Into the Pandemic
I spent part of last weekend re-reading my blog posts from exactly one year ago. How naive I was, thinking…
The SCOOP: Involving family in care during COVID-19 pandemic
A simple but structured process ensures effective communication. Involving patients’ families in the perioperative process is crucial for family-centered care,…
The Stories That Never Get Told – Compassion
Compassion and caring at the heart of nursing. It was too late. I could never speak to him again. By…
VIDEO: U. of Louisville Health nurses discuss pandemic struggles
Compassion fatigue, staffing, personal loss and more On the February 6 edition of 60 Minutes, nurses and staff from University…
What Older Americans Need to Know About Taking Paxlovid
A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults…
When COVID-19 strikes home
My personal story The pandemic’s impact on frontline caregivers has captured headlines and hearts for months. I read as many…
Younger nurses’ mental health disproportionately affected by pandemic
Findings from a second annual impact assessment released by the American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) on March 1 underscore the…
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