letters to the editor

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Advanced skill certification

Historically, nurses are required to obtain only Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and/or Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization. However, they’re expected…
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Aid-in-dying discussion requires knowledge, insight

Dear Editor, Physician-assisted suicide (aid-in-dying) is a new era of ethical conundrum about which public opinion and policy has evolved quite rapidly such that professional organizations and individual…

COVID-19 messaging

Many nurses have now been on the shifting frontlines of the COVID-19 response for five months, following the virus from hotspot to hotspot. I have gained a true…
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Effective communication is the key

In the article, “Providing effective communication to patients who are deaf or hard of hearing,” Omobola Awosika Oyeleye presented the legal obligations of nurses to provide communication regarding…
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Gun safety

As a nurse, it’s hard to hear news reports about children younger than 5 years old in hospital emergency departments (EDs) with gunshot wounds. How do we stop…

Legalization of marijuana and schizophrenia

The legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes is a hot topic in many states. As a mother and healthcare professional, I feel it is imperative that…

Letters to the editor: Make your voice heard

Journal articles aren’t the only way you can disseminate information. Letters to the editors—if done correctly—can be a powerful way to make your voice heard not only in…
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Medical cannabis

In 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the opioid epidemic caused 70,237 deaths. Of those 70,237 deaths, 47,600 were directly related to opioid prescription…
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On nurses and mental health

Dear Editor, Nurses are quitting or on the verge of doing so (Statpearls, 2022). Positions for nurses in healthcare are always in high demand, but the demand on…
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On RaDonda Vaught: reader reactions

#notmetoo or I am RaDonda The #metoo movement is one of speaking up and out against silence associated with sexual violence, stopping those who perpetrate it, and holding…
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Patients’ role in healthcare innovation

Can patients be drivers of innovation within the medical supply category? A good way to start is empowering those with their own medical challenges to create solutions for…

RaDonda Vaught: how to move forward?

To The Editor: I felt compelled to write about the verdict on RaDonda Vaught, RN, after she had made a medication error. I feel that the jurors failed…

Response to ‘Future of Nursing’ report

In reading the piece written by the journal’s editor-in-chief regarding the future of nursing I was impressed with the sweeping reform goals. I was somewhat disappointed however by…

Setting goals for the New Year

I am sitting in my home office (that is pushing aside my craft room more and more) staring out the window, with little energy for much more than…

The right path

“If you know, you know”, a quote that still rings true, to this same girl who idealized the vision of becoming a nurse at the age of 6.…
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To the New Nurse

As an educator for the nurses of the future, My job is to teach, inspire, cultivate and care I want them to love nursing as I do, Not…

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