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UV-C: A tool for disinfecting mobile devices

Staff satisfied with cleaning workflow. Takeaways: Smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices are being used with increasing frequency in healthcare, but protocols for cleaning them aren’t keeping pace. Published studies report significant contamination on mobile devices used in healthcare, creating…
Patricia Bunge graduated from Toledo Hospital School of Nursing in 1954. She celebrated her 90th birthday this year.

Mrs. Bunge or The Curious Nurse

If not for Mrs. Bunge I would not be a nurse today. Patricia Bunge graduated from Toledo Hospital School of Nursing in 1954.
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Pediatric pain management

An individualized, multimodal, and interprofessional approach is key for success. Takeaways: Many pediatric patients experience unnecessary pain because of undertreatment and inadequate pain management after surgery. Barriers to pediatric pain management include inadequate provider orders, insufficient time to provide pain…
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Advancing nurses’ roles in care coordination

By Elizabeth Moore Traditionally, care coordination has been a central role for nurses, who are key to ensuring patients’ multidimensional needs are being met at the bedside, as they transition from one care setting to the next, and as they…

Stroke: Act FAST

The FAST acronym (Face, Arm, Speech, Time to call 911) are critical to recognizing signs of stroke and ensuring quick treatment. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) stroke scale, which provides a numeric score based on assessment results.
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Preventing identity theft

Don’t let thieves damage your credit or disrupt your life. Takeaways: Someone becomes a victim of identity theft every 2 seconds. In addition to interfering with your ability to file tax returns, obtain a driver’s license, open a bank or…
Navigating Authority Gradients

Navigating authority gradients

Four approaches can help promote effective communication and positive outcomes. Takeaways: Authority gradients occur when individuals perceive differences in status that make them feel uncomfortable. When nurses don’t speak up, negative consequences can. Four approaches for strategically speaking up include:…

Skin health: Protecting your largest organ

Nurses’ skin is under assault. Continuous handwashing; irritation from personal protective equipment (PPE); and exposure to disinfectants, sterilants, and other chemicals take their toll on our protective barrier. The sun and cold weather also can damage and exacerbate skin dryness…

ANA responds to Supreme Court rulings

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down three key rulings this summer in cases that the American Nurses Association (ANA) had been monitoring, two that protect the rights of vulnerable populations and another that erodes insurance coverage for preventive reproductive services…
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LGBTQ+ nursing: Glancing back, looking forward

In America and in many parts of the world, June is celebrated as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, a celebration of the Stonewall uprising in the early hours of June 28, 1969, signaling the gay liberation movement. The first time I saw…

Speaking out

A critical time for nurses and all vulnerable populations. (more…)
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Support nurses with job embeddedness

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the nursing role has expanded to include emotional supporter, caregiver, and the last person a patient bonds with before they die. The extreme patient load many nurses are experiencing leaves them with no time to grieve…
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Smart pumps, smart management, safe patients

When organizations and clinicians team up, patients are protected.  Takeaways: Medication administration errors continue to occur due to mistakes in smart electronic infusion pump setup, programming, and clinical management. Patients suffer the consequences of medication errors associated with smart infusion…
Addressing the nurse faculty shortage

Addressing the nurse faculty shortage

Filling the gap requires collaboration and preparation. In academic nursing circles, the issues behind the nurse faculty shortage persist as a matter of great and growing concern. As a nation, we struggle to produce the number of RNs needed in…

Nurse suicide: Prevention and grief management

In the article “Grief management after a nurse’s death”, we provided guidelines for helping healthcare organizations support staff as they grieve a colleague’s death. However, when a nurse dies by suicide, grief can be exacerbated by guilt and anger, and…

Flu vaccination and COVID-19

Educate your patients about the importance of protection.   Currently, development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a work in progress with no fixed date for availability. This means it’s especially important that all Americans be vaccinated against the anticipated flu strains.…