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oncology

The journey of oncology navigation

Nurse navigators help avoid care fragmentation and support shared decision making. Takeaways: Patient navigation aims to increase health equity among patients with cancer and can be applied in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Navigators, members of the oncology…
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Biosimilars: An alternative to biologics

Biosimilars may help lower drug costs for patients. Takeaways: Biologics and biosimilars are classes of drugs used to treat many complex conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. Many people, including patients and nurses, are unfamiliar with biosimilars.…
Pediatric Sepsis

Pediatric sepsis: Are you ready?

Sepsis has received much attention recently, but the pediatric population is missing from many of these discussions. Increased nursing knowledge about sepsis recognition, management, and emergency care can improve outcomes for these patients.

Honoring the nurse victims of COVID-19

We at American Nurse Journal want to acknowledge the nurses and other healthcare workers who have given their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses, physicians, and first responders tend to garner the most media attention, but let’s not forget the…
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Remember Your Inner Nurse During the Holidays

During the holidays, with the comings and goings of family and friends, I was reminded of the tension between personal self-care and professional self-care. There is this side of work/life balance that is implicitly influenced by the people I grew…

Killing for profit

Reinforcing hospice’s valuable services after disturbing court case (more…)

The power of small acts of kindness

I was at a gas station when an elderly woman asked me if I could help her because she made an “oopsie”. In an attempt to refill her windshield washer fluid, she had managed to pour washer fluid into her…

Metformin-associated lactic acidosis

Metformin-associated lactic acidosis is associated with a high mortality rate when treatment is delayed or the patient takes an unintentional overdose. Patients at risk for metformin toxicity include those with impaired renal function, liver disease, and hemodynamic instability.
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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…
anxiety in primary care

Anxiety in primary care: A primer for APRNs

Anxiety disorders commonly present in primary care settings, and advanced practice RNs (APRNs) will benefit from understanding treatment options that promote positive outcomes. Several effective nonpharmacologic options exist that APRNs can recommend to patients with anxiety symptoms.
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Nurse Entrepreneurship: No Longer on the Fringes

A decade or more ago, when I told someone that I was a nurse entrepreneur, I would get the most quizzical and confused looks, including from quite a few nurses. They would say, “But nurses can’t be business people.” And…

We must #EndNurseAbuse

RNs are vulnerable during COVID-19.   The stress of a pandemic can put nurses at higher risk of becoming targets of workplace violence. Now more than ever, the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasizes its long-standing position of zero tolerance for incivility,…
Eloise Richardson

Remembering Eloise Richardson

During World War II, countless women answered the call to serve, stepping into roles that reshaped history and helped turn the tide in humanity’s darkest hour. They served as mechanics, nurses, codebreakers, factory workers, and spies. They fulfilled their duties…

Risk stratification of CVD in type 2 diabetes

An estimated 34 million Americans, age 18 years and older, have diabetes, most with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) as well as a high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). More than 80% of patients with diabetes meet or rank above the…
Hospital at home

Hospital at home

Expand capacity, increase patient satisfaction, improve outcomes  Takeaways: Outside of the United States, countries such as England, Canada, and Australia have long op­erated hospital-at-home programs. Studies indicate that hospital at home can lower costs, reduce length of stay, and improve…
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Comparing Pathway to Excellence® and Magnet Recognition® Programs

Two roads to nurse engagement and quality outcomes. Takeaways: Magnet recognizes healthcare organizations for quality outcomes, patient care and nursing excellence, and innovations in professional practice Pathway emphasizes supportive practice environments, including a established shared-governance structure that values nurses’ contributions…