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Why your nursing networks matter

Networks help you advance your career, provide high-quality care, and support your colleagues. Takeaways: Professional networks are crucially connected to quality patient care. Building a professional network can take two paths: a network in your immediate clinical environment or one…
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Nurses: An unstoppable force

We’ve entered the third year of a global pandemic combined with increasing staff shortages, and nurses continue to demonstrate their fortitude, compassion, and professionalism. This year’s All Pro Nursing Team Award submissions proved that point. Over 40 teams shared their…

ANA partners with organizations to honor American Nurse Heroes

The American Nurses Association (ANA), Al Roker Entertainment, and HealthCom Media, publisher of American Nurse Journal, have joined forces to produce a network television and multi-channel event to celebrate the heroic work of nurses and the positive impact they have…

Turning and repositioning patients who are morbidly obese

Training, teamwork, and the right equipment can prevent pressure injuries. Takeaways:  Bariatric patients have a threefold risk of developing a pressure injury compared to those with a body mass index less than 40.  Though challenging, turning and repositioning bariatric patients…
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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…
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A year of finding center

Starting. Beginning. Renewing. It’s a New Year! What’s happening in your nursing practice that needs reflection? How do you “be your own nurse” in 2024? Throughout 2023, the world seemed different. Do you remember when you drove to work during…
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Sense of Duty

Immanuel Kant believed that no action was moral unless performed out of a sense of duty or obligation. Even the word duty suggests that one must follow a certain course of action. In my life duty to my family, profession…
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Person-centered care and dementia

Best practices for residents living in long-term care Takeaways: A growing body of evidence supports the idea that personhood and selfhood are not lost even in advanced dementia. Person-centered dementia care can significantly reduce behavioral disturbances, specifically aggression and agitation.…
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Innovation Conferences Nurses Should Attend

Conferences are a great place to learn new things, meet other people in your field, network, and amplify your work. They also can be a great place to meet people in other fields, depending on the conferences you attend. I…
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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.

Facing the challenge of masked communication

“Can you hear me now?” was the byline of a popular TV ad in the early 2000s for a cell phone company, promising excellent cellular connectivity for life! (Can you imagine?) These days, I am overhearing, with effort, a variation…
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Why some people are healthy, and others are not

What we know…and how long we’ve known it By Leah Curtin, RN, ScD(h), FAAN Why do some people stay healthy, while others get sick? Over the last 5 decades, it’s become alarmingly clear that the determinants of health are rooted…

Pediatric patients with chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

Anabelle*, a 6-year-old girl, has a history of medulloblastoma with leptomeningeal disease. After a total resection of the primary tumor, she experienced hydrocephalus, which required a shunt placement. Anabelle has completed 30 cycles of radiation therapy (RT) via protons.