However savvy you are in defusing stress between patient and family, you want to be just as smart in caring for yourself. No matter what anxieties people around you have unleashed throughout the day, being concerned about your emotional and […]
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The ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius, pretty much summed up the goal of a happy professional life when he mused: “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” A stellar goal, but
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If you are a nurse you’ve likely experienced stress now and again. Long hours, sicker patients, staffing issues, and other specifics tied to the job can torpedo the joy of doing it. But what happens when families of your patients
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As a young girl in New Dehli, India, Harpreet Gujral, MSN, FNP-BC, INC, grew up knowing medical practitioners of all stripes. Depending on the illness, her parents took her to a conventional medicine physician, a homeopathic doctor, and even an
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Karen Bankston, PhD, MSN, FACHE, didn’t have management in her career sights when she started as a fledgling emergency room nurse in 1976 at then-Southside Hospital in Youngtown, Ohio. She wasn’t thinking much beyond giving the best care possible to
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When Felicia Menefee, RN, NP, ACNS, recruited patients for the landmark African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT), little did she know that the study would yield such positive results for themor future patients. Since African Americans with advanced left ventricular heart
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