Student nurses don’t need anyone to tell them their lives are busy. With school, work, families, and a personal life, many student nurses are juggling more than most people. Tamar Rodney, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CNE | PhD-c, is a Geneva […]
As part of National Nurses Week, Minority Nurse is exploring the many paths nurses take to find a career where they feel like they are making an impact. Irma Teune, BSN RN MSCN CCM is a bilingual clinical nurse educator
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A recent report by The Joint Commission has tackled the issue of workplace violence in healthcare organizations head on. The Sentinel Event Alert 59: Physical and verbal violence against health care workers gives hospitals and healthcare organizations guidelines to address
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Getting into nursing school is a huge achievement, but for many students, getting in is only the first step. Paying for nursing school is the next hurdle. When you look at your final financial aid package, there’s likely a bit
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Around the world, patients rely on transplant nurses to help them navigate the complicated path to a transplant. To honor the work these nurses do, the International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) established Transplant Nurses Day to be held annually on
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Today marks the annual celebration of Certified Nurses Day to let nurses know just how important additional training is for career growth and for patient care. Certified Nurses Day gives a shout out to nurses who take on the additional
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March is National Nutrition Month and offers up a good time to think of tweaking your diet. Nurses are especially prone to falling into an eating-on-the-run trap. With long shifts that barely offer time to sit, nurses rarely have the
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National Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 11 17) focuses attention squarely on one thing at the top of every nurse’s list keeping patients safe. Minority Nurse spoke with Patricia McGaffigan, RN, MS, CPPS, vice president, safety programs at the Institute for Healthcare
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It might seem ironic that the kickoff of the National Sleep Foundation’s Sleep Awareness Week starts with an hour less of precious shut eye. While Daylight Savings Time has most of us springing our clocks ahead one hour early in
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As Black History Month closes, Minority Nurse interviewed Martha Dawson, DNP, RN, FACHE, and assistant professor in the Nursing and Health Systems Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing (UABSON). Dawson is also director for the
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