Nurses who work in Emergency Rooms/Emergency Departments often deal with incredibly stressful situations on a regular basis. Angela Fennington, RN, CEN, works in the Emergency Department (ED) at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center (UM UCMC) in Bel […]
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Every day, Nancy Brook, MSN, RN, CFNP, sees breast cancer patients in an outpatient clinic at Stanford Healthcare. She says that most of her patients have metastatic breast cancer—cancer which has traveled to a site in the body beyond the
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Losing a patient is one of the most difficult things that a nurse experiences. No matter how hard they’ve worked and how many interventions they’ve done, sometimes patients will still die. And telling the families is even more difficult. Nurses
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Working for the tiniest and youngest of patients may be tough, but it also has its rewards. We spoke with Aileen E. Takeshita, RN, BSN, CCRN, Program Coordinator—Education/NICU at Adventist Health White Memorial, and she took time to answer our
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One of the many specialties in the nursing filed is nephrologyworking with kidney patients. Shamekia Gullatte, RN, BSN, CPN, the Lead Post Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Coordinator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has served as a nurse with many different
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Although Angela Warnke, RN, director of nursing at the Greenhouse Treatment Facility of the American Addiction Centers, now manages a team of nurses doing direct patient care, until about six months ago, she was a working manager, working directly with
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When dealing with patients, there are times in which nurses need to be their advocates. But have you ever thought about if the instance occurred when you had to act as your own advocate? Janetta Olaseni, RN, BA, HN-BC, CHC,
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People who teach those who come after them often do so because they want to give back or have a positive influence on upcoming students in the field. That’s exactly what Susan Zori, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, an assistant clinical professor
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Nurses choose the area of nursing they want to work in for many reasons. Sometimes, though, they choose the patients they want to treat because the disease affecting the patients also affected their family in some way. That’s exactly what
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Have you ever thought about changing career paths and teaching up-and-coming nurses? For those of you who have, we wanted to provide you with some information about what it’s like to teach, including the challenges and the benefits. Michelle DeCoux
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