Besides making sure that patients have everything they need to heal, nurses also have to ensure that their patients are safe. Sharon Roth Maguire, MS, RN, GNP-BC, Chief Clinical Quality Officer at BrightStar Care, has an extensive health care background with more […]
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As nurses, and even nursing students, we all know how difficult it can be to balance eating at work. It should be easy to eat, right? You may be a nurse if you relate to any of the following: What’s
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Heather M. Young, founding dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis, has announced plans to step down from her leadership position to pursue a research role at the school. After leaving the
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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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In an effort to find ways to minimize racial and cultural barriers in health care, a study published in the journal Creative Nursing explored the practice of storytelling to create a better understanding between cultures. Storytelling between nurse and patient
Insights from the new Nurse Practitioner Claim Report: 4th Edition from CNA and Nurses Service Organization (NSO) show that the majority of claims against nurse practitioners developed from a failure involving core competencies, such as diagnosis, medication prescribing, or treatment
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Keeping nurses committed and satisfied with their jobs can be challenging in the face of a nurse shortage. It’s up to the nurse leader to provide a work environment that fosters passion and positivity for registered nurses. As crucial as
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Our Nurse of the Week is Pamela Assid, registered nurse and director of emergency services at Sky Ridge Medical Center, who donated a portion of her liver to a young girl with a rare disease. As a nurse, Assid has
Students from the Indiana University School of Dentistry and School of Nursing are learning clinical skills together in a new experiential interprofessional education and practice program. The program was developed in response to dentists and nurse practitioners being asked to
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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