For years, business leaders have relied on the guidance and support of career coaches to help them advance in their professions and to achieve clear personal goals as well. But nurses traditionally haven’t used coaches in the same way. All […]
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Stereotypes of school nurses primarily dispensing aspirin, taking temperatures, and offering hugs are rooted in nostalgia. These days, school nurses increasingly handle a growing number of students with chronic or serious health issues, provide emergency care, and connect with community
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What is diversity? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is the condition of being diverse, different, or varied; difference, unlikeness. This simplistic definition of diversity does not assign any judgment or negative connotation to any of the words used
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She didn’t know her words would haunt me for years to come. It was a night like any other night. I stood at the bedside of a relatively stable patient, and I was dutifully giving him his meds. The floor
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In this essay, I present my firsthand account of my experience as an African American nursing student in a predominantly nonminority nursing program as well as my perceptions and interactions with fellow students. As an autoethnographer, I sought to answer
Increasingly, nursing students are being introduced to health policy and are encouraged to play an active role in some aspects of the policymaking process. Yes, I know, so much to do and so little time! However, opportunities to enhance one’s
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Nursing has long hailed holistic care as its cornerstone. If one thinks of giving holistic care, then the focus needs to be not only on physical care, but also on emotional, social, and spiritual care. Yet, the spiritual dimension of
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Two years after reports were first published informing the nation that veterans were waiting too long for health care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), over 530,000 veterans are still waiting 30 days or longer for care. To improve veterans
When Dr. Scharmaine Baker started the Nola the Nurse book series, she knew kids needed information about advanced practice nurses and a role model to show them all about it. What Baker, DNP, didn’t expect was the impact the character
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One of the most common but preventable hospital-acquired infections is a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), also known as a catheter-related bloodstream infection. There are approximately 250,000 cases annually in hospitals across the country, including 80,000 in intensive care units
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