You’ve been in nursing for a while, and you want to change it up—perhaps with a new hospital, a new job, or a new location. Maybe you’ve always wanted to travel across the country and see different cities and experience […]
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Following a proposed rule change from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to allow full practice authority to all VA advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) when acting within the scope of their VA employment, Fox News hosted a video report
If nothing else, becoming a patient in the health care system can be an unfamiliar and sometimes unsettling process. No matter how well you know the steps, trust the players, and value your experience, the unknown factors produce stress in
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Although countering moral distress involves various tactics, keeping your eye on a few key ones can be beneficial. 1. Prioritize professional growth. Whatever your career strategy you can never educate yourself too much about ethical issues and moral distress. The
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Kaplan University recently announced that two programs from its School of Nursing have received national accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program which began in 2013 has been granted initial accreditation
During her second day on the job, the newly minted RN was tending to a febrile patient in the ICU and preparing to give him a shot of insulin. Because the patient was thin, she pinched a fold of flesh
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Tanya Sudia, PhD, RN, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship, and Interim Graduate Program Director for the Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor University received an award for the Best Oral Presentation at the Sixth Annual Pan-Pacific Nursing
“I lost my prescription when I moved.” “I am allergic to everything except morphine.” “I’m out of my percocets and I can’t see my primary doctor until next month.” We hear these statements from patients every day in the emergency room
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A new Safe Staffing bill, A8580A, was passed by the NY Assembly on Tuesday night that requires every hospital and nursing home in the state adopt minimum staffing requirements and establish nurse-to-patient ratios in all nursing units. The bill also
Joshua McGill, a 26-year-old nursing student at Valencia College, was attempting to escape the chaos that ensued when a mass shooting broke at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. McGill was at the nightclub with his roommates when the sound of gunshots at
