Do you do not attach much significance to the question now asked while visiting your doctor or the hospital? It now becomes one of the questions that has assumed national prominence but also draws attention as to why another question […]
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Do you have a particular area of nursing you are passionate about? Maybe it’s time for you to carve some time out of your crazy busy schedule to get a specialty board certification. Obtaining a specialty certification can help your
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How do you answer when someone asks you, What do you do? Do you ever simply reply, I am a nurse. Doesn’t that feel like a skimpy way of describing your profession to someone who isn’t a fellow nurse? Nurses
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The Regis College Haiti Project (RCHP) is an international partnership between Regis College School of Nursing, Science, and Health Professions, the University of Haiti, and Haiti’s Ministry of Health. In February 2014, with completion of a three-year program, 12 nursing
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. —William Arthur Ward The role of the academic nurse educator is both rewarding and challenging. Furthermore, the nurse educator plays a pivotal role in
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Recently, I was taking a late-night walk with the dog and ran into my neighbor. She was just returning home from her shift as an emergency room nurse. Every time I see her she’s wearing scrubs (and I’m pretty sure
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For the second year in a row, we reached out to Minority Nurse readers about what they look for in a workplace—and how their current employers stack up. Unsurprisingly, salary and benefits once again topped the list of factors respondents
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Nursing is entering an era of great transformation that is driven by three major changes: an aging baby boomer population; the ongoing impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); and rising educational goals for the profession, including greater emphasis on
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It was an intentionally simple question the clinical nurse in the examining room heard. Lynn, I said, Have you ever been bullied? There came a pause. Then, she responded with a torrent of emotions reflecting anger and disappointment that took
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Sometimes the most compassionate care a nurse can give to a dying patient is to quiet the room. Cheryl Thaxton, RN, MN, CPNP, FNP-BC, CH-PPN, a nurse practitioner on the supportive and palliative care team at the Baylor Regional Medical
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