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Living donor liver transplant coordinator

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Read alert: The decline of reading

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Education can be the key to professional success. Whether you’re a new or experienced nurse, returning to school to get your BSN or another advanced degree can make the difference between thriving and stagnating in your career. Tap into the articles presented in this year’s education guide for tips and thoughtful advice on nursing education. The American Nurse Education and Career Guide, provides you with facts, figures, other nurses’ experiences, and tons of other resources to help you in your journey.

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Make best practices today’s common practices. In 2022, Schoberer and colleagues conducted a comprehensive review of fall and injury prevention research. The…

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Understanding the meaning of professionalism and how a nurse’s professional identity is formed gives rise to critical analysis of the definition and…

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Magnet4Europe: Taking the next steps

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How a nurse’s concern translates into a patient’s outcome

How a nurse’s concern translates into a patient’s outcomes In 2022, the American Nurses Foundation Reimagining Nursing Initiative (RN Initiative) awarded $14…

Palliative care vs hospice

An 84-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and hypertension) has been hospitalized twice in the…

The role of hospital-based nurse scientists

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How history informs Code of Ethics revisions

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Reflections: My first year as a Magnet® Program Director

After several years in various formal leadership roles in and out of nursing, I realized I needed to get back to a…

Collective wisdom

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Self-compassion in practice

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Stevens-Johnson syndrome

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Syncope

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Decompression sickness

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Acute angle-closure glaucoma

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The Fundamentals of Care Framework

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Hypnosis and pain

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The power of language

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Taking on health disparities

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How history informs Code of Ethics revisions

I’m looking forward to the 2025 revision of the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (the Code). How will the history of…

Reframing difficult

My nursing unit has a frequent flyer who’s difficult to care for. We’re all weary of providing care for this patient and are at…

How rituals support nursing teams

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When laws and nursing ethics collide

I live in a state that restricts access to certain healthcare services, and in some cases requires me to report things that will compromise…

Competent care during pregnancy loss

I experienced an extremely traumatic miscarriage, which was directly affected by rude and incompetent nurses and other healthcare staff. After I began sharing my…

Nurse safety in the era of open notes

Patients now have access to clinical notes that show the full names of staff members involved in their care. Considering the level of violence…

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Reframing difficult

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Community

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Everyday tasks as a link to critical thinking

Nursing’s future: The door has opened but are we prepared to enter?

As the world around us changes, the demographics and health care needs of the population are evolving and costs continue to escalate…

Does higher education lure nurses away from the bedside?

June’s guest, Donna Cardillo, MA, RN looks at higher education and whether it lures nurses away from the bedside. There is a…

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived

Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing

States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived

For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A…

Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing

For nearly 200 years, Florence Nightingale’s name has been synonymous with gentle compassion and mercy. In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps…

My Nurse Influencer

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Environmental wellness and nurse self-care

More and more we hear about how the environment must be included in how we care for ourselves. Perhaps thinking about the environment has…

Increase your knowledge of health policy: Practical strategies

Nurses are at the frontline of patient care, playing a crucial role in promoting health and well-being. Given your frontrow view of the intricacies…

The anxious nurse

No one responded to the new nurse’s comment as she returned from answering the patient’s call light. “I don’t know why they can’t just…

Things I wish I’d known as a new nurse

As I reflect on the many peaks and valleys of my nursing career, I frequently think about the early days and the lessons I’ve…

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Mental Health

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Critical Care

Acute pain management in the trauma patient on chronic opiate therapy

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Families and post-intensive care syndrome

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Pediatrics

Take Note – June 2009

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Cardiology

Enhancing patient outcomes with sequential compression device therapy

Use sequential compression devices effectively to help achieve the best possible outcomes for patients.

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