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MNA President’s Message

Dear Maryland Nurses Association Members, Lou J. Bartolo, DNP, MSN, RN As we embrace the start of 2025, I am filled with profound optimism about our organization’s trajectory and the…

Promoting Nurse Retention Efforts Through A Statewide Partnership

Background Recruiting and retaining qualified staff is a priority issue in healthcare. Maryland hospitals are facing critical staffing shortages, with one in every four nurse positions vacant (Maryland Hospital Association…

Nurse Well-being & Moral Resilience

TALKING WITH THE EXPERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. CYNDA RUSHTON Jihane Frangieh: How do you define moral resilience, and how can it help nurses navigate ethical dilemmas and workplace stress?…

MNA Editorial | This is Not Part of the Job: Mitigating Healthcare Workplace Violence

Jihane Frangieh, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, CNE How many times have you heard about a workplace violence incident, whether verbal or physical against nurses that went unreported or unrecognized? How…

MNA and District Elections Process and Opportunities for 2025

A Report from the MNA Committee on Nominations (CON) Electing your association leaders at both the District and State levels of the organization is one of your fundamental rights in…

MNA District 9 Hosts Annual Fall Membership Dinner & CE Event

MNA District 9 had the honor of hosting Dr. Stephan Andrew Riddle, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN, Senior Director of Nursing Professional Development at MedStar Health System, for the annual fall…

Nurse Case Study: Failure to monitor high fall risk patient; failure to educate family on fall prevention

Nurse Medical Malpractice Case Study with Risk Management Strategies Presented by NSO and CNA This is sponsored content and is supplied by Nurses Service Organization. The content has been reviewed…

Talking with the Expert: An interview with Holly Carpenter, BSN, RN from Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation initiative

JF: Could you share a bit about your role as a senior health policy advisor and your involvement with Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation®? HC: Sure, I have been with ANA…

Enhancing Well-being Within Schools of Nursing: A Wellness Committee Pilot

The current state of health and well-being for nurses is cause for concern. Nurses experience high levels of workplace stress, which contributes to poor physical and mental health outcomes and…

Promoting Nursing Student Well-being: Integrating Self-Care Strategies into Maternity Course Assignments

Stress may be considered commonplace in the landscape of our lives today, still we cannot simply accept this as the norm when it is known that stress negatively impacts one’s…

MNA President’s Message

Dear Maryland Nurses Association Members, Lou J. Bartolo, DNP, MSN, RN As we embrace the start of 2025, I am filled with…

Promoting Nurse Retention Efforts Through A Statewide Partnership

Background Recruiting and retaining qualified staff is a priority issue in healthcare. Maryland hospitals are facing critical staffing shortages, with one in…

Nurse Well-being & Moral Resilience

TALKING WITH THE EXPERT: AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. CYNDA RUSHTON Jihane Frangieh: How do you define moral resilience, and how can it…

MNA Editorial | This is Not Part of the Job: Mitigating Healthcare Workplace Violence

Jihane Frangieh, PhD, MSN, BSN, RN, CNE How many times have you heard about a workplace violence incident, whether verbal or physical…

MNA and District Elections Process and Opportunities for 2025

A Report from the MNA Committee on Nominations (CON) Electing your association leaders at both the District and State levels of the…

MNA District 9 Hosts Annual Fall Membership Dinner & CE Event

MNA District 9 had the honor of hosting Dr. Stephan Andrew Riddle, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN, Senior Director of Nursing Professional Development…

Nurse Case Study: Failure to monitor high fall risk patient; failure to educate family on fall prevention

Nurse Medical Malpractice Case Study with Risk Management Strategies Presented by NSO and CNA This is sponsored content and is supplied by…

Talking with the Expert: An interview with Holly Carpenter, BSN, RN from Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation initiative

JF: Could you share a bit about your role as a senior health policy advisor and your involvement with Healthy Nurse, Healthy…

Enhancing Well-being Within Schools of Nursing: A Wellness Committee Pilot

The current state of health and well-being for nurses is cause for concern. Nurses experience high levels of workplace stress, which contributes…

Promoting Nursing Student Well-being: Integrating Self-Care Strategies into Maternity Course Assignments

Stress may be considered commonplace in the landscape of our lives today, still we cannot simply accept this as the norm when…

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PTSD: Increase screening and treatment

Many nurse practitioners (NPs) provide care in medically underserved areas, some in one of the more than 1,400 free clinics throughout the United States. More patients who access care at free clinics meet the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than those who receive care at fee-for-service clinics. Many of these patients face various challenges, including being immigrants or refugees, surviving human trafficking or domestic violence, and living unsheltered.

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Acute kidney injury: A quick diagnosis aids recovery

Some medications, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, can increase an individual’s risk for developing acute kidney injury.

Cannabis and healthcare: Complicated policies and laws

Marijuana as medical treatment continues to evolve. Pay attention to contradictory and evolving state and federal regulations to protect patients and your practice.

Women and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

Why are new HIV cases still occurring when we have preventive treatment? One reason could be a lack of knowledge and experience among healthcare professionals to discuss, prescribe, and manage PrEP for vulnerable patients. Lack of information and discomfort with prescribing PrEP remain ongoing issues among healthcare professionals in the United States. Healthcare professionals should know how to identify appropriate candidates for PrEP, provide general education, and prescribe necessary preventive treatment.

Empathy in ostomy care

Empathy relies on understanding an experience from another’s perspective. A simulated learning activity such as wearing an ostomy bag for a day,…

Nurse leader rounds plus

Patients’ perceptions of their care may not correlate to the actual quality of care given but rather their beliefs about what they…

Nurses’ role in skin cancer prevention

Skin cancer has reached epidemic proportions—one in five Americans will develop some form by age 70. Nurses have an opportunity to make…

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