August 2024 Vol. 19 No. 8

2024 Collaborative Care Grant announced

Awardees seek to improve outcomes for prospective kidney transplant recipients. The American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) recently announced the recipients of the 2024 Collaborative Care Grant for Nurses…

ANA Enterprise News, August 2024

ANA president named to Most Influential Clinical Executives list, ANA reimbursement policy recommendations included in advisory group report, and Defining the economic value of nursing This article is…

Decompression sickness

Kachina Montgomery, a 27-year-old woman, is spending her honeymoon in Florida learning to scuba dive. About an hour after her last dive, she develops severe right shoulder pain…

Hypnosis and pain

To combat the opioid epidemic, the ANA encourages alternative approaches to treating pain, such as increasing prescriber training, improving access to treatment, and exploring other pain management options.…

Leadership in changing times

New scope and standards of practice reflect post-pandemic realities The U.S. healthcare system has changed profoundly over the past decade, and the skills, competencies, and knowledge nursing leaders…

Measuring nurses’ health

HNHN introduces an improved HealthyNurse® survey. The health of nurses has been a long-standing priority of the American Nurses Association (ANA), well before the pandemic pushed the issue…

Mentorship: A strategy for nursing retention

The limited pool of qualified nursing staff readily available to provide safe, quality care taxes the human capital management of healthcare organizations worldwide. To maintain an adequate workforce…

Personal and profound

Q&A series highlights experiences and insights involving racism in nursing. Established in 2021, the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing examines the issue of racism within nursing…

Promoting health literacy

Effective patient education must include assessment, planning, implementation, and education; skipping one of these components puts the patient at risk for suboptimal education. Healthcare professionals frequently focus on…

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 our wits’ end. How…

Skin integrity and steroid medications

Clinicians frequently mistake moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) for early-stage hospital-acquired pressure injury. MASD and PI require distinctly different treatments, which makes accurate identification crucial. In addition, the Centers…

Strategic humility

When preparing content for an upcoming webinar on fall prevention, I realized that I needed to be humble about admitting that common processes in place today need to…

The Fundamentals of Care Framework

If we define nursing as the science and art of promoting positive human responses to health and illness, at the core of our profession sits the ability to…

Valuing nursing

Groundbreaking and crucial work led by the ANA Enterprise Institute for Nursing Research and Quality Management will have a profound impact on how nurses are viewed in our…

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