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When breathing is a burden: How to help patients with COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has an insidious onset and causes disabling symptoms. This article discusses its risk factors, pathophysiology, assessment, interventions, and nursing…
Patient-centeredness as algorithm
Patient-centeredness is a process that must be owned by all, from top to bottom.
Puzzling over family presence: Word search at the bedside
The patient’s family makes an initial judgment about a nurse within 60 seconds—so your first words are crucial. Find out how to make every…
How to recognize and intervene for hyperosmolar hyperglycemic syndrome
For some people, this crisis is the first inkling that they have type 2 diabetes. The condition is fatal in up to 20% of…
Readers Respond
More on civility I have rarely responded with a note to the editor, but just want to thank you for the excellent article in…
Jump into action against aspiration pneumonia
The author covers how to recognize and treat this serious complication.
Care of clinical trial participants: What nurses need to know
The third in a series of articles on clinical trials from nurses at the National Cancer Institute.
ANA pays it forward
I am an organizational junkie with no apologies. As many of you know, I started my political activism in nursing when I served as…
When closeness breeds cruelty: Helping victims of intimate partner violence
We may not realize it, but most nurses have frequent contact with domestic abuse victims. Shame and fear of reprisal keep many victims from…
Tripping over the welcome mat: Why new nurses don’t stay and what the evidence says we can do about it
The author discusses this issue and provides strategies for retaining new grads.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: New hope for patients with aortic stenosis
This new aortic stenosis treatment avoids the sternotomy, aortotomy, and cardiopulmonary bypass of traditional valve replacement
When breathing is a burden: How to help patients with COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has an insidious onset and causes disabling symptoms. This article discusses its risk factors, pathophysiology, assessment, interventions,…
Patient-centeredness as algorithm
Patient-centeredness is a process that must be owned by all, from top to bottom.
Puzzling over family presence: Word search at the bedside
The patient’s family makes an initial judgment about a nurse within 60 seconds—so your first words are crucial. Find out how to…
How to recognize and intervene for hyperosmolar hyperglycemic syndrome
For some people, this crisis is the first inkling that they have type 2 diabetes. The condition is fatal in up to…
Readers Respond
More on civility I have rarely responded with a note to the editor, but just want to thank you for the excellent…
Jump into action against aspiration pneumonia
The author covers how to recognize and treat this serious complication.
Care of clinical trial participants: What nurses need to know
The third in a series of articles on clinical trials from nurses at the National Cancer Institute.
ANA pays it forward
I am an organizational junkie with no apologies. As many of you know, I started my political activism in nursing when I…
When closeness breeds cruelty: Helping victims of intimate partner violence
We may not realize it, but most nurses have frequent contact with domestic abuse victims. Shame and fear of reprisal keep many…
Tripping over the welcome mat: Why new nurses don’t stay and what the evidence says we can do about it
The author discusses this issue and provides strategies for retaining new grads.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: New hope for patients with aortic stenosis
This new aortic stenosis treatment avoids the sternotomy, aortotomy, and cardiopulmonary bypass of traditional valve replacement
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