Is this quality improvement or research?
Imagine you’re a nurse working in the emergency department (ED) of a small hospital who wants to reduce medication errors in your department. You…
Practice Matters
What nurses owe one another
With all the concern about ethics today, little attention is paid to the way healthcare professionals treat one another. Nonetheless, the ethics of a…
Improving posthospital medication management for chronically ill older adults
For chronically ill older adults who take multiple medications, a hospital stay can result in various medication-related changes. Nurses administer their medications to them.…
Difficult and frustrating? Caring for those with chronic and complex conditions
Caring for people with chronic and complex health needs has become an ever-larger part of everyday nursing. The World Health Organization has identified common…
Was this error, fraud—or deliberate retaliation?
Nurse Jennifer Robbins* was fired—just like that—and after many years of excellent performance reviews. Why? Allegedly she falsified patient records when she failed to…
Huddle up for patient safety
You have received report on your patients and are starting your shift on a busy medical-surgical unit. To help control your workflow and manage…
Refining stool consistency descriptors can help prevent adverse outcomes
Stool consistency and form are significant aspects of a GI assessment, providing valuable information about the patient’s bowel motility. Properly identifying and describing these…
Knowing you can make it
They were the darkest days of World War II. Ships—even those sailing far to the north, above the Arctic Circle—were being sunk with disastrous…
Using your GIFTS to protect your nursing license
My new client, Karen, sits across from me, looking scared. She cries as she tells me the state nursing board has received a complaint…
‘PAWSitive’ interventions ease ‘rrrf’ times in pediatrics
Daniel, a 5-year-old child with asthma, is anxious and doesn’t want to keep his oxygen mask on during his much-needed nebulizer treatment. Teary eyed,…
What works: Physician and nurse rounding improves patient satisfaction
In 2013, a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) included the concept of value-based purchasing, a payment method…
A model for ethical decision-making in management
Pam Cipriano, president of the American Nurses Association, said In November 2014 that nurses must know how to make ethical decisions. Indeed! And this…
Is this quality improvement or research?
Imagine you’re a nurse working in the emergency department (ED) of a small hospital who wants to reduce medication errors in your…
What nurses owe one another
With all the concern about ethics today, little attention is paid to the way healthcare professionals treat one another. Nonetheless, the ethics…
Improving posthospital medication management for chronically ill older adults
For chronically ill older adults who take multiple medications, a hospital stay can result in various medication-related changes. Nurses administer their medications…
Difficult and frustrating? Caring for those with chronic and complex conditions
Caring for people with chronic and complex health needs has become an ever-larger part of everyday nursing. The World Health Organization has…
Was this error, fraud—or deliberate retaliation?
Nurse Jennifer Robbins* was fired—just like that—and after many years of excellent performance reviews. Why? Allegedly she falsified patient records when she…
Huddle up for patient safety
You have received report on your patients and are starting your shift on a busy medical-surgical unit. To help control your workflow…
Refining stool consistency descriptors can help prevent adverse outcomes
Stool consistency and form are significant aspects of a GI assessment, providing valuable information about the patient’s bowel motility. Properly identifying and…
Knowing you can make it
They were the darkest days of World War II. Ships—even those sailing far to the north, above the Arctic Circle—were being sunk…
Using your GIFTS to protect your nursing license
My new client, Karen, sits across from me, looking scared. She cries as she tells me the state nursing board has received…
‘PAWSitive’ interventions ease ‘rrrf’ times in pediatrics
Daniel, a 5-year-old child with asthma, is anxious and doesn’t want to keep his oxygen mask on during his much-needed nebulizer treatment.…
What works: Physician and nurse rounding improves patient satisfaction
In 2013, a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) included the concept of value-based purchasing, a…
A model for ethical decision-making in management
Pam Cipriano, president of the American Nurses Association, said In November 2014 that nurses must know how to make ethical decisions. Indeed!…
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