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Climate Change Awareness: The Role of Health Providers
The effects of climate change call for the many roles that medical providers take on: first responder to disaster, risk educator of patients and public, and — in an almost exact reenactment of Florence Nightingale’s work — defender of clean water, nutritious food, and sanitation.
Preventing Falls: A Crucial Skill
Helping to prevent patient falls is absolutely crucial, as one simple fall can cause so many problems—everything from broken hips to traumatic brain injury. Michele L. Kimball, RN, BSN, Senior Director of Nursing at Bethesda Dilworth, knows why it’s so important to...
Nurse-Entrepreneur Brings Essential Oils into US Hospitals
For nurses, therapeutic inhaled essential oils (TIEO) provide a welcome solution; there is no need to get a doctor’s order, administer a pill, insert an IV or monitor for drug interactions. Because it is a designated nursing intervention and not a drug, essential oil...
Making the Holidays Fun for Nurses
Managers and any other health care staff who are supervising nurses—whether it’s in a hospital/medical center, an urgent care, or even at a private physician’s office—should know that holidays can be tough for your employees. Anytime your staff is working on or around...
Workplace Violence Prevention Bill for Health Providers Passes in House
On November 21, the US House of Representatives passed the Workplace Violence (WPV) Prevention for Health Care and Social Services Act of 2019 (the bill now moves to the Senate). Strongly supported by the Emergency Nurses Association, the bill now moves to the Senate...
Nurses: What is Your Pet Peeve About Doctors?
https://youtu.be/j578QSlhlnw Doctors and nurses work together to provide patients the best care. But you know that everyone has a pet peeve. In this six-minute video, new medical resident Siobhan Deshauer, MD talks with nurses about how physicians get on their nerves....
Participating in Interprofessional Education: Why It’s Important for Nursing Students, Part 2
Nursing students' education should never occur in a vacuum. Because most nurses will work not only with patients throughout their careers, but also with varied health care professionals, it’s important for them to learn how to work with others even before they begin...
“What is it like to be a Correctional Nurse?” —The DailyNurse Podcast
Part Three of a Three-Part Series Sherry Cameron, a medical recruiter for correctional facilities across the US, recently wrote a post for DailyNurse as the first part in this Three-part series. (For part Two, see What to Expect as a Correctional Care Nurse). Now,...
Nursing Side Gigs: Raising Puppies for Canine Companions for Independence
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a volunteer puppy raiser. In 2017, Catherine Burger, BSN, MSOL, RN, NEA-BC, now a Media & Brand Specialist for RegisteredNursing.org, was in the...
Participating in Interprofessional Education: Why It’s Important for Nursing Students, Part 1
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing has been offering interprofessional education experiences for its nursing students since 2006. To explain how it works and why it’s essential for nursing education, we interviewed Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, FAAN, the Ursula Springer...
From Forensics to Advocacy: What it’s Like to be a SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner)
When people experience sexual assault, they may sustain more than just physical injuries; trauma also affects short- and long-term mental health. The medical treatment needed may require a provider to examine parts of the body that were recently violated, which can...
Anti-Vaxx: a Sane Perspective on a Crazy World
The anti-vaccination (“anti-vaxx”) movement is a global phenomenon that has received a great deal of press, but how much do we really know about it? How do educated adults come to turn against medicines that have been saving literally millions of lives since the early...
What to Expect as a Correctional Care Nurse
Part Two of a Three-Part Series With more than 2.1 million adults incarcerated in America’s prisons and jails, (PDF, 543 KB), there is a great need for correctional care providers to support this underserved population. Many people taken into custody are experiencing...
Remote Telemetry Monitoring: Supporting Clinical Care and Clinical Leaders with a Simplified Operating Model
Telemetry is widely-used by hospitals and health systems as a means of providing continuous cardiac monitoring for designated patients. While internal development of these programs has been the norm, the ongoing management of these internal programs has absorbed...
Breaking IN to Correctional Healthcare
Part One of a Three-Part Series A career in correctional nursing could challenge your preconceptions. When asked by others about my career, I typically respond by stating that I am a medical recruiter for correctional and detention facilities. After the initial...
Working as a Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse
The nursing field is filled with various specialties. And that’s a good thing, as while working in emergency would be too stressful for one nurse, it is the perfect fit for another. Cara J. Szeglin, BSN, RN, CPEN, a Clinical Ladder III Staff Nurse at...
Shared Decision Making Q&A
Shared Decision Making (SDM) is a client-centered health care model in which clients are active participants in their own medical care and their own health.1,2 With the support of the health care provider (HCP), who gives adequate and accurate information when...
Maximize Your Income as a Travel Nurse: Useful Tips
My first experience looking for a job as a nurse and attempting to understand compensation variability within the profession was both intimidating and stressful. After graduating from one of the best undergraduate nursing programs in the country, gaining clinical...
5 Characteristics A Nurse Entrepreneur Should Have
Have you noticed that nurse practitioners are becoming more common in this country? We are providing patients with essential medical services. We, as nurse practitioners, are able to offer diagnostic and treatment services for a wide range of illnesses. While many...
Nursing Side Gigs: Boxing Coach
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a boxing coach. By day, Cindy Bohmont, RN, SEN, Med, CCRN, CSD, works as a staff nurse in the Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Mercy...
