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How Can We Eliminate Gender Bias in Health Care?
No one enters the health care profession because they want to discriminate against their patients. You don’t sacrifice years of time and energy, tears and sweat, just to indulge your biases and serve your stereotypes. But the simple truth is that health care providers...
Improving Nurse Leadership Through Stewardship, Shared Governance, and Advocacy
The image of nursing has changed since the days of its founder, Florence Nightingale; however, the devotion is the same. Nursing as a profession, coupled with the men and women who make up its numbers, function as the first line of defense for their patients....
Nursing Side Gigs: Online Studies and Focus Groups
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a nurse who participates in online studies and focus groups. As his full-time job, Charles Prendergast, BSN, RN, works as a registered nurse in the...
Setting Career Goals for the New Year
People tend to think of the New Year as a time to ponder—about ourselves, our lives, and our careers. It’s also a great time to think about your personal career goals. While it may seem difficult during the pandemic to think about what’s next in your nursing career,...
Frontline Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Respect and Admiration
My wife, Sally, is an infusion nurse at Lurie Children’s Hospital and is now in her 43rd year on the front lines. She received the COVID-19 vaccine on January 2nd. I have been working from home as the NICU Quality Improvement neonatologist for Comer Children’s...
Still “Glad to be a Nurse” Despite Furloughs and Fears? A Look at Medscape’s 2020 Job Satisfaction Survey
The Medscape 2020 nurse job satisfaction survey dove into fears, PPE woes, and other highs and lows of life in the workplace during the pandemic. Medscape surveyed 10,400 nurses across all regions of the US and analyzed responses from 5130 RNs, 2002 NPs, 2000 LPNs,...
VA Seeks Innovators to Find Solutions to Tough Health Care Challenges
If you like innovation, you’ll love working at VA. We have adopted and continually promote a culture of innovation among our team. One of the ways we do this is by encouraging employee-developed and implemented innovations and promising practices that lead to better...
Your Future in the Nursing Job Market: What to Expect, How to Keep Pace
Healthcare is rapidly changing before our eyes. In the age of COVID-19, we have seen the rise in the use of technology to render primary care visits, participate in physician consults, perform basic patient intake assessments, and schedule surgical procedures....
NBNA Launches RETHINK and RE:SET Vaccine Awareness and Mental Health Resources for Black Nurses
The National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) has rolled out two major health campaigns for Black nurses under the auspices of their new wellness initiative, NBNA Resilient Nurse Resource™. The first campaign, RETHINK, launched on December 7, urges Black nurses to...
Fellows Program Offers Post-Grads Path to a VA Career
Are you ready to launch a career with your advanced degree? Are you interested in public leadership and helping Veterans? If you answered yes to these questions, take a look at VA’s prestigious Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program. We use the PMF program...
When a Patient Has a Service Dog
Although it may not happen often, there could be times when a patient comes into your department at the hospital or the health care office you work in, and they have a service dog. Would you know what to do? Do you acknowledge the dog or not? If it’s an emergency...
VA Adds Tens of Thousands of New Jobs, Remote Options
Even during challenging economic times, VA has added to its workforce and is poised to continue growing, according to Jessica Bonjorni, chief officer of human capital management at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Bonjorni recently joined Mike Owens, VHA...
Vaccinating a Nation: a Guide to Achieving Herd Immunity
Flu season is here, and the media is filled with news about the new Covid vaccines, so this is a good time to have a sort of primer explaining the profound importance of vaccination for communities as well as individuals. [email protected], the online MSN program...
Interview with TNA’s Cindy Zolnierek: Part Two
In Part Two of the DailyNurse interview with Texas Nursing Association (TNA) CEO Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE, we discuss the importance of including a nursing perspective when forming healthcare policies and the TNA’s goals for the coming year. (Click here to read...
Nurse of the Week Anna Slayton Spent 77 Days as a COVID-19 Relief Nurse in NYC
Anna Slayton, BSN, RN-BC Photo courtesy of Walden University Many stories about frontline workers have come out since COVID-19 began. But Anna Slayton’s story as a relief nurse is quite different. Slayton, BSN, RN-BC, works as a registered nurse with two hospital...
Herzing University to Open New Tampa Campus
As the pandemic highlights the nation's nursing shortage, new schools are opening in an attempt to close the gap. One new educational opportunity for aspiring BSNs and LPNs in 2021 is the Herzing University Tampa campus. To learn more about Herzing University's essay...
Attending Nursing School During COVID-19
Since March, COVID-19 has been affecting our lives in ways we couldn’t have imagined just one year ago. Between quarantines, wearing masks, using hand sanitizer, and the like, our lives have been completely changed. Imagine what it's like to attend nursing school...
Soap-ology: Quick Facts About Soap and How it Protects You from Infection
Take plain liquid soap, and apply in a dime-sized drop on your hands; rub with water over palms, fingers, and up to one’s elbows for at least 20 seconds, then rinse thoroughly with clean water. It lacks the dramatically biting, corrosive, “ah, we’re killing germs!”...
Managing Your Finances in the Covid Era: A Guide for CRNAs
The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives and livelihoods of individuals and institutions around the world. The cumulative civic and social costs have been devastating, exacerbated by the economic ramifications of a worldwide recession and...
Caring for Incontinent Patients: A Brief Guide
Roughly 13 million Americans are affected by incontinence, with elderly patients as the leading demographic. Also known as the loss of bladder control, urinary incontinence can be stressful and embarrassing for patients. November is National Caregiver Awareness month,...