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How Can Nurses Elevate the Profession?
We as nurses want to see our profession thrive and be prepared for the future. We as individuals can take actions that will lead to advancements in nursing as a whole. These steps on their own may not seem like much, but the following can lead to long-term change and...
DN Interviews Oncology Nurse Diane Paul, Founder of the Cancer Hope Network
Oncology nurse Diane Byrnes Paul founded the Cancer Hope Network (CHN) in 1981. CHN is a non-profit organization that provides free one-on-one emotional peer support to adult cancer patients and their loved ones. The Support Volunteers are all cancer survivors who are...
Nursing Side Gigs: Jax Nurses Buy Houses
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight Jax Nurses Buy Houses (JNBH). More than 10 years ago, when they were still in nursing school, Chris McDermott, MSN, APRN, AGNP-C and Joshua...
Better Communication for Nurses
What does effective communication mean to you? All individuals have their own natural ways of communicating that stem back to culture, past experiences, and background. How one culture communicates may seem very different to another. Health care melds together...
5 Ways VA Employees Have Changed Veterans’ Lives
Ask most of our employees why they work at VA. Their top reason is often the same: they want to improve the lives of Veterans. When you work at VA, there are so many ways that you can make a difference. Whether it’s working on cutting edge research that improves their...
How the VA Encourages Providers to Care for Their Own Mental Health
It’s been a tough year, particularly for those on the frontlines of health care. At VA, we encourage you to make your mental health a priority, just as we do for the Veterans in our care. Federal workplaces like VA have always fully supported employees in...
Nurturing Nurses: Prioritizing the Mental Health of Nurses as COVID Cases Rise
When you decided to become a nurse, you knew it wouldn’t be easy. You knew there would be hard days, probably many of them. You were prepared for brutal shifts. You expected to have your heart broken sometimes. But you probably never expected anything like COVID-19....
Mental Health Care for Minorities
While COVID-19 continues to infect people throughout the United States, stress levels seem to be increasing as well, especially for minorities. Unfortunately, people of color (POC) don’t often get the mental health care that they need. Aiyana Ma’at, founder of...
SC Grants Graduate Nurses Temp Permission to Practice
To cope with diminishing resources during the state’s spike in COVID cases, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the State Board of Nursing have issued a temporary order permitting graduate nurses to treat patients during the crisis....
Graduate Nurses and Imposter Syndrome
We’ve all been experienced it: maybe new graduates are experiencing it right now…it’s the first day on the job with our freshly minted nursing degree and “what in the world am I doing here?!” is running through your head. Despite studying diligently to pass those...
Telehealth Ramps Up, Connects Providers and Patients
There’s no doubt about it — VA will set an agency record for telehealth care in 2020. Veterans attend about 25,000 telehealth video appointments each day, a 1,000% increase from 2019. VA already surpassed last year’s number of telehealth encounters by 7...
Virtual Visits from UCI Nursing Students Provide IRL Comfort
Students at the University of California Irvine Gross School of Nursing made good use of their downtime by paying virtual visits to non-COVID patients at the UCI Medical Center. Between May 4 and their June 13 commencement, 45 iPad-wielding undergrads and graduates...
Lateral Violence in Nursing – What It Is and How You Can Cope
Any nurse who’s been around for more than a minute has heard the intimidating phrase, nurses eat their young. It’s hard to imagine how this phrase could become so popular within a profession that’s known for being caring and selfless. Yet, many nurses both new and...
Getting Nurses to Stay: The Retention Challenge
What progress have we made in increasing nurse retention within the nation? This topic has been widely researched for many years globally. “Nurses” can be adult nurses who have been in the profession for many years or new graduate nurses. According to a study by...
Survey: Nurse Practitioners on the Frontlines during COVID-19
When it comes to caring for patients suffering from COVID-19, nurse practitioners (NPs), as you might expect, are making a major contribution. Some 61% of NPs are treating patients who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to a recent survey from the American...
Iona College to Launch New BSN Program this Fall
To help meet the growing demand for RNs, Iona College in New York is about to join the ranks of schools offering a BSN program. This fall, Iona will provide students with two routes to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree: one option is to embark on a...
VA Paid Residency Helps Nurse Enter Rewarding Career
Jessica Crabtree knew she wanted to do work that mattered. The first step was going back to school to pursue a nursing degree at age 28. The next step was a little more up in the air. Then, as she entered her fourth semester of nursing school, she was intrigued by...
COVID-19: Dialysis Patients at Risk
As COVID-19 continues to sweep through the nation, researchers are realizing what groups of people are especially affected by it and are more susceptible to it, such as dialysis patients. Maya N. Clark-Cutaia, PhD, ACNP-BC, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing and...
BCEN White Paper: Certification Can Improve Patient Outcomes, Job Satisfaction, Salary
The benefits of certification can include “greater career success and satisfaction including higher pay, greater opportunity for advancement, and higher employability as well as higher self-efficacy,” according to a report by the Board of Certification for Emergency...
Nursing Side Gigs: Working as a Photographer
This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a photographer. Boxter and her familyCredit: MB Photography By day, Shannon Lynn Boxter, RN, works as a travel nurse at Duke University Medical...