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Nurse of the Week: SUNY Delhi Nursing Student Keara Lawson Treats Crash Victim On Way to Clinical Rotations
Our Nurse of the Week is Keara Lawson, a nursing student at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Delhi who was driving from Delhi to Stamford for her clinical placement when she witnessed an accident and stopped to help the crash victim. The quick-thinking...
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Have You Thanked Your Socks Today?
At this time of year many nurses are wondering how to enter the busy holiday season with more intention and ease. They want to remember the important things about Thanksgiving and bounty and blessings, say, but in the midst of Black Friday madness? Those “gotta get it...
Family Caregivers Celebrated This Month
This month we celebrate family caregivers. The 2018 theme for National Family Caregivers Month is Supercharge Your Caregiving. President Clinton signed the first Presidential Proclamation in 1997 and every president since that time has followed his lead by issuing an...
Year-End Goals Round-Up
The holiday season has almost started and there are less than two months left in 2018. This is the time of year when we can get reflective because it’s always surprising how quickly time passes. It seems like only yesterday when we were all formulating our New Year’s...
75th Anniversary of Hartwick Nursing Program Celebrated with Educational Symposium
Hartwick College recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of their nursing program with a day-long symposium on the future of nursing. Several seminars and sessions were offered, covering holistic caring, pediatric mental health, innovation, and the future of...
Safety First: Nurses’ Role in Helping to Dispose of Medical Waste
While working in health care facilities, nurses are used to disposing of medical waste. It’s a part of the job. There are ways, though, to help with this in your communities as well. We interviewed Maricha Ellis, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Operations...
Avoiding Retraumatization: Why You Shouldn’t “Friend” Your Patients on Social Media
Burnout and compassion fatigue can be found as a topic in numerous publications and hospitals are beginning to look at strategies for individual nurses to recognize burnout and compassion fatigue. The nursing profession requires a great deal of empathetic work from...
Movember: Help Change the Face of Men’s Health
Have you heard about the annual health event called Movember (“Moustache” plus “November”)? Men pledge to grow the facial hair above their upper lips and to get donations from their friends, family, and coworkers to fund efforts to address the men’s health crisis. In...
Research of the Week: Duties to Self – The Nurse as a Person of Dignity and Worth
This week we’re featuring Duties to Self: The Nurse as a Person of Dignity and Worth, from Creative Nursing. Author Marsha Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, explained how the shift in nursing education has informed current nurses how to take care of themselves while...
Self-Care is Not Selfish
It’s a fact: Nurses are caretakers, but do they take care of themselves? Nope. That’s probably why we see the high numbers of nurses with depression, anxiety, burnout, and fatigue. Ultimately, that leads them to leave the bedside or the nursing profession altogether....
What it’s Like Working in Orthopaedic Oncology
Patty Piasecki, NP, is an orthopaedic oncology nurse at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. In the past, she worked as an orthopaedic trauma nurse. In that position, she says, “trauma” made it sound like she worked in the TV show ER, but in reality, it means longer...
Seven Reasons Why Nurses Love Their Jobs
The beauty of nursing is that no two career paths are going to be exactly the same, which is why we get such a variety of responses whenever we ask nurses why they love being a nurse. If you're feeling a bit burned out in your current role or maybe just need some...
Alumnus Donates to St. Cloud State University Department of Nursing Science
The St. Cloud State University Department of Nursing Science recently received a $1 million gift from Jim Maciej, a former student, earlier this month. The gift will be put toward providing the latest technology for students, like nursing-simulation labs and related...
Election Day in the Year of Advocacy
As you may know, the American Nurses Association (ANA) designated 2018 as the “Year of Advocacy.” These past 10 months, they’ve encouraged nurses to influence and bring about change at the bedside and beyond by engaging in “moments of everyday advocacy.” As Election...
Research of the Week: Resisting the Slow Undoing of Human Rights
This week we’re featuring Resisting the Slow Undoing of Human Rights, a Nursing Knowledge Activities column from the journal Research and Theory for Nursing Practice. Author Debra R. Hanna, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, provided some insight as to how she prepared this column to...
7 Foods that Lower Your Stress Levels
Nurses, on a daily basis, deal with various levels of stress both internal and external in caring for their patients and family members. Stressful events can cause our cortisol (stress hormone) levels to rise. Elevated cortisol levels increase weight gain, blood...
The Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Grand Challenge: Post Op
In August, we covered the 60-day nutrition pilot program Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Grand Challenge (HNHN), that is designed to help nurses eat better and improve their eating habits with healthier food options. At three of its locations, the Medical University of...
Chamberlain Nursing Students Treat Patients in Kenya
Chamberlain University College of Nursing students recently completed a two-week trip to Kenya as part of the Global Health Education Program. The program, which has been in existence for 23 years, provides Chamberlain nursing students the opportunity to put their...
New Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Vanderbilt School of Nursing
Earlier this fall, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing named Rolanda Johnson, PhD, MSN, as the new assistant dean for diversity and inclusion. Replacing assistant professor Jana Lauderdale in this new position, she is also continuing her roles as assistant dean...
