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Study examines training needs of healthcare providers in combat zones
A study published in the April 2018 issue of Critical-Care Nurse looked at combat casualty care provided to trauma patients. Improving outcomes depends not just on physicians, but on healthcare providers with the right training and experience, such as critical care nurses and paramedics.
Nursing innovations allow RNs to spread their wings
Support is growing to help nursing innovations come alive. From healthcare "hackathons" and makeathons to a Nurse SharkTank event, nurses are getting more attention for their creative inventions that can evolve patient care.
Caring science starts with self-care for nurses
My work on the Theory of Human Caring is founded on the principle that practicing kindness, compassion and equanimity toward yourself is an important process to go through before you can be caring, loving and compassionate. Self-care is integral to a nurse’s job.
Nurse acts quickly after decapitated rattlesnake bites husband
A Texas nurse “jumped into professional mode” after her husband was bitten by a rattlesnake minutes after he had cut off its head in their yard.
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How confidence and closeness transformed my family’s NICU stay
My son Jackson was born 16 weeks premature. Weighing just 1 pound, 8 ounces, he was considered a micropreemie and would experience a long stay in the neonatal ICU.
Mercy Ships’ Cameroon mission turns nurse’s world upside down
Mercy Ships volunteer nurse Hannah Thyberg, RN, spent two months in Cameroon, working on the Africa Mercy floating hospital. Her experiences caring for children who needed physical care and emotional support gave her a new perspective on life and what being a nurse actually means.
Nurse advocacy can elicit big changes
Whether you're a nurse who contacts a physician about a change in a patient’s condition, questions an order you think is potentially dangerous to your patient or contacts your CNO about nurse-patient ratios on your unit, you are practicing nurse advocacy.
Nursing Now campaign to raise nurses’ voices and profiles
Nursing Now, a three-year campaign to improve global health, was launched in February and aims to empower nurses to help tackle the many health challenges being faced in the 21st century. The initiative is set to run through 2020 by a campaign board of nurses and non-nurses from 16 different countries.
Diveheart offers people with disabilities life-changing experiences
With a goal of building confidence and independence among children and adults with disabilities through scuba therapy, Diveheart uses an innovative and exciting method to temporarily decrease pain and build self-esteem. The Illinois organization is making waves — in the most positive sense — in several states.
Nurse navigator touts proton therapy and solid oncology RN teams
In her role as a proton therapy nurse navigator at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Pam DeLongchamp, BSN, RN, OCN, is fortunate to be able to support oncology patients as they face physical and emotional challenges. And her patients benefit from advanced proton therapy treatments such as Hyperscan.
My first year as a nurse was a roller coaster ride
My first year as a nurse (and the emotional rollercoaster) began three weeks after my June 2017 graduation. Happiness, anxiety, nervousness, I experienced them all — frequently.
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