Clinicians play important role in identifying signs of suicidal thoughts Suicide and the valuable role clinicians can play in its prevention is the topic of a new interprofessional continuing education course offered by OnCourse Read More

Nursing is a call to leadership By its very nature, the professional nurse role is one of leadership. Across the healthcare continuum, regardless of our role or practice setting, we are looked to as leaders. As nursing students, Read More

Be a Jen, not a Nancy, during nursing interview Before a word was spoken or attire evaluated, the two new 2017-model graduate nurses seemed to be identical job candidates. But upon interview, Jen was a career-seeking missile, wh Read More

Think outside the tchotchkes during National Nurses Week In a distant, past, faraway land of tchotchkes, nurses celebrated National Nurses Week by accruing a dazzling array of pens and stationery, coffee cups, tote bags and T-shi Read More

(Content provided by The DAISY Foundation) Transforming practice environments According to the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the Pathway to Excellence program honors organizations that help transform practice environmen Read More

(Content provided by Chamberlain University College of Nursing) Nurses uniquely qualified for boards As we recognize National Nurses Week, I reflect on and celebrate the daily impact nurses have on so many lives. From wellness a Read More

Credentials are a form of communication We have all seen multiple streams of initials after nurses' names. This can make someone seem intimidating, especially if the credentials are paired with a long work title. A frequently Read More

Back in the '70s I recently heard some students brag about how they were going into nursing "for the money.” This brought me back to my own beginnings as a new grad back in the ’70s. Starting at $10 an hour, I was one of the Read More

Helping a troubled patient If you are an emergency nurse, you practice within the requirements of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. However, the nurse in the following case made a patient care decision that m Read More

Workers comp: What's the purpose? A reader submitted a question about her inability to resolve a three-year-old case she filed under her state’s workers’ compensation statute. Nothing seems to be progressing and she believes Read More

A look at app pilot study A nurse scientist and an engineer created a smartphone application for patients with heart failure — and the patients participating in a pilot study said they’re finding it useful in helping them mak Read More

Details of the defamation claim A reader asked if she could sue her nurse manager over false oral statements about her nursing care that resulted in a transfer to another unit and a four-week leave of absence cause by the stress Read More

Nurse.com sponsors annual award for champions of diversity, inclusion, sustainability To support the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s mission of producing a culturally diverse workforce, Nurse.com by OnCourse Learn Read More

My opinion on men in nursing You might find it surprising, but some of my female colleagues think a big bolus of testosterone (I’m paraphrasing) would improve the nursing profession. They think more male nurses would take this Read More

The incidence of mumps is on the rise, and health officials have warned the public of a potential nationwide outbreak. From January 1 to February 25 2017, 37 states and the District of Columbia in the U.S. reported mumps infectio Read More

Nurse collect and donate diapers to families struggling to afford the necessity for the young children A group of nurses who are members of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses donated more than 7,00 Read More

Working long hours and short staffing have been identified as two problems for nurses for some time When you work long hours, whether voluntarily or out of staff number necessity, you are not functioning at your best. Short staff Read More

Those of you who work as an agency nurse know all too well the ins and outs of that role. Some of you may work at a particular facility on a particular unit for weeks or months at a time. In contrast, some of you may work at a dif Read More

(Editor's note: This post, originally published in February 2017,  was updated with new information.) There was a time when milking chest tubes and bathing children in alcohol were standard practices. Although at the time the Read More

Everyone has a reason for going to nursing school and often different reasons for continuing education beyond that. I am one of the few RNs I know at my age who decided to become a nurse when I was in high school. Living in Washin Read More

February is American Heart Month, the perfect time to help others develop and practice healthy lifestyle behaviors and reduce their risk of developing CVD. As nurses we know that modifying eating habits, becoming more physically Read More

Best-selling books have been written about what makes a leader great. Ivy League graduate business schools have designed their curricula around the question, and many award-winning movies and documentaries have featured the making Read More

Nurses always focus on patients, their families and their communities while forgetting what they need to do to stay healthy. 2017 has been declared the Year of the Health Nurse by the American Nurses Association. On its website, t Read More

I remember feeling excited, nervous and lost during my very first clinical experience. Those feelings made me wonder if nursing was right for me. But as I gained more hands-on experience and knowledge, I gained more confidence a Read More

Defying political polls and pundit predictions, on the morning of Nov. 9, 2016, millions of Americans who missed the late night acceptance speech awoke to the news of Donald Trump's presidential victory. A long and hard election Read More

First I wanted to be a minister, then a religion professor. Bypassing these ideas and my childhood aspirations to become a police officer, fire chief or cowboy (well, I’m sort of a cowboy, if you ask my colleagues), I became a Read More

A reader submitted a question about using her experience with electronic health records, her clinical practice and her background in risk management to develop a niche focusing on EHRs and the legal issues therein to improve patie Read More

(Editor’s note: This post, originally published in January 2017, was updated with new information.) In nursing, salaries increased on average about 1.3% per year from 2008 to the middle of 2014, and since then the rate has go Read More

Nursing is the leading profession when it comes to ethics and honesty, according to a well-known poll. Among professions surveyed by the annual Gallup honesty/ethics poll, nurses have been at the top of the list since 2001, and r Read More

Blindly following her schedule, Samantha slogged to work every day. She enjoyed being a nurse and appreciated those special patient moments, but at the end of her routinely brutal 12-hour shifts, Samantha often thought, “Is this Read More