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

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

Smaller institutions targeted Hackers want electronic health records and they’re targeting smaller institutions with less protection in order to get them, according to a Feb. 16, 2017, article published in Modern Medicine. T Read More

Identifying vascular complications The Society for Vascular Surgery has released a list of six diabetes vascular complications and how to avoid them. Nurses can use the list to identify risk factors and educate their diabetic pat Read More

Males who test positive A study released by the CDC revealed 95% of males who tested positive for the Zika virus were free of the virus after three months, according to a HealthDay News brief published in February. But CDC guidel Read More

Cancer rates underestimated There is a an even larger disparity for cervical cancer among African-American women than originally thought, according to a January 2017 article in the journal, Cancer, published by the American Cance Read More

Finding a cherished companion Three nurses sprung into action to find an elderly patient’s beloved pet, according to a Harrison Daily Times article published in February. Molly Roy, director of nursing, Jordan Chaney, assis 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

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

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

A registered nurse from Regina, Saskatchewan, underwent a drawn out and expensive legal battle over a Facebook post, according to a Feb. 18, 2017, article published in the Toronto Sun and written by Ashley Martin. Two years ago 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

Physicians often prescribe pain medication as a first line of therapy for lower back pain, according to the American College of Physicians. Now, the college’s new guideline on lower back pain treatment is encouraging patients t Read More

(Content provided by The DAISY Foundation.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2022, there will be 1.05 million positions open for nurses to fill due to healthcare demand and replacement needs. Nurses with clinic Read More

Women with early-stage breast cancer who receive specific types of scalp-cooling treatments are much more likely to keep at least some of their hair during chemotherapy, according to two recent studies published Feb. 14 by JAMA. 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

Using cannabis or cannabinoids can effectively treat chronic pain as well as ease some of the side effects of chemotherapy. However, there also seems to be substantial evidence of an association between cannabis use and the develo Read More

The number of patients using painkillers in the U.S. hit 38%, which is even higher than the 31% of Americans who use tobacco, the Washington Post reported. “Those numbers are so high partly because Americans have developed 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

At UCLA Health, the electronic health records system has all the bells and whistles it needs to be the useful tool and care diary it's intended to be, with one major bonus: the patient story is in the spotlight, in large part due Read More

Terri Ann Parnell, DNP, MA, RN, FAAN, principal and founder of Health Literacy Partners and CNO of the advisory board for TVR Communications, which provides pCare Interactive Patient Systems, answered questions about her passion Read More

A patch may be the answer for peanut allergy sufferers, according to results from a trial conducted by the Consortium of Food Allergy Research, which is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Pean Read More

The Institute of Medicine's Report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health" states nurses should be encouraged to pursue doctoral degrees early in their careers to maximize the potential value of their additiona Read More

This flu season, researchers at Johns Hopkins University are using the emergency room setting for clinical trials on patients who present with acute respiratory illness, according to a Baltimore Sun article published online Nov. 2 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

The burden of having diabetes is linked to depression particularly among women, according to a study conducted by researchers at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. “Our study sample represented nearly nine mi Read More

A grant from the National Science Foundation has led engineering and nursing students at Duke University to create a robotic "nurse" to assist human nurses, according to an article published in the News & Observer. The robots Read More

Americans spent almost 5% more on healthcare in 2015 compared with 2014, and prescription drugs were the fastest growing expense, according to an article published Nov. 22 by HealthDay News. Prescription costs increased 11% from 2 Read More