May 17, 2012 - Two recent NLN documents respond to a nursing education community troubled by the growing reliance on testing as a graduation requirement. NLN Vision: Fair Testing Imperative in Nursing Education and “NLN Fair Testing Guidelines” were devised to help schools of nursing make more balanced decisions about the use of standardized tests.
May 17, 2012 - Two recent NLN documents respond to a nursing education community troubled by the growing reliance on testing as a graduation requirement. NLN Vision: Fair Testing Imperative in Nursing Education and “NLN Fair Testing Guidelines” were devised to help schools of nursing make more balanced decisions about the use of standardized tests.
May 17, 2012 – In an effort to improve nurse health and wellness for the benefit of both nurses and the public, the American Nurses Association (ANA) will host the 2012 Healthy Nurse Conference on Thursday, June 14. The conference aims to help nurses integrate healthy habits into their personal and professional lives and become “Models of Wellness in Action” for patients, their families, and the larger community.
May 17, 2012 – When one thinks about improving teamwork in the health care setting, the focus often is on nurse-physician relationships. But professionals cannot stop there. Effective work environments also require clinical nurse-nurse manager collaboration and communication.
May 11, 2012 - Tired of watching physicians start IVs on House? How about “naughty nurses” cheering a basketball team on national television? Now’s the time for nurses to step forward and let the world know about the profession. That’s the message coming from the UCLA School of Nursing’s symposium “Nurses and the Media: A Call to Action.”
May 11, 2012 - Tired of watching physicians start IVs on House? How about “naughty nurses” cheering a basketball team on national television? Now’s the time for nurses to step forward and let the world know about the profession. That’s the message coming from the UCLA School of Nursing’s symposium “Nurses and the Media: A Call to Action.”
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May 11, 2012 - Tired of watching physicians start IVs on House? How about “naughty nurses” cheering a basketball team on national television? Now’s the time for nurses to step forward and let the world know about the profession. That’s the message coming from the UCLA School of Nursing’s symposium “Nurses and the Media: A Call to Action.”
May 11, 2012 -When Mary Rita Hurley, RN, MPA, began nursing school in the 1970s, she, like many other nurses, enrolled in a hospital-based diploma program.
“There weren’t as many universities or four-year programs back then,” said Hurley, now a veteran nurse and the executive director of the Oregon Center for Nursing.
Nurses’ main desire is to help their patients. Sometimes, though, they’re missing just the right tool to help them do that. Here, two nurses discuss how they turned inspiration into innovation to invent the missing piece to perfect their patient care, followed by advice on how other nurses can turn their ideas into reality.
