Celebrating Nurses’ Week at Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., is no small affair. Between the opening ceremony on May 6 through closing out the activities on May 12, nurses engaged in grand rounds, a skills fair, professional development talks and informational booths of programs and initiatives […]
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Partnership working between nurses and patients’ families in the critical care environment
Lucy Kirkham Principal lecturer in adult nursing, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England Why you should read this article: • To recognise the challenges that families may experience when a loved one is admitted to critical care • To identify the benefits of family-centred […]
Eye-movement tracking glasses are used to evaluate mental stress in first naturalistic study of critical care nurses — ScienceDaily
The mental workload of intensive care unit nurses can successfully be evaluated using eye-movement tracking glasses. In research recently published in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Nima Ahmadi, a lecturer in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and researchers […]
Foreign-Educated Nurses Across the Country Fill a Critical Role | Opinion
Foreign-educated nurses are an integral component of our nation’s health care delivery system, often adding a much-needed layer of support to hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities, many of which have faced ongoing nursing shortages for nearly 40 years. These staffing challenges were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic as the […]
Mother and Daughter Nurses Make Their Mark, Spread Message of Diversity At UNC Medical Center
The story of Honey Mone’t Jones, an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in the MICU at UNC Medical Center, and her mother, Venus Standard, a Certified Nurse Midwife, and current Assistant Professor at the UNC School of Medicine and Department of Family Medicine, is not your typical mother-daughter story. The story […]
AACN Critical Care Conference Brings Together Thousands of Nurses for Education, Inspiration
Newswise — The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) brings together thousands of progressive and critical care nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for acutely and critically ill patients and their families during its National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI, #NTI2022), with the theme “Rooted in Strength.” […]
National Nurses Week Events at University of Phoenix Feature College of Nursing Dean Raelene Brooks
Brooks leads in-person panel event May 7 at Southern California Campus and online event May 12 PHOENIX, May 09, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The University of Phoenix College of Nursing Dean Raelene Brooks, Ph.D., RN, led a panel event hosted by the university’s Southern California Campus on Saturday, May 7, in collaboration with […]
WVU Hospitals names nurses and colleagues of the year
Ceremony kicked off National Nurses Week Posted on 5/9/2022 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Six nurses and a clinical practice manager who supports nursing efforts won the top awards at the WVU Hospitals 2022 Nurses and Interprofessional Colleague of the Year ceremony held May 6. From left to right: Michael Grace, president […]
Physicians and Nurses Pivotal in Yale New Haven Health’s Supply Chain
The health system employs physicians as supply chain medical directors and nurses as value analysis nurses. Physicians and nurses play a formal role in supply chain at Yale New Haven Health. At health systems and hospitals, supply chain departments play a gatekeeper role in the acquisition of medical devices and […]
Why my fellow nurses and I are ready to strike at Stanford Hospital
In January, Michael Odell, a fellow critical care nurse at Stanford Health Care, died after abruptly walking out of his shift at work. Although the investigation is ongoing, all signs point to suicide. Michael was suffering quietly — something many health care workers understand all too well. As a critical […]
As Travel Nurses Fill Critical Shortages, High Pay Creates Challenges for Health Systems
While working alongside a temp nurse making double or triple your own salary could cause tension, Erickson says she hasn’t ever had issues with her co-workers. “They might ask how much I make, and I’ve been open with them,” Erickson says. “Honestly, they are short staffed, so they are more […]
Nurses at top California hospitals prepare to strike- POLITICO
‘EXHAUSTED AND WE’RE BURNING OUT’: Some 5,000 nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital — among the top-ranked hospitals in the country — plan to go on strike a week from today amid the collapse of contract negotiations. More than 9 in 10 eligible nurses voted to […]