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Two nurses wearing scrubs are hugging and have their arms out as if flexing their muscles.FeatureFLOURISH!Meaningful steps to increase personal resilience and be your best self - even during a pandemic...of two years of research. The report cites research suggesting that more than half of all clinicians — including nurses and physicians across the United States — experience symptoms of...
Tiffany Sweden is in goggles, gown, N-95, and bonnet. Behind her are IV poles with drips and a stethoscopeFeatureNursing on the Front Lines of COVID-19Keeping the virus (and panic) under control at the Seattle-area hospital that treated the first U.S. case...more typically used for handling hazardous drugs such as chemotherapy. Adding a surgical bouffant to cover my hair, I then place a CAPR (controlled air-purifying respirator) on my head and...
Registered Nurse Esperanza Salazar stands smiling with a badge on and St. Francis Medical Center behind herMy SpecialtyInfection Prevention Nursing, Esperanza Salazar, St. Francis Medical CenterCombating outbreaks and hospital-associated infections...as part of our antimicrobial stewardship program. This guides us to enforce isolation precautions if needed and report infectious diseases to public health and the National Healthcare Safety Network database...
A nurse is smiling seated at a desk and shaking the hand of another nurse who is standing in front of herFeatureImproving Nurse RetentionSix Strategies to Reduce RN Turnover...over 87.8 percent of its entire workforce! This revolving door is expensive. NSI reports that the average cost of bedside RN turnover in 2018 was $52,100 per position. On average,...
Three students are sitting in a circle laughing togetherNursing & Healthcare NewsNurse Practitioners for Mental HealthProgram to add 300 NPs in California...Workforce Commission warned that the state faces a mental health provider shortage that will only get worse as aging psychiatrists and psychologists retire over the next decade. Psychiatric mental health...

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A group of hospital personnel are smiling and looking at the cameraNursing & Healthcare NewsThe Nursing State of the NationLatest RN demographics...the national nursing workforce has become better educated and more diverse. About 26.7 percent of U.S. nurses are nurses of color, while about 9.6 percent are men. APRNs now account...
Nurse smiling and wearing scrubsNursing & Healthcare NewsInternational Year of the Nurse and MidwifeWHO calls for 9 million new nurses in next decade...Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030 initiative is 32.3 million nurses and midwives worldwide by decade’s end, about 9 million more than the current total. In addition to...
Nursing Book ClubBlack Death at the Golden Gate by David K. Randall and The Mosquito: A Human History of the Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. WindegardTwo books about the politics of epidemics...contain the disease before it spread beyond the harbor of the West’s largest city to the rest of the continental United States. This crisis left politicians debating who was to...
An illustration of the electrical bassinet on the left, and the stainless steel picture of one on the rightProfiles In NursingEvelyn Lundeen (1900-1963), Neonatal Nurse Who Redefined Premature Infant CareSetting the standards for neonatology care...health departments in more than two dozen states had established premature infant care programs. Most followed the “Chicago model” Lundeen and Hess had pioneered. Lundeen died in 1963, eight years...
Nurse in white coat and stethoscope around their neck is scrubbing their handsNursing & Healthcare NewsAntibiotic Resistance2.9 million infections a year, but hospital efforts are helping...Two weeks before Thanksgiving, the CDC published “Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019,” an updated version of a report previously issued back in 2013. The latest report offers...