The increasingly diverse U.S. population and the RN shortage challenge nursing schools to coach students whose first languages are apart from English. The excellent news is...
Carolyn Ackerman Ed.D MS RN CHPN is from Arvada, Colorado and has almost 40 years of experience in home health care and hospice. She actually discovered...
According to the New York State Department of Education, no less than 10% of the U.S. population will develop a substance use disorder of their lifetime,...
Today’s nurses struggle with many complex problems of their day by day practice. On the one hundredth anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s death, Nurse.com asked famous nightingale...
As nurses, the very first thing we regularly do when entering a patient’s room is assess their mental state and level of consciousness. We immediately observe...
NursingCenter celebrates Certified Nurse Day on March 19 yearly. Why March 19? It happens to be the birthday of the pioneer and inspiration behind nurse certification,...
In 2018, the New Mexico Nurses Association celebrated the state’s twenty fifth anniversary of state nurses with the ability to practice independently of physicians and have...
The DON then notified the RN’s colleagues that the RN was on administrative leave and can be terminated upon completion of the leave. The RN desires...
Last November, 16 other RNs and I walked into Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, wearing pristine white uniforms and shoes. We carried...
Vivid, dramatic images of Civil War nurses permeate history books into the American psyche: Clara Barton in a blood-soaked scrubs, working tirelessly alongside surgeons amputating legs...
