Nursing “brought out a part of me that I didn’t know was there.” Annie Lewis O’Connor PhD, NP-BC, MPH, FAAN never planned to turn out to...
When nurses in Virginia decided to lobby for fewer restrictions on nurse practitioners (NPs), they knew that any changes to existing law would require an uphill...
Nurse abuse, or lateral violence, is a type of workplace violence defined as non-physical, aggressive, hostile and/or harmful behavior between co-workers. While isolated acts of nurse...
An entire neurological assessment of a comatose patient could be difficult. However, brainstem function and specific cranial nerves (III, IV, VI, VIII) could be assessed by...
Donna J. White, CRNA, MS is an completed nurse anesthetist working and living in Rhode Island. She began her nursing profession within the Nineteen Eighties, earning...
At the tip of my senior 12 months of highschool, I got married and commenced starting a family. Five years later, my son Brandon was hit...
If you’re a nurse involved in direct patient care, you’ve probably administered insulin sooner or later in your profession. Have you ever wondered how insulin works?...
In recent years, using cannabis products to treat medical or physical ailments has develop into increasingly accepted within the healthcare and scientific community. Cannabidiol, or CBD,...
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...