In 2020, the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio received the DAISY Award for Exceptional Patient Safety...
Do I even have hidden biases? The short answer is: “Yes, many.” We are all prone to these automatic cognitive processes, whether we would like to...
What does it mean to be a frontrunner? In the past, I believed of a nurse leader as any nurse in a leadership position or advanced...
Faking credentials on business cards raises red flags A reader asked a few nurse friend whose business cards falsely indicated that she had a BSN degree...
The day after the Covid-19 test was performed, the RN conducted a routine home visit with the patient for an unrelated problem. After being with the...
What does it mean to be a pacesetter? In the past, I assumed of a nurse leader as any nurse in a leadership position or advanced...
May 27, 2024 Shunsuke Mabuchi, director of resilient and sustainable systems for health and pandemic preparedness on the Global Fund When I began working on the...
For nurses, putting on a scrubs is greater than just putting on work clothes – it is a mental shift of their role as caregivers. This...
Thrombolytic drugs are commonly utilized in emergency situations to interrupt up or dissolve blood clots which have caused ischemia in essential organs. Alteplase, also often called...
There are certain words and phrases which might be used often in nursing and medicine – sometimes so often that we lose track of their true...
