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Headlines from the Hill
Nurses should be proud that their hard work during the healthcare reform debate has paid off with passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In addition to monitoring the implementatio...
ANA works to remove legal barriers to APRN practice
While advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) have been increasing in number and expanding their impact on the healthcare system, federal law continues to contain many barriers to full APRN practi...
Putting the breaks on pulmonary edema
Grace Johnson, age 77, is admitted from the emergency department (ED) to your unit with dehydration and electrolyte imbalance caused by acute nausea and vomiting. Her vital signs are: blood pressure (...
Workforce development, APRN's on congressional agenda
Funding for nursing workforce developmentANA has been following the fiscal year (FY) 2008 appropriations process in reference to nursing workforce development programs. Here is a brief update. The Hou...
Flawed Ruling
Many nurses may not know the facts of the Kentucky River cases, but they do know this: Charge nurses are not supervisors.Unfortunately, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ignored the reality of...
Seven reasons why oncology nurses should get certified
For oncology nurses, specialty certification has become the gold standard. The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation awards the following certifications: Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN), Certifie...
Finance: It's not a dirty word
Your chief nursing officer stops you in the hall. To your surprise, she asks, “Jen, why don’t you apply for that charge nurse position that’s opening up on your unit? I’ve hear...
New online resource: Genetic/Genomic Competency Center
The Genetic/Genomic Competency Center (G2C2, http://www.g-2-c-2.org/) is a new free online resource created to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetic...
Helping nurses to achieve nursing excellence
The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association, provides individuals and organizations throughout the nursing profession with the resources they need ...
So you want to be an emergency nurse?
Congratulations! You’ve chosen one of the most exciting nursing specialties. So what should you do? Preparing yourselfIf you’re a nursing student, take every opportunit...
Headlines from the Hill
As one of three nurses in Congress, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30) has been a champion for nursing, introducing and cosponsoring bills to advance the nursing profession. One example is...
Unleash the healing power of pet therapy
People and animals have always had a special relationship. In primitive societies, animals provided some degree of warmth and safety. Today, animals are not only pets that provide social support but a...
From your ANA President
As healthcare professionals, we all know CPR to mean “cardiopulmonary resuscitation,” and we have all been trained in how to perform it.
But CPR also has another important meaning to registered nurse...
Seeking staffing solutions
In intensive care units (ICUs), staffing ratios—the ratio of one nurse-care provider to patients—have been standardized for 30 years. In almost any ICU, one registered nurse (RN) cares for...
Improving pain management: Call to action
Pain management has come a long way since Florence Nightingale witnessed the horrors of battlefield surgery. Yet many nurses believe it hasn’t advanced far enough. Nursing pain management expert...
What does a Nursing Professional Development Specialist (Nurse Educator) do?
Let’s assume for a moment that you just graduated from nursing school. You have a brand new degree, a little clinical hospital training, lots of new information, and a brief job as a nursing assistant...
CRNAs provide cost-effective anesthesia delivery
According to a study by The Lewin Group, a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) acting independently to deliver anesthesia is more cost effective than models using medical direction. The stud...
Travel nursing: Is it right for you?
A number of readers have written us with questions about travel nursing. For answers to these questions, we turned to an expert in the field—Dr. Franklin Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN. What are the mai...
Expand your nursing career horizons
“I’m a registered nurse.” Today, about 2.5 million people in the United States can make that claim. But being a nurse in 2008 is vastly different than it was 20 years ago. Perhaps mo...
Higher education bill creates new opportunities for nurses and schools
Higher education bill creates new opportunities for nurses and schools President Bush signed the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-315) into law on August 14, 2008. This marks the fir...
A textile tribute to the ideals and icons of nursing
May gentleness be your cloak. That’s the title of Rita Bergevin’s quilted banner depicting Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Mary Mahoney, and other nurses helping wounded British soldie...
OJIN: The best kept secret of nursing
American Nurses Association (ANA) members may not realize it, but they have access to some of the most cutting edge, up-to-date practice information available anywhere—and it’s offered to them free of...
International Nurses Society on Addictions: Preventing and managing addictive behavior
Tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use are among the leading causes of preventable death in the United States today. So in some sense, all nurses are addictions nurses. Addictive disorders include alc...
Chief nurse officer takes on full range of public health issues
Rear Admiral Carol A. Romano, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Assistant Surgeon General and Chief Nurse Officer for the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). Since her appointment to these prestigious po...
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Franz Kafka, a talented if universally depressing author, tells a story about a man from the country who wants to study law. In Before the Law, a parable in Kafka’s novel The Trial, the man wishes to ...