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Creating a Magnet® culture using the ANA Code of Ethics
Every day, nurses care for patients who are frightened, in pain, or facing life-changing
problems. Patients believe we will recognize and respond to their individual needs. According to
the annual G...
Creating ethical environments in nursing
A nurse fails to implement treatments for a patient, yet documents that she provided such care. Administrators pressure nursing faculty members to falsify student grades.A nursing leader urges a nurse...
Searching for transparency at Guantanamo Bay
Late last fall, I received an invitation to view the detainee facilities at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba. The purpose of the trip was to take a firsthand look at the facilities, meet with staff, and re...
For once, ethics and the ‘bottom line’ agree
In a rare moment of cooperation, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Nurses Association released a new report that found up to 766,000 healthcare and ...
Issues up close
There are a multitude of tools available to nurses that capture, analyze, and determine nurse staffing, whether to create a staffing plan or evaluate its effectiveness. Within that multitude, ANA’s Pr...
Understanding core measures for heart-failure treatment
Heart failure (HF) occurs when the heart can’t pump enough oxygenated blood to perfuse body organs. This condition is the primary cause of more than 55,000 deaths each year in the United States. The m...
ANA Revises Two of Its Foundational Nursing Publications
In its role as the professional organization for all 3.1 million registered nurses in the United States, ANA is the author and custodian of three foundational nursing documents: The Code of Ethics for...
Doing the right thing: Pathways to moral courage
Patient advocacy requires nurses to support and protect their patients. Nurses often find themselves in ethically questionable situations that conflict with their personal and professional morals. So...
Ethics and the quality of care
Heaven knows the federal government, ably abetted by various organizations, publications, societies and the like is doing its best to improve healthcare quality through value-based purchasing, Hospita...
Maximize your reprocessing program
The healthcare industry is at a critical juncture. The quest to find solutions that deliver better care for less money is imperative. To address this challenge, there is much talk these days about ...
Virtual visiting: The next best thing to being there
Virtual visiting brings the world to the patient’s bedside. Built-in computer cameras, text messaging, e-cards, social networking sites, and other high-tech methods allow hospital patients to stay con...
The practice of ethics
When staff nurses walk through the doors of their workplace, they step into a world of complex human interactions, science and technology, birth, death, and everything in between. And if those factors...
Genetics and ethics in health care and nursing
To help nurses provide competent care in the genomic era, the American Nurses Association and the International Society of Nurses in Genetics, Inc., have co-published Genetics and Ethics in Health Car...
Health, safety, & wellness
Many nurses have difficulty finding time to sit, eat, and recharge during a long shift—even with scheduled breaks. Therefore, napping during breaks probably seems unthinkable. Many hospitals even ha...
Interprofessional education promotes collaboration
In contemporary health care, interprofessional collaboration is a
marker of excellence. Evidence links effective collaborative practices
with the best patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and sta...
From your ANA President
On any given day, nurses are innovating and improving care in ways big and small. Sometimes our ideas are aimed at helping just one patient, perhaps offering a novel approach to overcoming a particula...
How one hospital helps staff nurses pay for advanced academic degrees
Have you made the career-changing decision to go back to school to pursue an advanced
nursing degree? If so, you’re probably excited, determined, a little nervous…and broke! You might
be anxious abo...
Schwartz Center Rounds® and Magnet®: Enhancing patient- and family-centered care
The healthcare team determines a 13-year-old girl with medically complex needs is ready for discharge—but her mother demands that she stay. As part of the team, what should you do?
A 2-month-old girl...
Nursing quality: Strength in numbers
All of us want to be the best of the best. But how do we know if we’re providing the best-quality care? By measuring our baseline performance and arming ourselves with information about other similar ...
Readers Respond
Billing by nursing intensity: One way to ease understaffing?
Re: “Hospital nurse staffing for dummies” (March 2013): Perhaps changing how nurses’ time is billed would help relieve understaffing. Most...
From Your ANA President
HAVING WORKED in an emergency department for more than 20 years, I know what it’s like to have to think fast and move fast to save a life. But for too long, registered nurses (RNs) in many settings ac...
Nursing's ethical commitment to effective patient communication
As a nurse, you understand the need for effective patient communication. To provide ethical, high-quality care, you must be aware of and respond appropriately to your patient’s cultural beliefs,...
When does a nurse-patient relationship cross the line?
I’m a medical-surgical nurse at a large urban hospital. Five days ago, I was assigned as the primary care nurse for a patient—let’s call him Dan—who’s recovering from inj...
Practical strategies to prevent surgical sharps injuries
Perioperative professionals are among the healthcare professionals at highest risk for sharps injuries—getting stuck by a suture needle or cut by a scalpel. About 30% of sharps injuries occur in surgi...
Magnet Recognition Program®: Facts and FAQs
Here are a few facts about the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition
Program® from the ANCC website.
As of January 28, 2013, there were 395 Magnet® facilities.
Ma...