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Urban sprawl and the built environment
Environmental health is in the midst of a paradigm shift. Today, features of the built environment, such as architecture and urban planning, are considered as important to human health as features of ...
Cornucopia
The Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest and bounty of crops with the Wampanoag Indians in 1621 by eating wild fowl, venison, corn, grains, and nuts. Unlike this “first Thanksgiving,” ...
Study: NP-staffed clinic improves care, lowers cost for women with benign breast conditions
The Virginia Mason Breast Clinic, staffed by nurse practitioners (NPs), has substantially improved care timeliness for women with symptomatic benign breast conditions, according to an article in Healt...
The nurse’s role in preventing cervical cancer: A cultural framework
As new cervical cancer prevention technologies and vaccine science evolve, so does the need for nurse expertise in these areas. Nurses are a core source of vaccine information, including the human pap...
Retail-based clinics: New option for nurses
Someone who feels ill has two options: He can call his physician’s office and make an appointment—maybe for the same day, maybe not. Then, the patient can drive to the physician’s of...
Jump-start your job search
A challenging economy is playing havoc with the job market—and nursing isn’t immune. Hospital closings and budget cuts abound. Older nurses are delaying retirement and others are increasing their hour...
Advancing adoption of the electronic health record
They say health care is local and personal. I can attest to that. I moved from the private healthcare sector in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to the public national setting of Washington, D.C. to work in the O...
From Your ANA president and ANF Chair
This is the season when we think of family and close friends as we share our love, commitment, and gifts with one another. And, you—the nurses of America—are our family.
Over the last year, we have h...
No evidence for Alzheimer's prevention methods says new report
A new evidence report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says there is no evidence for that many current strategies for preventing cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease, such as n...
How to create “sticky” messages to influence others
Nursing has been ranked as the most trustworthy of all professions for the past decade, except for firefighters after 9/11. Being perceived as trustworthy may make us feel good, but it doesn’t galvani...
Nurse practitioners: A vital force in healthcare delivery
The past few years have cast nurse practitioners (NPs) in the spotlight, thanks to passage of the Affordable Care Act, the 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change...
The ‘state’ of state health insurance exchanges
Provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have become a lightning rod for some state policymakers. The requirement for each state to have a health insurance exchange was intended as a mechanism to i...
A little humor please
Laughter is a way of dealing with life’s stressors. Learning how to use humor to enrich our personal and professional lives can benefit us in our roles as nurses, no matter the setting in which we pra...
From our readers....Caring for Haiti from afar
The devastation in Haiti following the earthquake caused many of us in healthcare to come to a standstill. I am heartsick watching the suffering that the people of Haiti have had to endure. To know th...
Make your voice heard
It’s time to vote again, and this year, I’m voting for Connie. She’s running for the Virginia House of Delegates, hoping to unseat an incumbent. A community leader and nurse practiti...
The new normal
Many healthcare organizations are focusing on reducing costs to help them weather the coming months of shrinking budgets. Others are beginning to panic. For decades, hospitals have lived on a diet wit...
Post-intensive care syndrome: What it is and how to help prevent it
My family and I have needed counseling for psychological trauma stemming from my ICU experience. It wasn't the car accident itself (which I don't remember) that caused my post-intensive care syndrome ...
Case Study: When is what you know considered confidential?
Five years ago, Jane Doe* was an inpatient at the XYZ Psychiatric Medical Clinic, being treated for long-standing cocaine use. Hers was a voluntary admission; she’d never been arrested, charged, or co...
Mayo Clinic launches Center for Social Media
The new Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media is intended to accelerate adoption of social media for healthcare purposes. Read more here. ...
Disparity found in access to specialists between publicly insured and privately insured children
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine that analyzed calls to outpatient specialty clinics found that two-thirds of children with Medicaid-CHIP were denied an appointment compared to only 11% ...
Letters to the Editor - July 2007
Oversight not needed As a recent graduate of a nurse practitioner (NP) program, I appreciated your article “Retail-based clinics: New option for nurses” in the March issue. You provided a ...
Warfarin therapy and pharmacogenomics: A step toward personalized medicine
This article is the first in a series that will bring the latest genetic developments from the National Human Genome Research Institute to practicing nurses. Every day, nurses sit with patients, list...
Hospitals Explore Innovative Nurse Retention Strategies
Reprinted with permission from NurseZone.com.
Hospitals know that it’s less expensive to retain the nurses they have than to recruit, train and place new ones. So as the nursing shortage drags on, ho...
Teachable moments: Asthma education in the ED
Every year, nearly 2 million patients seek care in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) for asthma attacks. That gives the ED staff a great opportunity to teach patients about managing asthma. There’s jus...
Issues up close
Family nurse practitioner (FNP) and nurse-midwife Karen Holder, FNP-BC, CNM, MHS, sees patients at a large primary care clinic in Flagstaff, Arizona, as well as at small satellite units in remote comm...
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