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For nurses, there are some pretty hefty drawbacks to working 12 hours at a stretch including increased risk for reduced job performance, obesity, injuries and a wide range of chronic diseases. [...]

Mary Desin worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Hamot in Erie, Pennsylvania for more than 30 years before suffering a fatal medical incident while on the job. She [...]

Nurse researcher and NJSNA board member Tara Heagele, PhD, RN, PCCN, believes that nurses can decrease disaster-related disease, injury, and death by helping medically vulnerable people before [...]

This month’s theme for the Healthy Nurse Healthy New Jersey (HNHNJ) initiative is work-life balance with a focus on quality of life—mind, body and spirit. I am a certified health coach and [...]

In the United States, cesarean births have increased from 20% to 32% over the past 22 years. Researchers estimate that almost half of these procedures performed in the United States are not [...]

Last year, New Jersey first responders used the overdose reversal drug naloxone more than 16,000 times in their efforts to bring back heroin and opioid users from the brink of death, authorities [...]

Join Dr. Margaret “Meg” Fisher for an informative webinar on medical exemptions hosted by the New Jersey Immunization Network in collaboration with the New Jersey Department of Health. The [...]

Maridel Asuncion never found her niche during nursing school. Her education focused on different units in the hospital and nothing really piqued her interest. Asuncion’s mom, who is an operating [...]

Former U.S. Army nurse Ellan Levitsky loved her service in a field hospital in Normandy just after the D-day landings, but will never forget the sound of young military men crying themselves to [...]

A New Jersey hospital is saving up to $30,000 annually thanks to one nurse’s creative idea to reduce waste. Tami Ochs, RN, a behavioral health nurse at Summit-based Overlook Medical Center, [...]