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How can hospitals hold on to nurses, bring new ones into the fold, and fend off extreme staffing shortages? From more positive images of nurses to more flexible roles, industry experts explored a [...]

By Sandy Foley, DNP, MSN, RN We would like to express our gratitude to all New Jersey (NJ) Devils Nurses Night attendees. The collaborative effort between the NJ Devils and the Institute for [...]

A sobering new survey released by Elsevier Health, called “Clinician of the Future,” reveals a prediction that up to 75% of healthcare workers will be leaving the healthcare profession by 2025. [...]

Within the Tate Galleries in London hangs one of history’s most evocative paintings depicting patient care—the 1887 painting by Sir Luke Fildes, entitled The Doctor. Considered to be a fine [...]

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  Wendy Pritchett MSN, RN, OCN, and Karen Kinsley, BSN RN OCN (Region 1 President-elect) led an excellent discussion on Verbal Abuse in the Outpatient Setting and Maintaining a Safe Work [...]

Human Trafficking remains a global threat and robs people of their rights and dignity.1 In the United States, hundreds of thousands of children are victimized every year and 99% are never [...]

By Theresa Wang The current hospital call bell system has been in place since it was invented in 1979. This simple device allows patients to press a button to call the central nurses’ [...]

The International Council of Nurses (ICN), the European Federation of Nurses Associations(EFN) and the European Forum of National Nursing and Midwifery Associations (EFNNMA),speaking on behalf of [...]

Immanuel Kant believed that no action was moral unless performed out of a sense of duty or obligation. Even the word duty suggests that one must follow a certain course of action. In my life duty [...]