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I’m a nurse educator and educating others (really, being educated by others) is my greatest joy in life. Every time I speak with Miss E., I learn. She is one of the elderly residents who live in [...]

Nurses often reach out to me for advice — they have an innovation idea and don’t know what to do next. This is rarely taught in nursing school, which is why I love having these conversations with [...]

The American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) has launched a bold, new initiative to improve consumers’ health outcomes by transforming nursing education, regulation and practice.  The [...]

For months, there has been a reaction by society to the COVID-19 virus. Amid this health crisis, nurses are at the center. According to Pender (2020), promotion of health assumes individuals want [...]

Hurricane Ida, a category 4 hurricane, made landfall in Southeastern Louisiana on August 29, bringing 150 mph winds and more than 17 inches of rain in some areas.  As the storm weakened to a [...]

September 1, 2021 The Honorable Xavier Becerra Secretary Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20201   Dear [...]

By: Georgia Reiner, MS, CPHRM, Senior Risk Specialist, Nurses Service Organization (NSO) Nurses have grown accustomed to documenting assessment results in the electronic health record (EHR), [...]

Our top priority remains protecting the American people from COVID-19. COVID-19 vaccination, wearing masks, physical distancing, testing, contact tracing, quarantine and isolation, and [...]

As the pandemic drags on into its 19th month, COVID hospitalizations—after first shooting past 8,000 in New Jersey, then dropping, then rising dramatically last winter, then falling again—are [...]

It was on this day 14 years ago when Sherrie Daisey walked out of the doors at Mission Teens with a new lease on life. “Literally this will always be my second home,” she said. [...]