The pandemic has made it evident that spiritual care isn’t the exclusive domain of the chaplaincy. Surely more patients have died in the presence of nurses than anyone else, making it crucial to [...]
As COVID cases spiked earlier this year and began to wane in the spring, New Jersey hospital workers remained at high risk of contracting the virus. More than 5,400 were infected in the first [...]
With Black women seven times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women in New Jersey, a law signed by Gov. Phil Murphy soon will require doctors and nurses to [...]
Oncology nursing is a unique specialty that requires specific knowledge of the biological and psychosocial dimensions of cancer and its effects on individuals and families. Rutgers Cancer [...]
Hello, fellow nurses, As our communities, including the nursing community, remains affected by the pandemic, some things are returning to some sort of normalcy. I’m sure that you, like I am, are [...]
U.S. News wrote an article for Nurses Week to address vaccine hesitancy. The article features Amita Avadhani, president of NJSNA’s Forum for Nurses in Advanced Practice. For Avadhani, [...]
As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, nurses across the spectrum of medical care stepped up with compassion, dedication and high standards to support patients, their families and each other. In New [...]
The New Jersey Department of Health is collaborating with CDC’s Project Firstline, a nationwide initiative to provide infection prevention and control training to frontline health care workers. [...]
On Wednesday, the CDC published a report of an outbreak of COVID-19 at a nursing home in Kentucky, where more than 90 percent of the residents but just under 53 percent of the staff had been [...]
The Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative (SNJPC) is pleased to announce that Lakeshia Montgomery has been named Director of Professional Education and Training. Montgomery has been with the [...]