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This weekend we will be celebrating our Independence on July 4, but due to COVID, in a very different way. I have been thinking about how we as a nation have worked hard and sacrificed greatly to [...]

Amid a global pandemic that has sown chaos and misinformation in health care and claimed more than 100,000 American lives, nurses’ expertise is more relevant than ever. They’ve seen the failures [...]

Nurses don’t just take care of patients’ medical needs. They provide mental and emotional support as well. Florence Layton celebrated her 15th year as a nurse at The Orchards at Bartley [...]

Georgiana Jagger served in World War II as a recruiter and was stationed at Fort Dix in Morristown. Georgiana came to The Orchards at Bartley Assisted Living, located in Jackson, in March 2015. [...]

A tube was threaded down his throat just to keep him breathing. Only a few miles away, his fiancée lay in agony, confined to a hospital bed. The doctor and the nurse had planned to marry in a few [...]

The New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA) wants employers to treat nurse incivility and bullying as a safety issue with a zero-tolerance policy and cultivate a workplace culture in which [...]

In New Jersey, we are seeing the overall number of COVID cases decrease and the state slowly opening. This is good news but not a reason to stop social distancing, wearing your mask and washing [...]

Do you know a long-term care nurse who went above and beyond the call of duty to assist others during the height of the coronavirus pandemic? NJSNA would like to recognize the nurses who braved [...]

Like veterans of any war, many nurses who have fought COVID-19 in New Jersey’s hospitals dwell less on their heroism than on the trauma they have witnessed. They are relieved the surge has [...]

The American Nurses Association (ANA) continues to advocate for the Administration to support and protect nurses on the COVID-19 frontlines and the entire health care system during the pandemic [...]