Nurses Weekly

Addiction to social networking sites is affecting nurses’ performance and their ability to concentrate on their work, according to a new study. The study, published in the Journal of Advanced [...]

The New Jersey Center on Gun Violence Research at Rutgers University is launching eight new studies on gun violence and prevention. The research will be led by faculty members from across Rutgers [...]

When it comes to sepsis, it’s about TIME. As many as 80% of sepsis deaths could be prevented with rapid diagnosis and treatment. Sepsis awareness can and does save lives, yet only 58% of American [...]

It was a bittersweet surprise for a retiring Gloucester County nurse. On her final walk to work, coworkers greeted her with hugs and balloons. Anne Chiefari has been an operating nurse at [...]

Deciding if you should go back to school for a higher nursing degree—whether it’s a master’s in nursing science or nurse practitioner—is a personal decision that includes so many different [...]

Nurses are more likely to take their own lives, a new study found. Researchers from the University of California at San Diego recently conducted what they said is the first nationwide [...]

Through the days of the plague, measles and AIDS; whenever the citizens of the globe were suffering and casualty rates were high, nurses were in the thick of things. Today’s opioid [...]

The first annual Opioid Summit to address the stigma and misinformation surrounding opioid use disorders and to enhance the understanding of treatment options, such as medication-assisted [...]

Do you remember your car ride to work today? What were you thinking about the last time you inserted an intravenous catheter? When you were on a conference call, were you doing anything else [...]

After learning there was no resource in the community for children with brain injuries, a pediatric nurse created Camp Cranium that now serves approximately 60 campers with acquired or traumatic [...]