Nurse Title Protection legislation would prohibit the use of the title nurse by an unlicensed person. A nurse is a trusted health care professional who has worked for years on her/his education [...]
Nurse practitioners are frontline health care providers who often order testing on patients with possible tick-borne diseases. The New Jersey Department of Health Vectorborne Disease Team [...]
Research shows there has been an erosion of the relationship between those who provide health care and the patients they treat, and specifically an erosion of compassion. Nearly half of Americans [...]
Today’s centralized, medicalized system of care is unequipped to handle the surge of patients with “diseases of despair,” such as substance abuse, a recent report states. Given nursing’s history, [...]
Adriana Riano was only six credits away from a master’s degree. Just one more final to go, and she would achieve her nurse practitioner degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Riano, [...]
This month the Healthy Nurse, Healthy New Jersey team is focusing on the ethical and legal aspects of professional health. Nurses who are professionally healthy are able to cope with the ethical [...]
We see people die. We work on resuscitating patients. We try to control bleeding. We have end-of-life discussions. And sometimes we are verbally or physically abused by patients or visiting [...]
Experts and fellow nurses all agree that it’s important to clue our kids in on our work as a nurse so they’ll feel secure. And it’s just as critical not to overshare. The [...]
The nationwide shortage of nurses has not excluded school nurses. Only three out of five schools employ a full-time nurse. Many schools resort to using school staff and faculty—who have no [...]
Here are a few words about these women and men who spend their lives dealing with our hearts, blood, breath and bones. If you’re thinking, “But I don’t know any nurses,” don’t worry. If not yet, [...]
