South Jersey Biz announced its 2019 Best of Health Care this week and included NJSNA President Kate Gillespie as an emerging leader. In her role as NJSNA president, Gillespie will address nursing [...]
Mary Ellen Levine, NJSNA president-elect, met with Rep. Josh Gotthiemer at a roundtable hosted by IBEW in Paramus last week. She voiced concerns about the nursing shortage in New Jersey and [...]
In October 2010, the Institute of Medicine released the first “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health” report with recommendations to create an action-oriented blueprint for the [...]
A new Press Ganey study analyzed the responses of nearly 250,000 registered nurses to identify trends in their intent to stay at their jobs based on age, tenure and unit type, as well as drivers [...]
All except one of nine pregnant labor and delivery nurses at Maine Medical Center showed off their baby bumps in a photo shared widely on social media. Their infants are expected to arrive [...]
Let’s face it, giving up sugar can be downright challenging. It’s easy to spot sugary items such as soda, candy and other processed treats, but keep in mind sugar is lurking in foods items such [...]
Most nurses have excellent clinical skills that they learned through their education and on the job. Soft skills, however, are usually traits that cannot be taught. They affect the patient-nurse [...]
Have you ever considered becoming a nurse in one of the armed forces? You may be wondering if you need to become an RN first, what type of degree you need and if requirements are the same [...]
When Colin James, a nurse at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, won an Ed Sheeran-signed guitar in a radio station contest, he thought it was great. The only problem is he [...]
The decision to become a nurse is often an easy one. You want to help people and nursing is a great way to do it. Unfortunately, a lot of bedside nursing can be draining and after a hard shift, [...]