Most nurses switch employers a few times over the course of their career or move to a different position within the same health care facility. Even if you’re happy with your job right now, it’s [...]
The 33-credit Master of Arts in Health Communication is designed to prepare students to excel in communications roles within the health care industry. The program will give working professionals [...]
When patients and families don’t treat nurses with the same level of respect as doctors, it can affect the quality of care. On the flip side, nurses who develop good relationships with their [...]
The results come as no surprise to anyone who has ever worked in the nursing field, but now a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania proves it beyond a reasonable doubt—quality care and [...]
Whether your bad day involved bureaucracy, a toxic co-worker or a patient who passed away, there are tried-and-true ways to make a comeback, right in time to start work the following day. Veteran [...]
Now that the new year is well on its way, are your new year resolutions starting to chafe? Are you struggling to shake off the visions of sugar plums dancing in your head? From Valentine’s Day to [...]
Many new nurses have to endure brusque behavior and cutting criticism from more experienced colleagues once they start their first job. Combined with other factors such as burnout, lack of [...]
Would you like to know exactly which characteristics make a good, or even a great, nurse? Beyond kindness, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, emotional stability, empathy and compassion, learn [...]
Nurses have a responsibility to educate patients about vaccinations and the implications when vaccine-preventable diseases reemerge. The ability of nurses to quickly assess patients for [...]
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has officially proposed declaring 2020 the year of the nurse and the midwife. Dr. Ghebreyesus said [...]