February, 2024

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Delivering health equity at the bedside

American Nurse

Ensuring that nurses deliver equitable care is more than satisfying a mandatory education requirement. Rather, it requires understanding and connecting with patients, whose backgrounds, families, environments, and experiences play a role in their medical histories and in their health and wellbeing when they return home.

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Caring for Critical Hearts: Meet Sarah Cazenave, Cardiac ICU Nurse

Daily Nurse

She takes care of the most critical cardiac patients at the hospital. The care he received inspired Cazenave to become a Cardiac ICU nurse at the same hospital. Daily Nurse proudly honors Sarah Cazenave as the Nurse of the Week. My aunt, a nurse herself, is sitting at the bedside.

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Valentina Obreja Left Romania with Luggage and a Dream. Now She’s an Award-winning Nurse

Daily Nurse

Valentina Obreja has dedicated her career to improving care for ICU patients at UCLA Health. It’s what she told herself while bagging groceries at a supermarket as she awaited approval to take her nursing licensure exam. This complex medical equipment, combined with therapy, offers a lifeline to critically ill patients.

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Connections ease nurses’ burdens

American Nurse

Takeaways: Nurses reported that primary supportive factors that help prevent burnout include their relationships with friends, loved ones, colleagues, patients, and their community. These connections allow for greater workplace engagement, which can lead to improved patient outcomes. Hello, I’ll be your nurse today.”

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

An innovative approach to help new graduate nurses transition into practice Takeaways: As the nursing shortage continues, more new nursing graduates will take jobs in specialty areas such as critical care. Nursing graduates face many stressors and must be supported during their transition into practice.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Suzette Porter

Minority Nurse

Suzette Porter, MBA, BSN, RN, is an elder care nurse manager and adjunct faculty member who has been with Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) for over 25 years. Through Porter’s leadership as a nurse manager, her unit was awarded the Team Daisy Award in 2021 for teamwork. What is your title, and where do you work?

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A Quick Look at Martha Roger’s Science of Unitary Human Beings

American Nurse

She also believed that health care professionals should be creative and optimistic in their pursuits that lead to a synergistic body of knowledge for all of humankind, especially in the nursing discipline (Baumann, Wright, & Settecase-Wu, 2014). Negative responses might be a bacterial infection in the bloodstream affecting body organs.

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