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Sustaining Excellence: Knowledge Transfer and Strategic Planning in Nursing Leadership

American Nurse

Challenges in Current Leadership Development High turnover rates and the promotion of nurses into leadership roles without adequate training pose significant challenges. Studies by Roth and Whitehead (2019) and Ramseur et al. How do we grow our next generation of nurse leaders? Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 23(1), 552.

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Alabama Veterans Affairs Nurse Earns Bachelor of Science in Nursing Via SIMPath® in 16 Weeks

Post University

A Move to the Veterans Health Care System In 2019, Teri joined the Veterans Affairs (VA) Central Alabama Health Care System as an emergency department nurse and moved to per diem nursing (PRN)status with Jackson Hospital. I loved working in the ICU, because you learn so much about patient-centered care, she says.

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Nitrous oxide: Myths and misconceptions

American Nurse

The ideal member of the obstetrical care team to initiate N 2 O is the bedside nurse, as ordered by the patient’s midwife or physician. In addition, organizations have initiated bedside nurse-driven programs across the country, which have proven efficient and cost-saving. 2019:4618798. 2022;75(12):2948-52.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: A quality improvement initiative

American Nurse

Erica Fonseca is a former bedside nurse at Childrens Hospital of San Antonio and North Central Baptist, in San Antonio, Texas; shes currently a neonatal nurse practitioner with the Pediatrix Medical Group in Houston, Texas. February 7, 2019. Other organizations can adapt this project to their individualized needs.

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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., 2019, Forsyth et al., 2020; Romppanen et al., 2017; Zhang et al.,

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NCLEX vs Next Generation

American Nurse

Success requires perseverance The NGN presents an exciting new challenge by mimicking the lifesaving decision making required of bedside nurses, who make complex critical judgments that require careful problem solving. doi:10.3928/01484834-20190122-03 National Council of State Boards of Nursing. See Resources.) J Nurs Educ.