Consult QD

AUGUST 11, 2023

Nurse Essentials · The Leadership Path: How to Decide if a Nursing Leader Position Is Right for You Most nurses enter the profession envisioning a career in patient care. But there is an array of impactful and fulfilling leadership roles, even for nurses who never considered leaving the bedside.

Leadership

American Nurse

JULY 21, 2023

How about the staff nurses? Sure, bedside nurses use cutting edge technology in patient care, but there has been a lag in innovations that will make the day-to-day work of staff nurses easier or more efficient. AI developers might want to chat with nurses to hear what’s useful for them.

Health Literacy

Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It is a profession that requires dedication, empathy, and a genuine passion for patient care. Nurses who find joy in helping patients, improving their health, and providing emotional support tend to be more satisfied in their roles. One way Nurses can engage in continuous learning is by pursuing advanced degrees or certifications.

Work-Life Balance

Diversity Nursing

JULY 10, 2023

Nurses at the forefront of healthcare continue to face challenges that change how we provide Nursing care to our patients. As the Nursing field continues to evolve, here are some of the top Nursing trends to watch in 2023 and for the years to come.

Travel Nursing

Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As you care for your body, you should also be caring for your nursing career. Individualized Career Nutrition Optimal nutrition for your nursing career may be quite dissimilar from that of your friends or colleagues. Do you avoid processed foods and soda?

Nurse Entrepreneurs

Nurse Abnormalities

AUGUST 19, 2020

However, it’s important to realize that this is in reference to educating the masses and there should be an element of standardization. Prior to beginning NP school, I worked as a full time bedside nurse for three years, picking up loads of over time, in high acuity ICUs. Nursing is HARD.

Bedside nursing

Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 30, 2023

Nurse burnout is often brought on by everyday stressors like insufficient staffing, increased workload, high patient acuity, and even verbal or physical abuse from patients. As a result, Nurse burnout has been a significant factor in the number of Nurses leaving bedside Nursing or even the profession altogether.

Nursing Burnout

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. Regardless of the technology, nurses play essential roles throughout telemedicine, usually conveying or using insights or information.

Chief Nursing Officer

American Nurse

JULY 10, 2023

Unfortunately, these statistics haven’t wavered much and continue at a time when nurses are retiring and leaving the workforce for various reasons, including fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Some bedside nurses are exploring other opportunities within the profession, including leadership positions.

Leadership

Nurse Abnormalities

MAY 14, 2019

I get a lot of questions about which route to take, post-bachelors degree in nursing. The possibilities are endless and nursing education is confusing, to say the least. I want to clarify that I am a dual board certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist. They are self-starters.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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., Nurses leaving the bedside may result in units being left short staffed.

Nursing Burnout

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Hightower is now the office practice nurse for the Adolescent and Young Adult Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center , and their nursing path started with an undergrad degree in religious studies, a master’s degree in education, and some time as a high school science teacher in New York.

Health Literacy

Relias

APRIL 17, 2024

A clinical ladder is a career development model that recognizes and rewards nurses for their clinical expertise, professional growth, and leadership skills. A clinical ladder program provides nurses with a clear and structured path to advance their practice, education, and achievement within their organization.

Professional Development

American Nurse

APRIL 2, 2024

Takeaways Direct care nurses serve as significant teachers and role models for nursing students in the clinical setting. Building critical thinking skills is one of the most important outcomes in the clinical setting for nursing students.

Preceptors

Nurse Abnormalities

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I worked for three years full-time as a bedside nurse in Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care prior to grad school, and continued working full-time until the final year of my dual Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Nurse Specialist Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program.

Clinical Nurse Specialist

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

Each of the nursing teams you’ll read about on the following pages found opportunities to collaborate, strategize, and implement successful projects and programs with their interprofessional teammates to enhance patient care and improve outcomes, engage nurses, and ensure a healthy work environment for everyone.

Mental Health

Empowered Nurses

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Among the healthcare professionals at the forefront of patient care, nurses play a pivotal role in addressing and mitigating the risks associated with medical errors. They can occur at any point along the continuum of care, from the initial assessment and diagnosis to treatment, monitoring, and follow-up.

Patient Advocacy

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At Hackensack University Medical Center, a large, academic acute care hospital, which has received multiple Magnet® designations from the American Nurses Credential Center, the Night Council plays an essential role in the shared decision-making structure. Adv Med Educ Pract. J Nurses Prof Dev. 2022;13:167-75. Signa Vitae.

Self-Care

EDNurseasauras

AUGUST 10, 2021

My younger self, 19 years old when I started nursing school, would not have survived it today had I not taken the path I did. Aside from the usual AM care, PM care, pre-op prep, post-op care, back care, urinal and bedpan cleaning and meal delivering tasks I was sent to in-services meant for RN's, most of which were over my head.

LPN

Nursing Uncensored

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Right now, nurses are leaving the bedside at the speed of light. We know it’s happening, but it’s much more difficult to tease apart all the reasons why and make bedside nurses want to stay. High level leadership has one perspective, nursing managers have another and lastly, bedside nurses have their own considerations.

Bedside nursing