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Cultivating Year-Round LGBTQ+ Affirming Care

Diversity Nursing

We see rainbow flags adorning hospitals, clinics, and communities, and it's a wonderful display of solidarity. But as Nurses, our commitment to providing safe, respectful, and affirming care for our LGBTQ+ patients must extend far beyond a single month. can open the door to respectful communication.

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Nursing Care Plan: Guide with Example & Writing Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Care plans are a way to strategically approach and streamline the nursing process. They also facilitate effective communication in a nursing team. Lets review the fundamentals of a nursing care plan and how to create one, step by step. Table of Contents What Is a Nursing Care Plan? What Are the Components of a Care Plan?

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Flipped Classroom

Penn Nursing

Fall 2024 Read on to find out how Penn Nursing faculty, alumni, and students who have found themselves as patients have emerged with new outlooks on nursing and health care. As I navigated treatment—chemotherapy, surgery, and countless scans—I found myself on the other side of the health care system.

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A Day in the Life: Staff Nurse in the Critical Care Float Pool of a Children’s Hospital

Daily Nurse

In the heart of a bustling children’s hospital, where the walls resonate with the sounds of hope, laughter, and sometimes tears, lies the intensive care unit (ICU)—a realm where the stakes are extraordinarily high, and each moment is imbued with profound significance. Giving back to her community. Working in pediatrics.

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Deafblindness and health advocacy

American Nurse

Patients with moderate-to-severe visual and hearing impairments (deafblindness) need their nurses to understand their needs and provide safe care. Depending on cognitive ability and language development before acquiring deafblindness, people with this condition can communicate fluently.

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Integrating Holistic Approaches in Minority Nursing Practices

Minority Nurse

All nurses must care for themselves and infuse wellness into their daily work. However, it might be even more essential for minority nurses to integrate holistic approaches into their careers. Holistic nursing combines Western medicinal practices alongside complementary and alternative care solutions.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Kimberly Williams

Minority Nurse

She started in health care as a front desk clerk and worked up to her current position as the Director of Nursing Operations at the Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. We deliver compassionate, high-quality care to our young patients and their families. Kimberly M.