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Nursing Certification: Achieving Excellence and Professionalism

Daily Nurse

A 2021 Journal of Nursing Administration study states, “ Nurse specialty certification is ’a mechanism for validation or formal recognition by documenting individual nurses’ knowledge, skills, and abilities specific to their specialty’.

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Top Nursing Jobs Outside the Hospital

Every Nurse

It May Soon Be a Requirement Why an RN-to-BSN With No Pre Reqs Can Hurt Your Career 6 Reasons Nurses Quit Develop These Nursing Skills to Maximize Patient Care 4 Elements of Time Management New Nurses Need to Know After receiving your hard-won nursing degree and license, you, like most new nurses, rightfully feel excited about your future.

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Home Infusion Nurse Says Colleague put Patient at Risk

Nurse.com

A home healthcare infusion nurse is concerned about one of her RN colleagues. This colleague documented that she infused a medication for a home care patient in contradiction to the directions on the infusion bag from the home infusion pharmacy. Document your observations, patient care, and other treatment accurately and completely.

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Nursing Certification: Achieving Excellence and Professionalism

Minority Nurse

A 2021 Journal of Nursing Administration study states, “ Nurse specialty certification is ’a mechanism for validation or formal recognition by documenting individual nurses’ knowledge, skills, and abilities specific to their specialty’.

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Home Infusion Nurse Says Colleague put Patient at Risk

Nurse.com

A home healthcare infusion nurse is concerned about one of her RN colleagues. This colleague documented that she infused a medication for a home care patient in contradiction to the directions on the infusion bag from the home infusion pharmacy. Document your observations, patient care, and other treatment accurately and completely.

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Travel Nurses Need To Be Prepared for Anything

Nurse.com

Make sure you have all [documents] together when you file your taxes. In a 2019 study published in the Journal of Nursing Administration , researchers from Arizona’s Banner Health identified more streamlined, organized onboarding as an area of needed improvement. “You “Pay attention to your paycheck stubs,” she said.

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RN With Family Crisis Put on Leave for Patient Abandonment

Nurse.com

She left work immediately without administering medications, without counting narcotics, and without documenting her nursing notes for her patients. The next day, the RN’s director of nursing put her on administrative leave due to the RN abandoning her patients. The Director of Nursing’s Conduct.

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