When her dad was too sick to leave UAB Hospital, Sarah Williams brought her wedding to him with the help of the team providing his care.
The Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation (RNF) of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) is soliciting a special call for research proposals that focus on Care Transitions; the coordination or transition of care and services from one provider to another, one health care facility to another, or from a health care facility to home in a rehabilitation patient population.
The Value of Nursing in Building a Culture of Health (Part 2): Helping Employers Create Safe and Productive Workplaces, the latest in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Charting Nursing’s Future series of policy briefs, describes nurse-designed initiatives to create a culture of health at workplaces across the nation.
Penn Nursing to host the Philadelphia launch of a major, new report, “Women & Health: The Key for Sustainable Development,” issued by the Commission on Women & Health, a partnership between The Lancet, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, & the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
Patricia D’Antonio, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been appointed director of Penn Nursing’s Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. D’Antonio, the Killebrew-Censits Term Professor in Undergraduate Education and chair of the Department of Family and Community Health, previously served as the Center’s associate director. Her appointment was effective October 21, 2015.
Delirium may begin as a serious complication for up to 90 percent of patients who are critically ill, but its psychological effects often linger after they regain awareness, according to interviews with those who lived through the experience. A study in the American Journal of Critical Care identifies overarching themes based on participants’ personal perspectives about their experience with delirium.
The Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) membership elected Dr. Cheryl Lehman, PhD, RN, CNS-BC, RN-BC, CRRN, to serve as president of the association for the 2015-2016 year.
Decorated humanitarian and outspoken advocate for women’s rights, Dr. Denis Mukwege, will receive the 2016 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health for his work in treating and highlighting the plight of women in the war-torn eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The award comes with a $100,000 cash prize. Mukwege will receive the honor during an event at the University of Pennsylvania on March 24, 2016.
Guidelines From the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Specifically Cite the CHSE as a Recommended Certification
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN), Inc. has published revised Competencies in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing.
The PRN Course is an intensive, online course covering the major areas of care that a rehabilitation nurse provides and is conveniently accessible from anywhere.
Since the University of Louisville School of Nursing began a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing program in 2005, many of its graduates have started careers as nursing faculty at colleges and universities throughout the nation.
Of more than three million licensed practicing nurses in the United States, Michael D. Fallacaro, CRNA, DNS, FAAN, has been chosen as one of the select 163 nurses to be named a 2015 fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), joining more than 2,300 nursing leaders who make up the academy.
Amy Vogelsmeier, an associate professor in the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing (SSON), will be inducted as a fellow into the prestigious American Academy of Nursing (AAN) Oct. 17 at the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. As an AAN fellow, Vogelsmeier joins the nursing profession’s most accomplished leaders, including association executives, university presidents, hospital administrators, nurse consultants, researchers and entrepreneurs.
A new study published in the prestigious scientific journal Health Services Research shows that Magnet hospitals nationally accredited for nursing excellence have higher patient ratings of care than other hospitals. The study led by Dr. Witkoski-Stimpfel at NYUCN and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research suggests that hospitals seeking to improve patient satisfaction, and qualify for new financial incentives, would be well advised to consider investing in nursing excellence.
More than half of nurses who work with organ transplant patients in the United States experience high levels of emotional exhaustion, a primary sign of burnout, according to a study published by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. In addition, 52% of the nurses surveyed reported feeling low levels of personal accomplishment in their life-saving work, according to findings published recently in “Progress in Transplantation,” a journal of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Palliative care provides proven benefits to critically ill patients with life-threatening illnesses, yet barriers to palliative care consultations prevent many patients and their families from discussing it with their team of healthcare providers, according to an article in Critical Care Nurse.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University had previously found that mothers of children dependent on life-supporting medical technology are at risk for depression. In a new study, the researchers discovered factors that significantly contribute to the condition.
The ethnic and cultural makeup of the United States is rapidly diversifying, with the U.S. Census Bureau projecting that 35 percent of the U.S. population will consist of ethnic minorities by 2020, up from 28 percent in 2010. This growth, coupled with a sharp spike in the number of individuals entering the healthcare system under the Affordable Care Act, means nurses are encountering more patients with greater cultural disparity—requiring a higher level of cultural sensitivity.
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is now accepting applications for the next cycle of its research grants. This year, $160,000 in research funding is available to support inquiry that drives change in high acuity and critical care nursing practice. Applications are due by Oct. 30, 2015.
Rural Alabama is a long way from the high-tech UAB Hospital, where students in the School of Nursing learn state-of-the-art patient care — and that’s the point of practicing individualized, community care
Simple melodies help nurses remember medicines for treating HIV in pregnant patients.
Hospitalized patients deemed at risk for falls may not follow prevention strategies depending on their perceptions of personal risk, according to a study in the American Journal of Critical Care. An inpatient survey about fall-related attitudes included the patients’ ratings of their confidence to act without falling and their degree of concern about falling.
Hopkins Nurse-led partnership offers free online learning modules meant to improve teamwork on patient care
Knowing which risks may come into play before or during surgery is especially important where children are concerned. Implementation of a screening questionnaire detailed in the latest AANA Journal helps anesthesia professionals identify children with symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) before undergoing a general anesthetic.
In the 1940s, Johns Hopkins nurse Bertha Louise Bloomer Johnson carried healthcare to the hinterlands
The Association for Rehab Nurses launches the new ReSTART online recovery resource.
Increasingly, medical colleagues and funders endorse or even insist on nurses’ place at the decision maker’s table.
A new study conducted by RN Work Project, and published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, finds that the higher risk is associated with working longer hours and higher than average workloads. Amy Witkoski Stimpfel, PhD, RN, assistant professor at the College of Nursing, New York University, led the research team. The RN Work Project is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Occupational and environmental health nursing is the specialty practice that provides for and delivers health and safety programs and services to workers, worker populations and community groups.
More than 500 nurses participated in a recent summit -- hosted by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses -- to discuss the importance of deterring burnout and creating solutions to address the issue in clinical practice.
An article in the AACN journal, Critical Care Nurse, describes the demographic, unit and organizational factors that may contribute to nurses’ professional quality of life. It also establishes the prevalence of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in adult, pediatric and neonatal critical care nurses.
Other topics include nursing research, treating hep C and HIV, and more
The NYU researchers have designed a virtual IPE curriculum in which students were paired with a virtual team member to learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and the delivery of care.
AANA releases updated Mobile Information Technology position statement in support of Washington Post article about cell phone use in operating rooms
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Penn Nursing Research Findings Show Nurses are Key to Kaiser Permanente Hospital Success
A workshop at the University of California San Francisco helped critical care nurses improve their palliative care communication skills, according to an article in the American Journal of Critical Care. The article describes an educational intervention to enhance bedside nurses’ communication skills in addressing patient and family goals of care, communicating with physicians regarding the needs of family members and participating in a family meeting.
While the number of graduates from family or adult nurse practitioner programs continues to rise, student applications to pediatric and neonatal nurse practitioner programs are falling.
Johns Hopkins dean responds on ACA: Focus on patient care, health all through life is right up the alley of a new breed of caregiver,
Topics include: treating advanced skin cancer, big data and bioenergy, cancer research, 10 reasons to eat quinoa, sleep issues in the nursing field, advances in cancer surgery, genes for sleep, brain receptor for cocaine addiction, and nano imaging on insect adaptations.
Ongoing webinars from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses have quickly proven to be an effective tool for moving new findings and evidence-based recommendations into nursing practice at the bedside.
About one-third of patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) will develop delirium, a condition that lengthens hospital stays and substantially increases one’s risk of dying in the hospital, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers appearing in the British Medical Journal.
Registration is open for the 41st Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) Annual Educational Conference on September 30-October 3, 2015, in New Orleans, which provides a forum for knowledge sharing and engagement that features the finest educators and thought leaders in the world of rehabilitation nursing. No matter the type of setting, rehabilitation nursing principles and practical clinical topics are the same for all nurses working with people experiencing a traumatic injury or chronic illness.
An article in the June 2015 issue of Critical Care Nurse reviews post-acute transitional care as provided at a skilled nursing facility in western New York and examines the individual roles of various interdisciplinary team members, including progressive care nurses.
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With demand for primary care expected to increase sharply over the next five years– due to passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), population growth and aging – the role of advanced-practice nurses or nurse practitioners (NPs) is also increasing. But a new study illustrates how federal policies influence the NP workforce and practice, and how misalignment of those policies with state mandates can affect workforce supply and patient access to care.
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