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By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 19 2024
Roadside Rescue – Performing CPR Off-Duty It was 6 pm on a cool spring evening when I began my commute to work at a large medical center in Philadelphia. I merged into heavy traffic on the expressway. Having worked in the neurotrauma ICU the night before, I was thinking about the patients...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Nov 12 2024
Giving Back: The Nurse-Family Partnership At 20, Fernanda faced overwhelming challenges: a strained home life, an unplanned pregnancy, and the pressure of supporting her family. Determined to complete her education, she re-enrolled in high school while navigating financial instability and...
By: Jennifer Collins, RN, MSN, CRNP, AG-ACNP-BC Nov 8 2024
My Story of Becoming a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner: Driven by Purpose If you asked me when I was five years old what I wanted to be when I grew up the answer likely would have been a professional soccer player. Even as I approached the end of my high school career, I truly had no idea what I wanted to do with my...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 6 2024
Countering Negativity about Nursing on Social Media Platforms Negativity about nursing on social media can be quite prominent, often reflecting the unique challenges faced in the profession. I stumbled across a few examples on social media recently. A new graduate oncology nurse posts on Reddit, “Does...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 22 2024
5 Mindful Breathing Exercises: Simple Techniques for Everyone In our complex fast-paced world, we often overlook one of the most fundamental aspects of our health: our breathing. Proper breathing not only supports our physical health but also enhances mental clarity and emotional well-being. Whether you'...
By: Jennifer Collins, MSN, CRNP, AG-ACNP-BC Oct 4 2024
Five Tips To Achieve Work-Life Balance as a Nurse Nursing is a gratifying but highly challenging and demanding profession with many physical and emotional demands, complex and varying responsibilities, management of high-stress situations, and constant education and adaptation to changes in the...
By: Elizabeth Tomaszewski, DNP, RN, CRNP, CNE, CCRN, ACNP-BC, ACNPC Oct 1 2024
Who Wants to Precept the New Nurse? How Experienced Nurses Can Better Help New Graduates. Graduate nurses are coming into the profession at quite a challenging time and with less preparation for clinical practice upon graduation (Gregg, M., 2023). Although there are residency programs in some hospitals and preceptorships in others to...
By: Jennifer Collins, MSN, RN, AGACNP-BC Sep 23 2024
Six Healthy Tips for Travel Nurses Travel nurses lead an exciting but hectic life: ever-changing routines, shifts, and workplaces. Maintaining a well-balanced diet with such a demanding and dynamic schedule can prove challenging! Here are some tips to ensuring a healthy, well...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Sep 4 2024
Reflecting on 20+ Years with Lippincott NursingCenter We all know how quickly things change in nursing and healthcare. New evidence emerges, guidelines and recommendations are updated, and changes are incorporated into our practice. The growth and changes of Lippincott NursingCenter (LNC) have...
By: Elizabeth Tomaszewski, DNP, RN, CRNP, CNE, CCRN, ACNP-BC, ACNPC Sep 1 2024
Reinstill Joy in Nursing You’ve always wanted to be a nurse. Nursing school felt like boot camp, but you made it. You scored your dream job, but now you are getting close to the end of orientation and never felt more unprepared to care for these sick patients on...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Aug 1 2024
A Fresh Start for the Coming Season This time of year brings a fresh beginning for many. Whether you are welcoming students into the classroom or into the clinical setting, welcoming new nurses to the unit or floor, or starting school or a new job yourself, this is a time when the...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Jun 1 2024
Let’s Support our New Nurses In June, July, and August, healthcare begins its yearly metamorphosis. Newly graduated nurses, physicians, and others in allied health join the ranks as healthcare professionals. Some of us who have been in practice for a while, may think about...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Apr 1 2024
Nursing Workforce Numbers are Improving: 4 Ways to Maintain the Momentum If you’re like me, you look for good news about the nursing profession. We finally received some good news from researchers tracking the registered nurse (RN) workforce! In a recent study by Auerbach et al. (2024), we are finally seeing an...
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