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By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C & Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C, Dec 11 2019
Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Special Nurse in your Life Do you know a nurse who took the extra time to make someone’s else’s day better by providing just the right amount of care? That nurse may have moved a patient closer to the path of recovery, eased the suffering of one’s life, or...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Nov 27 2019
Thank You and Good-Bye I’ve written before about a special nurse that came into our lives many years ago – over 18 years ago, in fact. I’m sad to say that Nurse L died earlier this month after battling brain cancer. While we did keep in touch through...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 15 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Keeping Pace with a Changing Healthcare System: Embracing Whole-Person Care “Nursing is more art than science. I encourage people, ‘Don’t run from that. Run towards it.’”CASEY HOBBS, RN, Director of Nursing/Host & Co-Creator, Nurse Talk Radio, San Francisco, CA We know that nursing is...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 1 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Elevating Nurse Impact Through Lifelong Learning  “If I went back to school, there was so much more I could do…and where could I do the most good.”MEGGIN TALLMAN, RN, BSN, Pediatric ICU - Children’s of Alabama and Mercy Ships volunteer, Birmingham, AL   As...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Oct 21 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Navigating a Changing Profession “We face as nurses huge challenges and how do we take advantage of the technology we have without losing the art of nursing.”STUART FISK, CRNP, Director, Center for Inclusion Health - Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA  As...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Jul 18 2019
Top 5 Things Nurses Need to Address Nursing Shortage As baby boomers age and eventually leave the nursing workforce, we can expect to experience a significant shortage of nurses. Researchers project that one million registered nurses will retire by 2030 (Buerhaus et al, 2017). Think about the years...
By: Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky, PhD, RN, CCRN, CEN, ACNS-BC, FAEN, and Kathy Easter, MSN, RN, CCRN-K Jun 24 2019
Visionary Nurse Leader - Who Will You Nominate? The following excerpt was published in Nursing Management’s January 2019 issue. This winning 2018 Richard Hader Visionary Leader Award entry was submitted by Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky, PhD, RN, CCRN, CEN, ACNS-BC, FAEN, and Kathy...
By: Lynne Centrella Rudderow, MSN, RN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, CCE Jun 5 2019
The Best Gift... My amazing niece graduated high school this past weekend and like thousands of other eager 18-year-olds, she will be heading off to college in the fall. The special thing about this situation though is that she will be starting her nursing career!...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN May 28 2019
The Caring Art of Nursing “Maybe this one moment, with this one patient is the very reason were here on earth at this time.”-Dr. Jean Watson   I recently had the opportunity to hear Dr. Jean Watson give a presentation to honor Nurses’ Week. In Dr...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN May 12 2019
Elevating Our Nursing Profession As I pondered what I would write for this blog, I kept going back to a chapter I wrote for the commemorative edition of Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, that has just been published to celebrate Nurses...
By: Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN May 11 2019
Evidence-Based Practice: Something to Celebrate (Really!) As we think about reasons to celebrate nurses’ work during Nurses Week, we shouldn’t overlook significant changes that have changed how we approach our work and that have, I think, done much to improve our credibility as a profession...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN May 10 2019
Celebrating our Progress as a Profession As nurses, we have many accomplishments to celebrate. Just consider the progress that has occurred since Florence Nightingale set the foundations for nursing as an art and science in the 19th century. Following Florence’s example, nurses...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 9 2019
Celebrate Daily Wins in Nursing Is your employer planning anything special for Nurses Week? Do you typically get a small gift or token – perhaps a pen or water bottle? While we all can agree that adequate staffing and safe work environments would be much more valuable...
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