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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Jul 23 2024
Keeping Up During Downtime The CrowdStrike software update on July 18, 2024, had far-reaching impacts. As a cybersecurity company, many industries – from corporations and financial institutions to airlines and healthcare organizations – rely on CrowdStrike to...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Jun 16 2024
The Role and Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Nursing Is there a place for artificial intelligence (AI) in nursing? The position statement from the American Nurses Association (ANA) emphasizes that “the appropriate use of AI in nursing practice supports and enhances the core values and ethical...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Feb 13 2024
How Do I Prepare My Patient for an MRI? If you are a nurse working in an acute care setting, you’ve likely sent patients for diagnostic imaging. One of the most common radiologic tests is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a non-invasive exam that produces three-dimensional images...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Aug 15 2023
Nursing Drug Handbook App: A few of my favorite things I was thrilled when I learned that Nursing Drug Handbook launched an app this year! While I do love the touch and feel of the book, I know how quickly drug information is updated. And while caring for patients in our clinic, an up-to-date drug...
By: Elizabeth Wirth-Tomaszewski, DNP, RN, CRNP, CCRN, ACNP-BC, ACNPC Dec 13 2022
Nurses as Influencers: Extending Professionalism to the Social Media World Almost half of the world’s population uses social media in one form or another, which has led to an increase in those who produce personal content providing one’s own point of view (Vukušić Rukavina et al., 2021). Nurses are becoming...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Oct 15 2020
Nursing, Tech, and Hackathons: A Conversation with Molly McCarthy, MBA, RN-BC Molly K. McCarthy MBA, RN-BC is the Managing Director, US Provider/Plans and Chief Nursing Officer for Microsoft. I had the pleasure of speaking with Molly about her journey in nursing, her work for Microsoft, nurses and board membership, and the...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 10 2020
Is Blockchain the New Pathway to Credentialing? For health care providers, credentialing is an important step in establishing a clinical practice and is critical to secure reimbursement from insurance companies and other third-party payers. Professional credentialing is complicated, expensive...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 4 2019
A Nurse's Review of Activity Trackers: Top Picks for Monitoring Your Health I am always struck by the amount of people who are using wearable technology such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, but I didn’t know whether something like that would be right for me. At first, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to add...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Sep 9 2019
mHealth Apps for Nurses Page reviewed and updated: August 2023 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2018) supports the “development of mobile medical applications (apps) that improve health care and provide consumers and healthcare professionals with valuable...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Aug 30 2019
The Power of Informal Conversations and Bold Relationships I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Connie Delaney, Professor & Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. We spoke about her nursing career, her current work and the importance of nurses getting involved as...
By: Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-C, AGACNP-C Jan 4 2019
The Leadless Pacemaker: A Game Changer Reviewed and updated by Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-C, AGACNP-C: April 11, 2024 Approximately 200,000 pacemakers are implanted annually in the United States, and due to an aging population and increasing pacing indications, this number is...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN May 11 2018
Think Differently about Innovation in Nursing Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN Executive Director of Continuing Education Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research & PracticeMy colleague, Denise Felsenstein, tested an intervention during her Doctor of Nursing practice...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Aug 31 2016
Introducing Your NursingCenter.com Dashboard! You may or may not have yet noticed that we’ve begun implementing more personalized features here on NursingCenter.com. Take some time to explore your very own dashboard of content related to your area(s) of practice! Here’s how&hellip...
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