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American Journal of Nursing
April 2010
Mary Curry Narayan |
Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain.   |
Nursing Management
November 2011
Mary Ann Remshardt |
The Impact of Patient Literacy on Healthcare Practices With regard to patient teaching, how can healthcare personnel be certain that patients understand concepts basic to informed consent, hospital safety, dietary restrictions, and prescription information? |
American Journal of Nursing
November 2011 |
Supporting Family Caregivers: Teaching Essential Skills to Family Caregivers Nurses can use 'teachable moments' to help the transition from hospital to home care. |
American Family Physician
February 1, 2005
Searight & Gafford |
Cultural Diversity at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Family Physicians When considering therapeutic options, physicians should consider that members of many cultural groups prefer that family members, rather than patients, make treatment decisions. |
Nursing Management
October 2011
Edna Cadmus |
Your role in redesigning healthcare We need to rethink how we provide care and to understand the interconnectedness and the structure of healthcare by looking at it as a whole vs. the sum of its parts. As leaders we need to view the evidence as we rethink healthcare together. |
Nursing Management
September 2010
Richard Hader |
The evidence that isn't... Interpreting research When patients seek a healthcare practitioner for services, they believe that the delivered care is based on proven science. But reality is far from patient perception. In fact, most care is still based on anecdote, not evidence. |
Nurse Practitioner
March 2012
Baumann & Dang |
Helping Patients with Chronic Conditions Overcome Barriers to Self-Care Here are approaches nurse practitioners can use to reduce or eliminate barriers to self-care in adults with chronic conditions. |
Nursing Management
August 2009
Jenkins et al. |
Nursing the spirit The concept of spirituality in nursing is deeply rooted in the history of our profession, yet it's often overlooked in nursing practice. |
American Journal of Nursing
December 2011
Mary K. Walton |
Supporting Family Caregivers: Communicating with Family Caregivers A transformation is under way in acute care, at least in the United States, from provider-centered care to patient- and family-centered care. |
Nursing Management
September 2008
Richard Hader |
Strategies for profitable growth Experience has demonstrated that a focus on expense reduction alone won't sustain or improve financial stability in health care services. |
Job Journal
May 2, 2010
Arianna Jordan |
Nursing Careers come in Many Settings In sorting out your options for a nursing career, start with where you'd like to work. |
Managed Care
October 2002
MargaretAnn Cross |
Tracking Disparities in Care Having employer-sponsored benefits does not guarantee good service. Differences in race, education, and income are also factors. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2011
Carol Levine |
Supporting Family Caregivers: The Hospital Nurse's Assessment of Family Caregiver Needs It's important to assess and address a family caregiver's needs, strengths, and limitations. Nurses have the training, skills, and opportunities to carry out these assessments. |
Salon.com
May 2, 2002
Fran Smith |
Bush's band-aid approach A prestigious, congressionally mandated report has found that minority Americans receive glaringly inferior medical care. The Bush response: Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day... |
ifeminists
October 19, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Cultural Competence: Coming To a School Near You? Oregon's Senate Bill 50 states teaching cultural competence would not be a request, but a requirement. In short, teachers would be required to advocate a specific vision of social justice to be licensed. |
Job Journal
January 18, 2009 |
Career Snapshot: Registered Nurse Registered nurses have a wealth of career opportunities to choose from. |
Nursing Management
March 2010
Becker & Schmidtke |
All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2011 |
Strategies for Feeding Patients with Dementia An overview of the difficulties associated with feeding those with dementia and suggestions for caregivers to help overcome these challenges. |
Nursing Management
July 2007
Coyle et al. |
Dealing with Disaster Terrorism and naturally occurring catastrophic events provide fertile ground for nursing emergency preparedness, including deployment strategies. Are you ready to respond? |
Nursing Management
December 2011
Brenda Kulhanek |
EMR development...Always be prepared Implementing an electronic medical record system offers countless benefits: major healthcare savings, reduced medical errors, improved quality of healthcare, and improved health. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2008 |
Wandering in Hospitalized Older Adults: Identifying Risk is the First Step in This Approach to Preventing Wandering in Patients with Dementia. People who have dementia are at risk for wandering away from the safety of the care setting and becoming lost in the community. Here are three critical elements of prevention and action. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
April 1, 2011 |
Bridging the HCP-Patient Gap Here's what's necessary to bridge the gap between the patient revolution and healthcare provider in the 21st century. |
CRM
June 2011
Koa Beck |
Can Mobile Help Clarify Confusion Over Reforms? Healthcare reform has thrown everything up for question. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2005
Gregory Juckett |
Cross-Cultural Medicine Cultural competency is an essential skill for family physicians because of increasing ethnic diversity among patient populations. |
American Journal of Nursing
April 2012
Smeltzer et al. |
Original Research: Interactions of People with Disabilities and Nursing Staff During Hospitalization Inadequate primary health care and screening have been identified as serious issues for people with disabilities, but little evidence exists on the nursing care of this population when hospitalized. |
Job Journal
July 3, 2005
Julia Hollister |
Nursing: The Pulse of California Healthcare Desperate hospital recruiters up the ante with signing bonuses for RNs and LPNs. In fact, many hospitals, under pressure to lower costs, are using licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) in place of registered nurses wherever allowed. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2009
Weinberg et al. |
Original Research: 'It Depends': Medical Residents' Perspectives on Working with Nurses We sought to determine the quality of the nurse-physician relationship by examining the communication and interaction between nurses and residents from the residents' perspective. |
Job Journal
January 15, 2006
Julia Hollister |
State of Diversity: A Work in Progress People of color have made giant strides over the past 40 year, but employment opportunity still isn't as equal as it could be. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2008 |
How to Try This: Working with Families of Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia Families provide a considerable amount of informal care and support for older adults living with dementia. And when an older adult with dementia is hospitalized, family caregivers should be seen as important sources of information and included as valuable members of the health care team. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2013
Brad Klontz |
Understanding Needs of Multi-Cultural Clients Your clients come from a host of different cultures, whether you realize it or not. What are you missing? |
Nursing Management
January 2011
Dawn Chiarenza |
The CNO/ROI Factor of Accreditation In a time of healthcare reimbursement changes and budget cuts, CNOs seeking Magnet recognition must be able to emphasize benefits to organizational leadership-including return on investment. |
Nursing Management
April 2009
Sharon H. Pappas |
Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2011
O'Lynn & Krautscheid |
Original Research: 'How Should I Touch You?': A Qualitative Study of Attitudes on Intimate Touch in Nursing Care This study sought to elicit the attitudes of laypersons on intimate touch provided by nurses in general and male nurses in particular. |
Nursing Management
May 2009
Dawn M. Pope et al. |
MRSA Reduction: Myths and Facts To prevent the spread of MRSA, organizations must commit to implementing evidence-based guidelines and providing ongoing education to address misconceptions and individual attitudes. |
ifeminists
August 17, 2008
Wendy McElroy |
Cultural Competence and Your Child Cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, "What is it, and how could it affect my children?" |
Knowledge@Wharton
August 27, 2003 |
Code Blue: Combating Rising Healthcare Costs Calls for Strong Medicine It's been said many times over that the U.S. healthcare industry is a sick patient in search of a cure. The metaphor is a grim reflection of how the country is coping with an aging population, rising costs and an inefficient healthcare delivery system. |
Nursing
July 2009
Penny S. Brooke |
Legally speaking...When can you say NO? As a nurse, accepting responsibilities that are beyond the scope of your license or skill level can have serious consequences for you, your patients, and your nursing career. |
Nursing Management
September 2009
Richard Hader |
Six Ways to Zero Defects Care delivery that's safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable is the challenge set forth by the Institute of Medicine in an effort to reduce medical-related errors |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2008
Evans & Cotter |
Avoiding Restraints in Patients with Dementia Understanding, prevention, and management are the keys to reducing restraint use. |
CRM
August 1, 2009
Lauren McKay |
Healing the Sick Facing regulatory requirements, spiraling costs, and an aging (and ailing) customer base, the healthcare industry looks to CRM to balance a pair of age-old doctrines: First, do no harm - and physician, heal thyself. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2008
Messecar et al. |
The Family Preferences Index: Helping Family Members Who Want to Participate in the Care of a Hospitalized Older Adult. Researcher Hong Li developed the FPRI in 2000 after analysis of in-depth interviews with patients, families, and nurses and many hours of observing hospitalized older adults and their family caregivers. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2007
Terry Fulmer |
How to Try This: Fulmer SPICES Fulmer SPICES is a framework for assessing older adults. This assessment, done regularly, can lead to the prevention and treatment of common conditions. |
Nursing Management
November 2010
Penprase et al. |
Preoperative communication to improve safety: A literature review Nurses should take the lead in championing the introduction and assessment of preoperative briefings, and in supporting other perioperative personnel who may be tasked with implementing them. |
AFP eWire
November 19, 2012
Michele Varela |
Turning Challenges Into Opportunities: Fundraising in a Diverse Community It isn't just the community of Scarborough that will face diversity challenges. All of us will. |
Nursing Management
April 2011
Deborah E. Trautman |
Healthcare Reform: 1 Year Later A year after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the nation remains divided. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
May/Jun 2013
Mauldin & Maddron |
Medical Office Momentum The Affordable Care Act takes some risk out of healthcare property investment. |
American Journal of Nursing
October 2005
Charlotte Thomas-Hawkins |
Self-Management of Chronic Kidney Disease Effective management of this disease requires the patient to be the principal illness manager and this skill requires the nurses guidance and support. |
Job Journal
April 23, 2006
Julia Hollister |
Prospective Nursing Students Need Patience Demand for nurses is growing, but so are training-school waiting lists. There is hope, however. |
American Journal of Nursing
September 2011
Adams & Tolich |
Original Research: Blood Transfusion: The Patient's Experience This study therefore sought to identify how well patients understand the role of blood transfusion in their treatment and whether it causes them discomfort. |
Job Journal
June 24, 2007
Julia Hollister |
RNs Take Their Pick of Perks, Pay & Programs In short supply, RNs enjoy signing bonuses and generous perks. |
