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By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN May 7 2016
Safety in the Healthcare Workplace: How Safe Do You Feel? Safety is something we think about constantly in our daily lives. We look both ways when we cross the street, we buckle our seatbelts when we get into the car, and we put on helmets when we participate in outdoor activities, such as biking...
By: Susan Mascioli, MS, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ, LSSBB May 6 2016
Every Day in Every Way As health care professionals, there are few things more agonizing than listening to a grief stricken mother describe how her young daughter, bravely fighting cancer, died during a hospital stay as a result of delays and failed communication...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 4 2016
Creating a Culture of Safety: Blog Series for Nurses Week 2016 Happy National Nurses Week! As we approach the celebration this year, I’d like to take some time to share all that we have coming up for the week and into the rest of the month. There’s a lot of buzz online about what a Nurses Week...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Jan 12 2016
Is there a Cure for Gun Violence? There’s no doubt that gun control is a hotly debated topic today. Supporters of tight gun control argue that access to guns is too easy. Those on the opposition believe it is unconstitutional and that despite a rise in gun ownership, gun...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Sep 25 2015
National Antibiotic Initiative The inappropriate and unnecessary overuse of antibiotics within hospital and outpatient settings has led to the rise of drug-resistant strains of bacteria over the past several decades. These “super” bugs cause 2 million illnesses and...
By: Sep 17 2015
Never Events and Nursing – Prevention is Key When it comes to never events and nursing, “prevention is key,” explains Janet Thomas MS, RN-BC. As our manager of continuing education accreditation and compliance, Thomas recognizes the vital role nurses play against medical errors...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 12 2015
Banishing the Bully Among Us It seems odd to end Nurses Week with a post about bullying – after all, when thinking about celebrating our week, why be a “downer?” Hasn’t there been enough talk and articles about this ugly side of nursing? But like...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 11 2015
End-of-Life in Acute Care In today’s society, we have seen many great advances in medicine, science, and technology that have resulted in an aging population with chronic illnesses. Often times, these issues require frequent or prolonged acute care admissions. With...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 10 2015
Moral Distress When I think about moral distress, I’d describe it as a gnawing, distraught feeling born of perceived injustice.  The underlying catalysts are highly variable and include lack of essential resources necessary to provide the standard of...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 9 2015
An Ethical Perspective on Elder Abuse Nurses have a duty to report and to protect vulnerable populations including older adults. Yet it can be difficult for nurses to intervene successfully or to feel that they have made a difference in clients’ lives when older adults choose to...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 8 2015
Informed Consent: An Ethical Way of Nursing As nurses, we deal with informed consent a lot—on admission to a hospital/clinic or before a procedure/surgery. Nurses typically are assigned the task of obtaining and witnessing written consent for healthcare treatment. I’ll never...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 7 2015
Ouch! Safely keeping patients pain-free A few weeks ago my husband was in the emergency room with a broken rib, which resulted from a fall. His nurse was very attentive to his need for pain management. He had never had morphine before and after his second dose, he asked the nurse &ldquo...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 6 2015
A Tale of Two Patients In 1859, Charles Dickens wrote the book, "The Tale of Two Cities," which was a comparison of life in London and Paris and compared life of the aristocracy versus life of the peasantry in those two cities. Throughout my 30 plus years of...
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