Program boosts positive emotions in healthcare workers
By
Kristen Fischer
Jun 27, 2024
Systemic and organizational changes are vital to help healthcare workers manage stress and burnout, but workers also are looking for programs to help them develop individual resilience. An online, self-guided...
Looking ahead: Will you become a resident?
By
Michael DeFrancesco
Jul 31, 2013
We should always work under the premise “what if this were me or a loved one?”
The importance of unlearning
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Jul 10, 2018
Anyone who knows me knows that I love teaching. And while it is one of my greatest pleasures on Earth, it is also one of my greatest frustrations.
Nurses’ vital role in the work of therapists
By
Kristy Wikum
Jun 17, 2022
I have always had an appreciation for nurses and nursing staff — not only because my sister is a nurse but because of the vast amount of work they do so well, each and every day. With National Nurse’s...
Is this job demeaning? That’s up for a judge to decide
By
Kimberly Marselas
Feb 15, 2023
An appellate judge in Illinois is in a position to right a very old wrong, to elevate the status of nursing home caregivers — and do so with legal authority.
Isolated nurses and the crisis of LTC identity
By
Elizabeth Newman
Oct 25, 2017
A new English study is both interesting and concerning related to long-term care nurses. These nurses feel isolated and excluded compared to others in the healthcare profession, and that can have big implications...
Don’t let them down
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Apr 17, 2018
The next time you feel like pulling out your hair if “just one more person puts on that call light,” remember that, as nurses, we’re No. 1 in the hearts and minds of the public out there.
Why would anyone become a nurse?
Mar 27, 2015
Years of education, long hours, physical and emotional demands: These characterize what an individual can look forward to when nursing is their chosen profession. So what makes it his or her choice and...
Don’t be like ‘The Walking Dead’
By
Jacqueline Vance, RNC, CDONA/LTC
Nov 01, 2016
Sometimes we get so bogged down in what we are doing that we forget why we were doing it in the first place. Unfortunately, my favorite TV show doesn’t seem to realize this. Don’t do the same.
Profile: Faith in nursing and family
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 01, 2014
As the youngest of four children in a small rural town in Minnesota, Neal Larson grew up in a tight-knit circle where hard work and putting family first were cherished values.