Creating Positive Employee Morale Is Up to You

Improving employee morale in nursing is important for our teams to function effectively, for facilities to run efficiently, for our patients to be treated with dignity, and for ourselves to be able to function with excellence.

It starts with you!

Everyday Easy Ways for Nurses to Burn More Calories

The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise at least 5 days per week. If you don’t exercise that may seem like a lot, but here’s the good news- even if you divide that time up into smaller chunks or segments, you will still get the same benefit. Here are four easy ways to burn more calories throughout your day!

Physical activity is anything that makes you move your body.

Informatics Spotlight: EMR vs. EHR

As healthcare reform moves forward and the call for systems to become more integrated, nurses and healthcare workers alike will be forced to embrace new charting and electronic mandates for more and more health agencies that are just over the horizon. And this includes differentiating EMR from EHR.

Advantages and disadvantages of going electronic.

Opportunities for Nurses as Educators

Today there are many educator roles that nurses are fulfilling. The paramount role is nurses being patient educators. Further, institutions have nurse education departments which provide continuing education for the staff. Consequently, all nurses have the foundation for moving into more advanced nurse educator roles. There are many opportunities for nurses in the teaching arena out there.

Addressing the nurse educator shortage.

Recognizing Elder Abuse

As elders become more physically frail, they are less able to stand up to bullying and/or fight back if attacked. They may not see or hear as well, or think as clearly as they used to, leaving openings for unscrupulous people to take advantage of them. Every year many elders are abused in their own homes, in relatives’ homes, and even in facilities responsible for their care.

We, as nurses, have a responsibility to intervene and to protect these victims.

Déjà You: Dealing with Familiar Faces in Nursing

You’re familiar with déjà vu, the vague but persistent feeling that you’ve experienced something before? Nurses have their own version of this condition, called déjà you. It’s the vague but persistent feeling that you know your patient, but you can’t remember exactly how you met them. Soon, you become acclimated to the idea that people you know, intimately or casually, may at some time need medical attention.

And you are that medical attention.

Benefits of Becoming a Health and Wellness Nurse Coach

The amount of dedication provided by nurses is amazing. We are always there for our patients, sometimes going above and beyond our call of duty because we enjoy what we do. But what if you could take the benefits of nursing up a notch by using a more direct approach in helping our clients live a healthier lifestyles?

Join a unique area of nursing.

5 Common Marketing Blunders that Health Care Providers Make

Most health care providers who have a clinical practice, or any type of business where they rely on clients, will need to market in order to sustain and grow that practice and business. While knowing how to market is essential, it's also just as valuable to know what you should not be doing when you are marketing.

Poor customer service will definitely get people talking, but not in a good light.