Nurse Retention: Improving Quality of Care

The best way to control health care costs is not by cutting staff or employing unqualified workers but by improving the quality of care. The best way to do that is by hiring, not firing, more nurses. It is time for health-care executives, some of whom earn as much 40 times more than the nurses they oversee, to treat nurses as the professionals they are.

What would that entail?

The Health of the New Grad: 3 Highlights to Take from Nursing School to Now

After graduating, being new isn't always the easiest status to have. One has to utilize skills learned from school, plus learn even more while on the job. Regardless of which area you chose in nursing, there are three basic ideas that support the new grad as a healthy, working professional.

Work our best and be healthy!

Relationship-based Care in Nursing

While our practice brings about outcomes that equate to quality and satisfaction for patients, families, co-workers, and ultimately the healthcare industry, it always boils down to one key word- relationships. How do we as nurses utilize relationships to deliver care? Is there a correlation between relationship development and healthcare particularly nursing?

Primary nursing is the key to patient success.

RN to MSN Online Program: Fast Tracking Your Nursing Career

"When choosing a MSN program, first look at what specialty interests you and whether you feel the program meets your career needs. Then, decide whether you should take it online, on-ground, or a combination of both. Look at the accreditation!"

Review chat session with Dr. Catherine Garner of American Sentinel University.

Dementia Treatment: Daily Outside Walks and Gardens

For dementia patients, outside activity is important. If you take the time to develop an attractive outside environment, it will encourage your residents to go outside, walk and utilize this area. The benefits include emotional benefits, reminiscing, lifting the mood and spirit, relaxation, physical benefits, improving sleep and increase self esteem.

Increase resident and family satisfaction scores.

Nursing Malpractice: Keeping Legal Troubles at Bay

Most health care providers, including nurse practitioners, are ever vigilant to issues of malpractice. We all chant “do no harm” and yet we are human. We fly through the day trying to get everything done and occasionally something does not get the attention it deserves – including you!

Protect yourself against some of the most common complaints.

Realities of the Current Nursing Job Market

Today’s nursing graduates are entering into the workforce with a very different set of realities. Due to recent economic changes, the number of opportunities for new graduates has decreased dramatically. Some hospitals will no longer hire a new graduate. Unfortunately, the graduate of today often wonders “Will I even be able to find a nursing job after graduation?”

The answer is yes!

Nurses Are Better Together

Sadly, nurses were voted as having the least amount of impact on healthcare reform because they ‘didn’t operate as a single voice’ and were not good at making decisions. We have no real power because we are divided; scattered across the nation with different boards of nursing and different contract licensure rules per state. We must function as a ‘single voice’.

Nothing changes until Nursing gets political.