It’s time for all of us to address this environmental injustice. Cecília Tomori, PhD, MA An overwhelming body of research highlights the pervasive harms of plastic pollution in our environment and health. Manufacturers make plastics from fossil fuels. A new report from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory states that plastic production generates four times the polluting greenhouse… The post Earth Day: An Opportunity to Address the Environmental Injustice of Plastic Pollution appeared first on John ..read more

A former nurse accused of trying to carry out a "mercy killing" on her husband has been found guilty of attempted murder in the WA Supreme Court. Last week, the jury found Wendy Ruth Sym, 63, had attempted to murder her husband of almost 40 years in January 2021 after he was admitted to hospital suffering advanced dementia. Kenneth William Sym had become "increasingly disoriented" and had a fall shortly before he was admitted to Joondalup Health Campus in WA ..read more

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I published the blog below two years ago as we emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, many leaders were fascinated with this blog and asked about the CNO’s identity. I promised confidentiality to the CNO at the time. We even changed the identity from male […] The post A CNO Goes Incognito – An Update appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader ..read more

Contract provisions that stick nurses with the cost of training programs if they leave or are terminated before their contracts are up will largely be prohibited under the Federal Trade Commission's April 23 ruling to ban noncompete agreements — a decision National Nurses United is applauding ..read more

Temitope (Temi) Oseromi, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, became the nurse manager of GBMC Healthcare’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in early 2022. She’s the only nurse manager overseeing two units, but Oseromi was also tasked with rebuilding a decimated MICU. During the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline medical staff were hit the hardest in terms of stress, uncertainty, and burnout, especially those nurses working in Intensive Care Units ..read more

Writing patient educational materials can be a great niche for nurses who love to write and a natural means to grow a freelance career as a nurse writer. The following article, Nutrition in Pregnancy , by Melissa Murphy RN, is a great example of solid patient education. Patient Education Patient education is a huge part of nursing. Education can begin with the physician or other practitioner, but the major portion of the education falls to the nurses ..read more

How many times have you been out in public when someone asks you what you do and you respond, “I’m a nurse.” Bland. Generic. Nondescript. That type of response promotes the false notion that all nurses are alike, do the same thing, and are basically interchangeable. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Case […] The post Why Nurses Need an Elevator Speech first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN ..read more

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN This is the third blog summarizing research I presented at the AONL Research Foundation Keynote at the AONL meeting in New Orleans meeting. My topic was the Evolving Role of Nurse Managers in the New World of Work. To prepare for this presentation, we sought input from […] The post Key Changes in How Nurses View Their Work appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader ..read more

The U.S. has an all-time record number of actively licensed nurses — 5.6 million — but hospitals are struggling to recruit and retain enough. To discover missed opportunities, researchers surveyed 7,887 nurses who recently exited the healthcare industry ..read more

As AONL 2024 continues, nurse leaders are brainstorming how to integrate technology into their workflows. After day one at AONL 2024, it's clear that nurse leaders and executives have a few common goals in mind to tackle workforce concerns. Virtual nursing It's no secret that the largest issue facing nursing today is staffing. CNOs are working hard to lower turnover rates by improving recruitment and retention efforts, and many of them are incorporating virtual nursing as a way to do that ..read more