Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Honoring Legacy, Embracing Collectivism, and Shaping the Future
As Hispanic Heritage Month comes around, I’m feeling extra grateful this year. I recently began my…
Shining a Light on Caregiving Youth
On September 22nd, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Center for Equity in Aging and Center…
A National Strategy to Improve Support for Breastfeeding
Each year, more than 3.5 million women give birth in the United States. While 84 percent…
What to know about coercive control in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sentencing
As Sean “Diddy” Combs faces sentencing following his July conviction on two federal charges of transporting…
The Relentless School Nurse: Digital Dilemmas – How School Nurses Can Lead on Privacy, Equity, and Safer Tech in Schools
Every day, the digital transformation of schools accelerates, and with it, the potential to either safeguard or jeopardize the future of every student. From AI-driven health screening to the pervasiveness of cell phones, technology in education is rewriting the rules on privacy, data equity, and who gets heard. Yet as decisions are made in boardrooms…
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing The administration of intravenous magnesium sulfate should be the initial therapy for torsades de pointes and should be considered as an adjunctive treatment for refractory ventricular dysrhythmias.
Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Managing Established Infectious Diseases in Corrections
This is part two of our Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Infectious Disease Prevention in Corrections. Today we will discuss Managing Established Infectious Diseases in Corrections. In correctional healthcare, some infectious diseases are so common that every nurse behind the wall will encounter them. Tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and seasonal influenza […]
Nurses Say They Broke Strike to Help Shooting Victims but Were Turned Away, Ran to Scene
All images courtesy of: Crystal Dhooghe, BSN, RN, Genesys ER nurse on the strike line “Plain and simple, it’s just about doing the right thing,” says Genesys ER nurse Paige…
19 Trailblazing Nurses Who Changed Nursing History (Who Weren’t Florence Nightingale)
From one nurse to another: most of what we do never makes headlines in a positive way—but it should. Behind every shift, every patient, and every breakthrough are nurses whose…
Off-Duty Nurse Practitioner Leaps Barricade to Save Marathon Runner in Cardiac Arrest
What began as a celebratory day quickly turned critical when a runner collapsed near the finish line of the Akron Marathon. Dan Molnar, a nurse practitioner with Summa Health, wasn’t…