End social care ‘status quo’ and enact reforms, MPs demand
Deep reform to adult social care cannot be “kicked down the road any longer”, say health leaders, after the publication of a new report by the UK Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee. The post End social care ‘status quo’ and enact reforms, MPs demand appeared first on Nursing Times.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing The kidney is both a source of mediators that promote hypertension (angiotensin II) and a target of high systemic arterial pressure. Chronic hypertension is second to diabetes mellitus as a primary cause of renal insufficiency.
How could AI have an impact on the lives of people living with dementia?
This weeks’ blog is by Dr Catharine Jenkins, Associate Professor, Dementia Care, Birmingham City University (catharine.jenkins@bcu.ac.uk). This blog is the second in our theme focusing on artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI), like Evidence-Based Practice, uses previous knowledge to expand on, reframe and develop new ideas. In this blog, catharine.jenkins@bcu.ac.uk, interviews ChatGPT, and interrogates it as […]
VA Nurses Struggle in Uncertain Times
Like many of their federal colleagues, nurses who staff the Department of Veterans Administration (VA) are dealing with tremendous uncertainty. In February, an AP story pointed out that nurses caring for military veterans through the VA were grappling with a Trump administration deferred resignation offer amid longstanding staffing shortages and that unions were discouraging nurses […]
Springer Publishing Joins ANA in Honoring The Power of Nurses™
This National Nurses Week (May 6–12), Springer Publishing proudly stands alongside the American Nurses Enterprise—comprised of the American Nurses Association (ANA), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and American Nurses Foundation (ANF)—to celebrate The Power of Nurses™. This national campaign highlights nurses as the driving force behind compassionate care, innovation, and transformative change in healthcare. From […]
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Heart rate and blood pressure in aortic dissection should be promptly reduced. Titratable combined modality therapy to promote vasodilation (nitroprusside) and control cardiac contractility (esmolol) is advocated for this disorder.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Aortic dissection results from an intimal tear in the aortic wall. The extent is determined by factors that increase the rate of change of aortic pressure (dp/dt), including elevation in blood pressure, heart rate and myocardial stroke volume.
The Relentless School Nurse: Whooping Cough’s Comeback – The Alarming Cost of Falling Vaccination Rates
While measles outbreaks are widely reported in the media, another preventable disease is quietly making a dangerous comeback: pertussis, or whooping cough. This year alone, the U.S. has seen more than 7,000 cases. Tragically, several infants have already died, highlighting just how deadly pertussis can be for the youngest and most vulnerable. This spike isn’t…
Hot off the Press – ANS 48:2 – April-June 2025
The latest issue of ANS is now available to view on the ANS Website! In Dr Eun Ok Im’s editorial for this issue, she discusses the impending impacts of the recent drastic changes to the National Institute of Health (NIH), and particularly the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR). She states clearly and unequivocally, “In […]
Meet 66-Year-Old New Grad Nurse Jim Segbers
When 66-year-old Jim Segbers strolled across the stage at the Goldfarb School of Nursing in April 2025, he wasn’t just picking up a diploma; he was proving that you’re never…