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Advice & Resources for New Nurses

Building Communication & Teamwork
Communication and teamwork are key to creating a positive work environment and for patient safety. By developing these skills, you can play a role in improving staff and patient satisfaction.NCPDInfluencing Discharge Efficiency: Addressing Interdisciplinary Communication, Transportation, and COVID-19 as Barriers Professional Case ManagementCommunication success Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!   Improving perceptions of communication, collaboration, and teamwork using structured nurse-surgeon bedside rounds Nursing2022Essential Skills for Nurses: Skills that are Anything but “Soft” Lippincott NursingCenterGetting and Giving Report American Journal of NursingDelegating as a New Nurse American Journal of NursingTeamwork and the Patient Care Experience Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!Bringing Back the Team Approach Lippincott NursingCenter
Developing Critical Thinking Skills and Fostering Clinical Judgement
Ensuring Patient & Family Centered Care
Each patient and each family is unique and as a nurse, you must be open to learning about and incorporating patients’ culture, values and support network into the plan of care.Challenges to Patient-Centered Care in Home Health Nursing Home Healthcare NowNCPDMoving Beyond the LGBTQIA+ Acronym: Toward Patient-Centered Care Rehabilitation Nursing JournalNCPDImplementation and Practice Barriers of Family-Centered Care Encountered by Neonatal Nurses Advances in Neonatal CareNCPDA Person-Centered Approach Understanding Stroke Survivor and Family Caregiver Emotional HealthJournal of Neuroscience NursingPalliative Care: A Patient-Centered Paradigm Journal of Christian NursingPatients Must Always Be at the Center of Healthcare Lippincott NursingCenterDischarging A Patient - Here's What You Need to Know and Do Lippincott NursingCenterSupporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone American Journal of Nursing collection*Caregiving and Caregivers: An Important Part of the Healthcare Team Home Healthcare Now*American Journal of Nursing (AJN) collections will open on the AJN website.
Establishing Yourself as a Professional and Developing Leadership Skills
As a nurse, you will never stop learning and growing. Explore these resources as you develop in your professional role and discover other opportunities.  Résumé success Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!You passed the NCLEX! Time to find the right job Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!The value of certification Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!The Ins & Outs of Professional Liability Insurance for NursesLippincott NursingCenterMindfulness: A necessary leadership competency Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!Leadership that makes a difference Nursing2022Wolters Kluwer Society Partners Lippincott NursingCenterNursing Societies and Certification Boards Lippincott NursingCenterCheck Yourself: Are You A Toxic Role Model? Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!Learn to Manage Yourself American Journal of NursingNurses – Leaders at the Bedside and Beyond Lippincott NursingCenterA Primer on the Good Samaritan Act Journal of Christian NursingLegal Clinic American Journal of Nursing collection**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) collections will open on the AJN website.
Facing Ethical Challenges with Strength and Compassion
Nurses face ethical challenges every day in areas such as patient rights, autonomy, informed consent, advanced care planning, end-of-life decision making, and confidentiality. Ethics guide how we should treat one another, how we should act, what we should do, and why.New strategies to combat workplace incivility and promote joyNursing2023Patient Refusal of Nursing Care—An Ethical Dilemma for Bedside Nurses Clinical Nurse SpecialistHealth information technology: Ethical concerns in nursing practice and researchNursing 2022Self-Care: The Ethical Imperative for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals Clinical Nurse SpecialistWithdrawing life-sustaining treatments v. euthanasia: The ethical difference Nursing2022NCPDMoral Distress: A Catalyst in Building Moral Resilience American Journal of NursingWorkarounds Are Routinely Used by Nurses—But Are They Ethical? American Journal of NursingWorkplace Incivility [Pocket Card] Lippincott NursingCenterFinancial toxicity: Ethical considerations for nurses Nursing2019Ethical Decision Making Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!
Making Collaborative Practice a Priority
Prioritizing Quality and Safety
Understanding Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
What does it mean to deliver evidence-based care? Review the basics of EBP, including the different types of research – including systematic reviews and meta-analyses – and the hierarchy of evidence.NCPDEvidence-Based Practice for Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Management American Journal of NursingImplementation Science Toolkit for Clinicians: Improving Adoption of Evidence in Practice Dimensions of Critical Care NursingWhat is Evidence-Based Practice? [VIDEO] Lippincott NursingCenterEvidence-Based Practice Methodology [VIDEO] Lippincott NursingCenterEvidence-Based Practice, Step by Step American Journal of Nursing collection*Evidence-Based Practice: Something to Celebrate (Really!) Lippincott NursingCenter*American Journal of Nursing (AJN) collections will open on the AJN website.
Using Informatics to Improve Processes

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