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By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C & Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C, Dec 11 2019
Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Special Nurse in your Life Do you know a nurse who took the extra time to make someone’s else’s day better by providing just the right amount of care? That nurse may have moved a patient closer to the path of recovery, eased the suffering of one’s life, or...
By: King University Online, first published on March 12, 2019. Dec 5 2019
Nurse-to-Patient Ratio: How Many is Too Many? This article is sponsored by King University Online and was first published on March 12, 2019.One of the most important topics being discussed within the field of nursing is rising nurse-to-patient ratios. In general, nurses across the country are...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 27 2019
Thank You and Good-Bye I’ve written before about a special nurse that came into our lives many years ago – over 18 years ago, in fact. I’m sad to say that Nurse L died earlier this month after battling brain cancer. While we did keep in touch through...
By: Myrna Schnur, MSN, RN Nov 20 2019
Social Determinants of Health As a surgical intensive care nurse, I spent most of my career caring for patients at the height of their illness acuity. On the other end of the spectrum are the primary care and public health nurses who focus their efforts on illness prevention...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Nov 18 2019
Winter Safety for Nurses As the winter season quickly approaches for those of us in the northern hemisphere, make sure you stay safe during this often unpredictable season. With hospitals and skilled nursing facilities operating no matter the weather, be prepared so you...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 15 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Keeping Pace with a Changing Healthcare System: Embracing Whole-Person Care “Nursing is more art than science. I encourage people, ‘Don’t run from that. Run towards it.’”CASEY HOBBS, RN, Director of Nursing/Host & Co-Creator, Nurse Talk Radio, San Francisco, CA We know that nursing is...
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By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 30 2019
Three Things I Learned This Month As nurses we are exposed to new information on a daily basis. We encounter information in so many formats – listening to the news on our way to work, learning about a new patient condition that we were not aware of, listening to lectures...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 17 2019
Supporting Family Caregivers Did you know…? American Journal of Nursing (AJN) offers an important collection of evidence-based resources to benefit nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for older adults. This series of articles was published as a print...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 9 2018
NCNP Fall '18: Pearls and Inspiration We headed west last month for the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP)! It was sunny and warm in Ahaheim, where nurse practitioners came together to learn, network, and have some fun! My experience at this NCNP really focused on...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN Jul 19 2018
Lippincott Professional Development Accepts ANCC Premier Award July 17, 2018 Lippincott Professional Development (LPD) has received the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Premier Accreditation Award for the second year in a row. As the Executive Director of Continuing Education at Wolters Kluwer, I...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 16 2018
NCNP Spring ‘18: Dissecting the Difference Between MDs and NPs How do primary care concerns differ between an MD and an NP? Dr. Margaret Fitzgerald, Conference Chairperson for the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP), explained it clearly during the opening session to the Spring 2018 NCNP...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 27 2017
National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP): Fall 2017 Earlier this month, we had a great showing of advanced practice nurses for our fall National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP). It was one week after Nursing Management Congress2017 and one week after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas....
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By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 13 2019
What is a Biomarker? The term biomarker, or biological marker, refers to a broad range of measures which capture what is happening in a cell or organism at a given moment. Biomarkers are objective medical signs (as opposed to symptoms reported by the patient) used to...
By: Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC Nov 8 2019
Forensic Nursing In honor of Forensic Nursing week planned for November 11-15, 2019, let’s dive into exactly what this niche nursing sub-specialty is all about! What is a forensic nurse? Forensic nursing is a fascinating nursing specialty that requires...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 30 2019
Three Things I Learned This Month As nurses we are exposed to new information on a daily basis. We encounter information in so many formats – listening to the news on our way to work, learning about a new patient condition that we were not aware of, listening to lectures...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 18 2019
Mediterranean Diet The Mediterranean diet has stood the test of time. It is one of the healthiest diets that an individual can follow and leads to many positive health outcomes. It is easy to see why health care providers commonly refer their patients to this way of...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 16 2019
Taking a Closer Look at the Paleolithic Diet and the Whole30 Program In the blog, The Latest Nutrition Trends: From A to Z, we briefly reviewed some of the common nutrition trends that we often hear of while working in healthcare. The benefits of eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and engaging in...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Oct 14 2019
What You Should Know About Breast Cancer Screening According to the National Cancer Institutes’ (2019) latest statistics, over 268,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. While research has made great progress in the area of treatment, the best...
Patient Safety More
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Sep 5 2019
Vaping Epidemic: A Public Health Crisis? Vaping has been a focus in recent headlines and the story continues to unfold. As of August 27, 2019, 215 people in 25 states were hospitalized for severe lung disease possibly linked to vaping nicotine or tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Aug 2 2019
What is a Nurse Care Coordinator? Imagine the following. Your grandmother was admitted to the hospital a few days ago for congestive heart failure exacerbation and is to be discharged from the hospital today. During her hospital admission, she was seen by many specialists that she...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, RN, MSN Jul 31 2019
CBD vs Cannabis/THC - What's the Difference? I live in Denver, Colorado and since the legalization of recreational marijuana in 2014, I have witnessed an explosion of the industry with cannabis dispensaries popping up on most major city blocks. One cannabis-based product that is garnering...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 11 2019
10 Things Nurses Should Know about Kratom Kratom is one of the newer psychoactive substances derived from natural elements and used for pain relief. It’s an unscheduled opioid receptor agonist, and while banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it is widely available and...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Jun 12 2019
My Professional Poster Presentation I recently had the opportunity to create a professional poster for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) conference in Baltimore, Maryland. CPC+ is a national advanced primary care medical home model that aims to strengthen primary care...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 12 2019
Patient Safety: Medication Errors that Result in Criminal Indictment Serious medication errors occur in healthcare as a result of both human and system factors. When a practitioner makes a mistake due to human error that results in a patient death, should that clinician be criminally indicted? Unfortunately, that...
Leadership More
By: King University Online, first published on March 12, 2019. Dec 5 2019
Nurse-to-Patient Ratio: How Many is Too Many? This article is sponsored by King University Online and was first published on March 12, 2019.One of the most important topics being discussed within the field of nursing is rising nurse-to-patient ratios. In general, nurses across the country are...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 15 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Keeping Pace with a Changing Healthcare System: Embracing Whole-Person Care “Nursing is more art than science. I encourage people, ‘Don’t run from that. Run towards it.’”CASEY HOBBS, RN, Director of Nursing/Host & Co-Creator, Nurse Talk Radio, San Francisco, CA We know that nursing is...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 21 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Navigating a Changing Profession “We face as nurses huge challenges and how do we take advantage of the technology we have without losing the art of nursing.”STUART FISK, CRNP, Director, Center for Inclusion Health - Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA  As...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 30 2019
The Power of Informal Conversations and Bold Relationships I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Connie Delaney, Professor & Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. We spoke about her nursing career, her current work and the importance of nurses getting involved as...
By: Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky, PhD, RN, CCRN, CEN, ACNS-BC, FAEN, and Kathy Easter, MSN, RN, CCRN-K Jun 24 2019
Visionary Nurse Leader - Who Will You Nominate? The following excerpt was published in Nursing Management’s January 2019 issue. This winning 2018 Richard Hader Visionary Leader Award entry was submitted by Kathleen Evanovich Zavotsky, PhD, RN, CCRN, CEN, ACNS-BC, FAEN, and Kathy...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Jun 12 2019
My Professional Poster Presentation I recently had the opportunity to create a professional poster for the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) conference in Baltimore, Maryland. CPC+ is a national advanced primary care medical home model that aims to strengthen primary care...
Technology More
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 4 2019
A Nurse's Review of Activity Trackers: Top Picks for Monitoring Your Health I am always struck by the amount of people who are using wearable technology such as fitness trackers and smartwatches, but I didn’t know whether something like that would be right for me. At first, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to add...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Sep 9 2019
mHealth Apps for Nurses The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2018) supports the “development of mobile medical applications (apps) that improve health care and provide consumers and healthcare professionals with valuable health information.” About three...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 30 2019
The Power of Informal Conversations and Bold Relationships I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Connie Delaney, Professor & Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. We spoke about her nursing career, her current work and the importance of nurses getting involved as...
By: Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-C, AGACNP-C Jan 4 2019
The Leadless Pacemaker: A Game Changer For over fifty years, cardiac pacing systems have been surgically implanted for symptomatic bradycardia (Reynolds et al., 2016). Approximately 200,000 pacemakers are implanted annually in the United States, and due to an aging population and...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN May 11 2018
Think Differently about Innovation in Nursing Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN Executive Director of Continuing Education Wolters Kluwer - Health Learning, Research & PracticeMy colleague, Denise Felsenstein, tested an intervention during her Doctor of Nursing practice...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 31 2016
Introducing Your NursingCenter.com Dashboard! You may or may not have yet noticed that we’ve begun implementing more personalized features here on NursingCenter.com. Take some time to explore your very own dashboard of content related to your area(s) of practice! Here’s how&hellip...
Inspiration More
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C & Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C, Dec 11 2019
Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Special Nurse in your Life Do you know a nurse who took the extra time to make someone’s else’s day better by providing just the right amount of care? That nurse may have moved a patient closer to the path of recovery, eased the suffering of one’s life, or...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 27 2019
Thank You and Good-Bye I’ve written before about a special nurse that came into our lives many years ago – over 18 years ago, in fact. I’m sad to say that Nurse L died earlier this month after battling brain cancer. While we did keep in touch through...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 15 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Keeping Pace with a Changing Healthcare System: Embracing Whole-Person Care “Nursing is more art than science. I encourage people, ‘Don’t run from that. Run towards it.’”CASEY HOBBS, RN, Director of Nursing/Host & Co-Creator, Nurse Talk Radio, San Francisco, CA We know that nursing is...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 1 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Elevating Nurse Impact Through Lifelong Learning  “If I went back to school, there was so much more I could do…and where could I do the most good.”MEGGIN TALLMAN, RN, BSN, Pediatric ICU - Children’s of Alabama and Mercy Ships volunteer, Birmingham, AL   As...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 21 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Navigating a Changing Profession “We face as nurses huge challenges and how do we take advantage of the technology we have without losing the art of nursing.”STUART FISK, CRNP, Director, Center for Inclusion Health - Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA  As...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 18 2019
Top 5 Things Nurses Need to Address Nursing Shortage As baby boomers age and eventually leave the nursing workforce, we can expect to experience a significant shortage of nurses. Researchers project that one million registered nurses will retire by 2030 (Buerhaus et al, 2017). Think about the years...
Evidence-Based Practice More
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Oct 28 2019
Health Literacy - A Prescription to End Patient Confusion I recently attended a lecture on “Health Literacy and the Nexus to the Quality of Health Care” presented by Joy Deupree, PhD, MSN, CRNP, WHNP-BC. Dr. Deupree is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama School of Nursing...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 24 2019
What Is A Cleanse And Is It Safe? We’ve posted several blogs recently focusing on nutritional trends and diets that have been popular in the media over the past several years. I’m not sure about you, but I have encountered several colleagues, friends, and patients...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Oct 14 2019
What You Should Know About Breast Cancer Screening According to the National Cancer Institutes’ (2019) latest statistics, over 268,000 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer this year. While research has made great progress in the area of treatment, the best...
By: Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC Oct 11 2019
Intermittent Fasting Diet Plan Obesity is a well-known worldwide epidemic that is a risk factor for developing heart disease, diabetes, certain types of cancer, and many other health issues. As the obesity epidemic continues, people have developed interest for weight loss...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 7 2019
BMI, Obesity and Weight Management Normal weight, overweight, and obesity can be measured by body mass index (BMI). BMI is calculated by weight (kg) divided by the square of height (m2) (Jensen-Yanovski et al, 2014). The table below explains the categories associated with BMI...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Sep 20 2019
Winters' Formula Winters’ formula is used to evaluate respiratory compensation when analyzing acid-based disorders and a metabolic acidosis is present.   PCO2 = (1.5 x HCO3-) + 8 ± 2   Winters’ formula gives an expected value for...
Education & Career More
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 15 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Keeping Pace with a Changing Healthcare System: Embracing Whole-Person Care “Nursing is more art than science. I encourage people, ‘Don’t run from that. Run towards it.’”CASEY HOBBS, RN, Director of Nursing/Host & Co-Creator, Nurse Talk Radio, San Francisco, CA We know that nursing is...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 1 2019
#HeARTofNursing – Elevating Nurse Impact Through Lifelong Learning  “If I went back to school, there was so much more I could do…and where could I do the most good.”MEGGIN TALLMAN, RN, BSN, Pediatric ICU - Children’s of Alabama and Mercy Ships volunteer, Birmingham, AL   As...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 1 2019
On the Lookout for Burnout, Depression, and Suicide Risk As nurses, we work long hours whether on our feet doing direct care, writing budgets, dealing with staffing, traveling to see patients at home, or teaching the next generation of nurses. We know how varied our roles can be! For me, it’s...
By: Myrna Schnur Aug 19 2019
Starting My First Clinical Rotation - What Do I Need? It’s been over twenty-five years since I graduated from nursing school, but I will never forget my first day of clinical rotations. I had learned quite a bit in the classroom and skills lab: how to assess my patients, administer medications,...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 16 2019
Shopping for Stethoscopes - Do You Hear What I Hear? You use your stethoscope countless times each shift.  As an indispensable tool for rapid patient assessment, your stethoscope has a constant presence with you as you care for patients. Now that it’s time to purchase your first or a...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Aug 12 2019
Nurse Apparel & Tools - Look Good, Feel Good & Be Prepared To have a successful shift, having the right apparel and tools for the job is essential! Whether you are a new graduate or a seasoned professional, we’ll look at some tools of the trade help you get your job done with ease. As always, keep...

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