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By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN May 12 2019
Elevating Our Nursing Profession As I pondered what I would write for this blog, I kept going back to a chapter I wrote for the commemorative edition of Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, that has just been published to celebrate Nurses...
By: Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN May 11 2019
Evidence-Based Practice: Something to Celebrate (Really!) As we think about reasons to celebrate nurses’ work during Nurses Week, we shouldn’t overlook significant changes that have changed how we approach our work and that have, I think, done much to improve our credibility as a profession...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN May 10 2019
Celebrating our Progress as a Profession As nurses, we have many accomplishments to celebrate. Just consider the progress that has occurred since Florence Nightingale set the foundations for nursing as an art and science in the 19th century. Following Florence’s example, nurses...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 9 2019
Celebrate Daily Wins in Nursing Is your employer planning anything special for Nurses Week? Do you typically get a small gift or token – perhaps a pen or water bottle? While we all can agree that adequate staffing and safe work environments would be much more valuable...
By: Janet S. Thomas, MS, RN-BC May 8 2019
Celebrate the Next Generation of Nurses When we Baby Boomers think about the new nursing graduates coming into our workplaces, we tend to envision a group of young, fresh-faced women who are eagerly awaiting the chance to work hard to provide the best in patient care. While that may...
By: Linda Laskowski-Jones, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CEN, NEA-BC, FAWM, FAAN May 7 2019
The Value of Nursing Leadership on the Frontlines and Beyond As we celebrate Nurses Week, it is a good time to consider those nurses whose leadership inspires the ability to survive and thrive amidst the current challenges inherent in our profession. No doubt many nurses might relate that it is not a &ldquo...
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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....
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN Aug 14 2017
ANCC Premier Prize Lippincott Professional Development (LPD) is the 2017 winner of American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Premier Program Award. We are very honored to receive this award which is given to very few organizations that compete each year...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 23 2017
National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP): Spring 2017 Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Ten. The interest and enthusiasm were palpable at this sold-out show! From the opening...
By: Cara Deming May 15 2017
Focus on faith and nursing Get in touch with your spirituality while earning CE credits. If you are a faith community nurse, or want to learn more about how spiritualty and faith can play into your nursing career, our Focus On: Faith Community Nursing has been recently...
By: Cara Deming Apr 28 2017
We’re back at the 2017 NSNA Annual Convention  This was my second time at the NSNA (National Student Nurses Association) Annual Convention, and it was well-worth the flight! This year the annual convention was held at the Hilton Anatole, in Dallas.Just like last year, the nursing...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 1 2017
National Nutrition Month 2017 Today is the first day of National Nutrition Month! We have several journals dedicated to the topic of nutrition, plus a vast amount of related content from this blog and our other nursing journals.  We are happy to share these selections...
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By: Jessica Clark, Senior Conference Coordinator for Wolters Kluwer Apr 2 2019
World Autism Awareness Day - It's Our Normal Everyday Today is World Autism Awareness Day. And while many people take this day to celebrate milestones, start discussions of awareness and advocate for inclusion...my feelings are different. I’ll be honest and say not every day is a celebration...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Mar 26 2019
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Part 2 Do you recall our 42-year-old patient admitted to the hospital with acute pancreatitis who subsequently developed severe ARDS? (See ARDS: Part 1.) Several days into his illness, our patient developed respiratory distress that rapidly progressed to...
By: Kim Fryling-Resare Mar 19 2019
A Million Reasons to Raise MS Awareness I am one in a million. Literally. Or rather, I should say that I am one of the million. Earlier this year, the National MS Society released a study that says nearly one million people in the United States are living with multiple sclerosis, which...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Mar 15 2019
Rare Diseases - More Common than you Think? I recently had the opportunity to attend the Rare Disease Day at PRA Health Sciences in Blue Bell, PA on February 28, 2019. Like many nurses, I had never heard of Rare Disease Day, which takes place around the world on the last day of February...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 1 2019
Measles: A Preventable Illness Making Headlines…Again Four years ago, when an outbreak was occurring in California, we reviewed the basics of the measles and what nurses need to know. We are seeing yet another resurgence of this preventable illness. New York is fighting its worst outbreak ever and...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Jan 26 2019
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Part 1 A 42-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department (ED) with severe abdominal pain. Work-up revealed acute pancreatitis due to alcohol consumption. He disclosed being a binge drinker. Gallbladder...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Jan 22 2019
Adenovirus – What Nurses Need to Know Adenovirus has been in the news over the past several months, shedding light on a common virus that usually produces minor symptoms. With severe illnesses and even deaths reported lately, it’s important to have a broad understanding of this...
By: Lynne Centrella Rudderow, MSN, RN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, CCE Jan 8 2019
STD and STI – What’s the difference? The first time you probably heard the term sexually transmitted disease (STD) was in the awkward years of middle school in a mandatory health class that everyone dreaded. The classroom echoed with giggles and eyes roamed about! The teacher saying...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Nov 26 2018
SGLT2 and SGLT1: What's the Difference? Diabetes mellitus remains a very complex disorder to medically manage, often requiring insulin for Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and lifestyle modifications such as diet, exercise, and weight loss along with oral antidiabetic medications for...
By: Valerie Dziados, MSN, CRNP, ANP-C, AGACNP-C Nov 16 2018
Think it could be ACS? How do you know? Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in adults in the United States, accounting for approximately one-third of deaths in patients over the age of 35 years (CDC, 2017). In 2018 the American Heart Association reported 28.1...
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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...
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: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Oct 28 2018
Why Don’t We Use Trendelenburg? When I first started my nursing career in the early 1990s, I remember watching my preceptor in the critical care unit reflexively place her patient in the Trendelenburg position during episodes of acute hypotension and shock. She explained that...
By: Megan Giovanelli Doble, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Jun 14 2018
The New “Hour-One” Sepsis Bundle: Key Takeaways and Controversies Since its inception in 2002, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SCC) has sought to improve the quality of sepsis care, improve survival for patients with sepsis and increase awareness of sepsis to both those in healthcare and the public. In the...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jun 7 2018
Apgar Score: A lecture by Dr. Virginia Apgar [Podcast] Have you seen today's Google Doodle? Today, June 7th, is the birthday of legendary physician, Virginia Apgar, the creator of the Apgar score. The Apgar score is used in delivery rooms around the world to assess newborn well-being. If you work...
By: Jessica Ann Emmons, MSN, CRNA Mar 10 2018
Incivility in Nursing- Enough is Enough! [VIDEO] At some point, we have all likely witnessed behavior from one colleague toward another that was disrespectful, impolite, or downright rude.  The topic of workplace incivility calls to mind several examples from my own experience, where I had...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 17 2018
Preparing for the Worst: Active Shooter Training In the fall of 2017, after returning from Nursing Management Congress2017 and the National Conference for Nurse Practitioners, both of which took place in Las Vegas immediately following the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, I...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 6 2018
Palliative Care and Hospice Care: What’s the Difference? [VIDEO] As caregivers, educators, and advocates, we must understand the differences between palliative care and hospice care so that we can ensure that patients and families are getting appropriate care and services at the appropriate times. Both...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Dec 3 2017
Why Handwashing Makes Us Healthier – and Happier too! As nurses, we all know the importance of handwashing. We understand that germs can spread disease, and that hand hygiene can help defend against it. But still, 78 percent of all healthcare professionals tested in a recent study presented at a...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 6 2017
The Opioid Epidemic: Are Women Most Vulnerable? The opioid epidemic is a serious public health problem that impacts us professionally, as well as many of us personally. Asking about drug use is something we were taught while in nursing school. Assessing and managing pain has always been a big...
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By: Linda Laskowski-Jones, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CEN, NEA-BC, FAWM, FAAN May 7 2019
The Value of Nursing Leadership on the Frontlines and Beyond As we celebrate Nurses Week, it is a good time to consider those nurses whose leadership inspires the ability to survive and thrive amidst the current challenges inherent in our profession. No doubt many nurses might relate that it is not a &ldquo...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 25 2019
Nurses – Natural Leaders and Collaborators: An Interview with Mike Singer [Podcast] I recently had the privilege of speaking with Mike Singer, CEO of Strategic Partners, Inc (SPI). Mr. Singer’s extensive and successful business career has been – and continues to be – deeply engaged with nurses. In our...
By: Lindsey Lynch Nov 9 2018
An Interview with U.S. Navy Nurse Lieutenant, Ashley Flynn, RN Born and raised in Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S. Navy Nurse Lieutenant Ashley Flynn, RN has chartered a nursing career anything but ordinary. As the first in her family to graduate from college and the first to join the Navy, Flynn had led an...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 2 2018
The Ability to Influence: An Interview with Mary Beth Kingston, RN, MSN, NEA-BC [Podcast] It’s always interesting to learn the different paths nurses take in their careers. In a recent conversation with Mary Beth Kingston, the Chief Nursing Officer at Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee, I learned about the turns her career has...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 16 2018
Nurses – The Keepers of Patients’ Stories: An Interview with Angela Patterson DNP, FNP-BC, NEA-BC [Podcast] We all have interesting stories to share about our journey in nursing. I recently spoke with Dr. Angela Patterson, the Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer of CVS MinuteClinic and Vice President of CVS Health. Dr. Patterson knew from a young age that...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Sep 24 2018
The Unique Perspective of Nurses: An Interview with Mary Ann Fuchs, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN [Podcast] I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Mary Ann Fuchs, Vice President of Patient Care and System Chief Nurse Executive for Duke University Health System and the Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs for Duke University School of Nursing...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Sep 11 2018
Nursing Now: The First 6 Months Approximately six months have passed since the official launch of Nursing Now, a global collaborative campaign between the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Nursing Now’s vision is to &ldquo...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 29 2018
Chief Nurse, Dr. Anne Woods, Presents on Global Stage This week, Dr. Anne Dabrow Woods, Chief Nurse of Wolters Kluwer Health Learning, Research, and Practice, presented at the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) 2018 National Nursing Forum, a signature leadership and educational event, which took...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN May 23 2018
Are Nurses Invisible in the Media? We, as nurses, are aware of the profound impact that our profession has and continues to have on the advancement of patient care, policy and business. Nurses work at the bedside, teach at universities, conduct ground-breaking research, serve as...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN May 12 2018
Have the Courage to Influence Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Chief Nurse Wolters Kluwer - Health, Learning, Research & Practice This past week, we have been writing about the Nurses Week theme: Nurses Inspire, Innovate, Influence. What does...
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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...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 19 2016
Mobile Healthcare Applications Part 3: Nursing Education at Your Fingertips Rounding out this blog series on mobile health applications (apps) or mHealth apps, I wanted to touch on apps specifically designed to provide educational tools and quick references for the nursing profession. According to a survey conducted by...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 10 2016
Mobile Healthcare Applications Part 2: To Regulate or Not? In Part 1 of this series, I provided a general overview of mobile medical applications (apps) that are available on the market in the areas of general health, wellness, disease management, and hospital clinical workflow. There are many potential...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 3 2016
Mobile Healthcare Applications Part 1: Your Health at Your Fingertips If you own a Smart mobile phone, chances are you have downloaded a mobile application (app) or have used one at some point. According to a 2015 Pew Research Study, two-thirds of Americans own a Smart phone and more than half have used their phone...
By: Joan M. Robinson, MSN, RN May 9 2016
Medication Safety: Go beyond the basics For any nurse working in a direct care setting, preparing medications and administering them to patients is part of the daily routine. Mistakes can happen at any point in the process. Administration errors are one of the most serious and most...
By: Cara Deming May 2 2016
Nursing Informatics Day: Celebrate with NursingCenter and CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing “The most important thing for nurses to understand about informatics is that it’s not technology. Informatics is not about hard drives, and it’s not even necessarily about programming, and we certainly cannot fix someone’s...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 22 2016
The Essentials of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT): Part 2 I have learned quite a bit on my journey to gaining a better understanding of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT). In Part 1 of this series, I provided an overview of NPWT, including what it is, how it works and the risks and benefits. In Part...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 18 2016
The Essentials of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT): Part 1 Since I began working in a reconstructive surgery clinic several years ago, I have been exposed to a myriad of complex acute and chronic wounds that require advanced treatment modalities, such as Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), in order to...
Inspiration More
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN May 12 2019
Elevating Our Nursing Profession As I pondered what I would write for this blog, I kept going back to a chapter I wrote for the commemorative edition of Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not, that has just been published to celebrate Nurses...
By: Maureen “Shawn” Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN May 11 2019
Evidence-Based Practice: Something to Celebrate (Really!) As we think about reasons to celebrate nurses’ work during Nurses Week, we shouldn’t overlook significant changes that have changed how we approach our work and that have, I think, done much to improve our credibility as a profession...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN May 10 2019
Celebrating our Progress as a Profession As nurses, we have many accomplishments to celebrate. Just consider the progress that has occurred since Florence Nightingale set the foundations for nursing as an art and science in the 19th century. Following Florence’s example, nurses...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 9 2019
Celebrate Daily Wins in Nursing Is your employer planning anything special for Nurses Week? Do you typically get a small gift or token – perhaps a pen or water bottle? While we all can agree that adequate staffing and safe work environments would be much more valuable...
By: Janet S. Thomas, MS, RN-BC May 8 2019
Celebrate the Next Generation of Nurses When we Baby Boomers think about the new nursing graduates coming into our workplaces, we tend to envision a group of young, fresh-faced women who are eagerly awaiting the chance to work hard to provide the best in patient care. While that may...
By: Linda Laskowski-Jones, MS, APRN, ACNS-BC, CEN, NEA-BC, FAWM, FAAN May 7 2019
The Value of Nursing Leadership on the Frontlines and Beyond As we celebrate Nurses Week, it is a good time to consider those nurses whose leadership inspires the ability to survive and thrive amidst the current challenges inherent in our profession. No doubt many nurses might relate that it is not a &ldquo...
By: Collette Bishop Hendler, RN, MS, MA, CIC May 6 2019
Celebrate! 4 Million Unique Talents and Passions In celebration of National Nurses Week 2019, the American Nurses Association created the tagline, 4 Million Reasons to Celebrate as an affirmation of the number of individuals that make up the nursing profession. The sheer number of us made me...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 3 2019
4 Million Reasons to Celebrate – National Nurses Week 2019 National Nurses Week is almost here! Our numbers are vast, our knowledge and skills are top-notch, and our compassion is unparalleled. We have much to celebrate! We asked Wolters Kluwer nurses what they celebrate, and the answers are inspiring...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 22 2019
What DO Nurses Do? Unless someone is a nurse, is related to a nurse, or has depended on care from nurses, it’s clear that there is a knowledge gap about our work. We learned this a few years ago, when Joy Behar referred to one of our most important tools as a ...
By: Jessica Clark, Senior Conference Coordinator for Wolters Kluwer Apr 2 2019
World Autism Awareness Day - It's Our Normal Everyday Today is World Autism Awareness Day. And while many people take this day to celebrate milestones, start discussions of awareness and advocate for inclusion...my feelings are different. I’ll be honest and say not every day is a celebration...
Evidence-Based Practice More
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Apr 1 2019
Patients Must Always Be at the Center of Healthcare Patients must always be at the center of healthcare. Even though the practice of clinical care is constantly evolving, along with technology and information delivery, patient expectations are not. Patients always expect a high-quality experience...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Oct 28 2018
Why Don’t We Use Trendelenburg? When I first started my nursing career in the early 1990s, I remember watching my preceptor in the critical care unit reflexively place her patient in the Trendelenburg position during episodes of acute hypotension and shock. She explained that...
By: Cara Deming Jun 13 2016
The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and Lippincott NursingCenter – what a pair! If you haven’t noticed already, Lippincott NursingCenter hosts a wide variety of content from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). JBI is a leading international research and development organization based within the Faculty of Health Sciences...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 4 2015
Red meat and cancer: the beef on beef Over the past week, several people have asked me about recent news related to red meat and processed meat causing cancer. Could it be true? Is it really as dangerous as smoking? Do I need to stop using my grill? While the association between red...
By: Cara Deming Mar 19 2014
NursingCenter’s “Specialty Sites” Are you familiar with NursingCenter’s specialty sites? In the past few years, NursingCenter has launched two specialty sites, the Evidence Based Practice Network and the Skin Care Network. Both sites feature targeted, in-depth content and...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 12 2013
Defining Features of a Systematic Review Today, I listened in on the Ovid Webcast, Beyond the Search: Maximizing the Quality of Systematic Reviews. Dr. Edoardo Aromataris, PhD, Director of Synthesis Science at the Joanna Briggs Institute in Adelaide, Australia and Dr. Craig Lockwood...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 10 2013
Time to get dressed! The research on nursing uniforms The debate over standardization of nursing uniforms is well-documented, however, the existence of rigorous, well-designed studies is lacking. In the latest issue of JONA, Journal of Nursing Administration, an integrative review examining the...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 29 2012
Using a journal club to increase EBP knowledge and implementation We know that evidence-based practice (EBP) leads to improved patient outcomes. Yet it is also known that nurses identify barriers to implementing evidence-based practice, such as lack of knowledge, support, time, and authority to change practice...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 3 2012
​Self-Care and Lymphedema My first preceptor was a nursing assistant who had been treated for breast cancer several years prior to my orientation. While I didn’t know the extent of her disease or treatment, I can still remember the tight wrap that she wore on her...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 3 2012
Presenting the Evidence: Poster Presentations Last week I had the pleasure of attending Nursing2012 Symposium in Orlando, Florida. One of the sessions, titled Faculty-Guided Poster Tour: Ask the Experts, was a highlight for me. This session was exactly what the title implies; an informal tour...
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By: Janet S. Thomas, MS, RN-BC May 8 2019
Celebrate the Next Generation of Nurses When we Baby Boomers think about the new nursing graduates coming into our workplaces, we tend to envision a group of young, fresh-faced women who are eagerly awaiting the chance to work hard to provide the best in patient care. While that may...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 3 2019
4 Million Reasons to Celebrate – National Nurses Week 2019 National Nurses Week is almost here! Our numbers are vast, our knowledge and skills are top-notch, and our compassion is unparalleled. We have much to celebrate! We asked Wolters Kluwer nurses what they celebrate, and the answers are inspiring...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 22 2019
Does Nursing ‘Spark Joy’ For You? Have you seen the Netflix show, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo? If you’re like me and need inspiration and guidance to get – and stay – organized, you may want to check it out. In the show, Ms. Kondo has a set strategy for...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Dec 12 2018
2018 Gift Guide for Nurses What will you get for that special nurse in your life? Whether it’s a colleague, family member, friend, or a nurse who cares for you or your loved one, finding the perfect gift doesn’t have to be a challenge. Fifteen great ideas are...
By: Lindsey Lynch Nov 9 2018
An Interview with U.S. Navy Nurse Lieutenant, Ashley Flynn, RN Born and raised in Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S. Navy Nurse Lieutenant Ashley Flynn, RN has chartered a nursing career anything but ordinary. As the first in her family to graduate from college and the first to join the Navy, Flynn had led an...
By: Jack Davis, MSN, RN, ONC Oct 23 2018
Enhancing the Health Care Landscape One Ortho Nurse At a Time Each year on October 30, orthopaedic nurses everywhere celebrate International Orthopaedic Nurses Day. The tradition began in the United States’ Senate with a proclamation presented by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) in 1990 to then-President...
By: Margaret Smith, MJ, BSN, RN, CRNI Oct 11 2018
Top 10 Things to Remember When Precepting a Nursing Student We’ve all been nursing students – some more recently than others – but it shouldn’t be too hard to recall those first clinical experiences and the impact of our clinical preceptors. If you find yourself precepting a student...
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: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 17 2018
Is there a ‘K’ in certification? There may not be a letter ‘K’ in certification, but there is certainly a ‘K’ in some of the certification acronyms. What does it mean? The ‘K’ in some certifications, such as CCRN-K (Acute/Critical Care...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN May 9 2018
Many Faces of Innovation: One Nurse’s Perspective Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Clinical Editor, Lippincott NursingCenter.com Innovation is a word used almost excessively in our society where technology permeates every aspect of our lives. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of...

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