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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 6 2020
Pregnancy and COVID-19 These are scary and uncertain times that COVID-19 is creating. We all have a story to tell – who we know, how we are being impacted, and how our lives are changing. Certain patient populations are facing unique experiences and challenges...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 3 2020
Adapting to Changes in Clinical & Educational Roles Researchers, retirees, and others who’ve been away from clinical practice now back in scrubs and caring for patients…Dermatologists, gynecologists, orthopedists and others specialty clinicians relocating to COVID-19 testing sites...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 31 2020
Calculating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Severity Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening disease, characterized by acute onset of hypoxia and pulmonary infiltrates, and incited by conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, trauma, burns, pancreatitis and blood transfusion...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 29 2020
In the Event of Turbulence, One Patient at a Time You are called to a rapid response or a code blue and the patient is in isolation for COVID-19. It takes you several minutes to don your personal protective equipment, delaying life-saving interventions by several minutes. You go in and out of one...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 26 2020
Bringing Back the Team Approach: It’s Time for Alternative Staffing and Onboarding Models I have been a nurse since the mid 1980’s and during that time I have witnessed a variety of staffing and onboarding models. In the days of nursing shortages, we were using a team nursing approach where one RN directed the team of LPNs and...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 25 2020
Surviving Sepsis Campaign takes on COVID-19: A Guideline to Managing Critically Ill Patients In December 2019, a novel acute respiratory virus called COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) created an epidemic in Wuhan, China and in a few short months grew to an unprecedented incidence of infection and mortality across the globe leading to a pandemic...
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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: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 6 2020
Pregnancy and COVID-19 These are scary and uncertain times that COVID-19 is creating. We all have a story to tell – who we know, how we are being impacted, and how our lives are changing. Certain patient populations are facing unique experiences and challenges...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 31 2020
Calculating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Severity Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening disease, characterized by acute onset of hypoxia and pulmonary infiltrates, and incited by conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, trauma, burns, pancreatitis and blood transfusion...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 29 2020
In the Event of Turbulence, One Patient at a Time You are called to a rapid response or a code blue and the patient is in isolation for COVID-19. It takes you several minutes to don your personal protective equipment, delaying life-saving interventions by several minutes. You go in and out of one...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 26 2020
Bringing Back the Team Approach: It’s Time for Alternative Staffing and Onboarding Models I have been a nurse since the mid 1980’s and during that time I have witnessed a variety of staffing and onboarding models. In the days of nursing shortages, we were using a team nursing approach where one RN directed the team of LPNs and...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 25 2020
Surviving Sepsis Campaign takes on COVID-19: A Guideline to Managing Critically Ill Patients In December 2019, a novel acute respiratory virus called COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) created an epidemic in Wuhan, China and in a few short months grew to an unprecedented incidence of infection and mortality across the globe leading to a pandemic...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 17 2020
COVID-19: Who Among Us Is At Greatest Risk? First Published: March 17, 2020 Last Update: March 23, 2020 The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has spread swiftly from person-to-person resulting in respiratory illness in thousands of individuals around the world. Now a...
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By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 29 2020
In the Event of Turbulence, One Patient at a Time You are called to a rapid response or a code blue and the patient is in isolation for COVID-19. It takes you several minutes to don your personal protective equipment, delaying life-saving interventions by several minutes. You go in and out of one...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 26 2020
Bringing Back the Team Approach: It’s Time for Alternative Staffing and Onboarding Models I have been a nurse since the mid 1980’s and during that time I have witnessed a variety of staffing and onboarding models. In the days of nursing shortages, we were using a team nursing approach where one RN directed the team of LPNs and...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 17 2020
COVID-19: Who Among Us Is At Greatest Risk? First Published: March 17, 2020 Last Update: March 23, 2020 The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has spread swiftly from person-to-person resulting in respiratory illness in thousands of individuals around the world. Now a...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 2 2020
COVID-19: Rational Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) The shelves are already empty, and those who need personal preventive equipment (PPE) the most will be feeling the effects. Fear and panic are causing members of the public to purchase and stockpile masks and other PPE supplies, and people are...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 10 2020
Human Trafficking: Important Facts & Potential Indicators January 11 is National Human Trafficking Day. Use this infographic to learn the facts and questions to help you identify potential victims. As nurses, we are on the front lines of health care and we have a responsibility to stay informed on this...
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...
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By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 26 2020
Bringing Back the Team Approach: It’s Time for Alternative Staffing and Onboarding Models I have been a nurse since the mid 1980’s and during that time I have witnessed a variety of staffing and onboarding models. In the days of nursing shortages, we were using a team nursing approach where one RN directed the team of LPNs and...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 10 2020
Is Blockchain the New Pathway to Credentialing? For health care providers, credentialing is an important step in establishing a clinical practice and is critical to secure reimbursement from insurance companies and other third-party payers. Professional credentialing is complicated, expensive...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Feb 4 2020
Creating a Positive Nursing Work Environment When I started in my professional nursing career, it was a welcoming experience. Over the past 16 years, I have been fortunate that my coworkers and colleagues in other specialties all work together toward our one common goal – improving the...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 20 2020
Nurses Make Profound Impacts: An Interview with Angelleen Peters Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN [Podcast] In this interview with Angelleen Peters Lewis, PhD, RN, FAAN, Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, we learn three key pieces of advice to help nurses prepare for board...
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...
Technology More
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 10 2020
Is Blockchain the New Pathway to Credentialing? For health care providers, credentialing is an important step in establishing a clinical practice and is critical to secure reimbursement from insurance companies and other third-party payers. Professional credentialing is complicated, expensive...
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...
Inspiration More
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 6 2020
Be the Example: 5 Steps to Heart Health for Nurses We are nurses. We should be healthy, right? We know we should be, but we are also human. Here are some top ways to improve your heart health – starting today. Stop smoking! Do whatever it takes…cut down slowly, go cold-turkey, or get...
By: Christina Gresh, MSN, RN Feb 4 2020
Creating a Positive Nursing Work Environment When I started in my professional nursing career, it was a welcoming experience. Over the past 16 years, I have been fortunate that my coworkers and colleagues in other specialties all work together toward our one common goal – improving the...
By: Lynne Centrella Rudderow, MSN, RN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, CCE Jan 17 2020
12 Ways to Improve Your Time Efficiency Don’t just manage your time, make your time more effective. With the hustle of the holidays behind us and the beginnings of a new year ahead, I have begun to take a deep look inside and reflect on how I can make 2020 a better year. What I...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 1 2020
Celebrate Nursing in 2020 We have much to celebrate as 2020 is the Year of the Nurse & Midwife! Don’t forget to get the following nursing recognition days, weeks, and months for 2020 on your calendar too!*Dates and links will be updated as they become available...
By: Lynne Centrella Rudderow, , MSN, RN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, CCE Dec 24 2019
Holiday Shift The dreaded holiday work schedule… we know the requirement and we remember which “winter holidays” we worked last year, yet there always remains this small glimmer of impossible hope that we will somehow be sprinkled by holiday...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Dec 20 2019
2020 Year of the Nurse & Midwife: Celebrating our Impact in Caring The World Health Organization (WHO) has made a historic move by designating 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife,” which has been supported by leading nurse organizations around the world. With the changes in healthcare we are...
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By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Mar 25 2020
Surviving Sepsis Campaign takes on COVID-19: A Guideline to Managing Critically Ill Patients In December 2019, a novel acute respiratory virus called COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) created an epidemic in Wuhan, China and in a few short months grew to an unprecedented incidence of infection and mortality across the globe leading to a pandemic...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 17 2020
COVID-19: Who Among Us Is At Greatest Risk? First Published: March 17, 2020 Last Update: March 23, 2020 The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has spread swiftly from person-to-person resulting in respiratory illness in thousands of individuals around the world. Now a...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 5 2020
Increased Intracranial Pressure (ICP): What Nurses Need to Know The skull is filled with brain tissue, blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Cerebral autoregulation allows these components to adjust to each other to preserve cerebral blood flow. Intracranial pressure (ICP) is normally ≤15 mmHg in adults...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Feb 27 2020
HDL versus LDL Cholesterol: Understanding the Lipid Profile When we think of heart health, we often think about diet and how we can lower our cholesterol. For our patients, assessing their lipid profile helps determine their risk for cardiovascular disease. The lipid profile also helps to identify patients...
By: Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 17 2020
Calculating Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) is the amount of pressure needed to maintain blood flow to the brain. CPP is regulated by two balanced opposing forces:Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is the driving force that pushes blood into the brain...
By: Lauren Waronker, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Feb 13 2020
Case Study: Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Let’s take what we learned in A Review of the2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and apply the risk assessment tool in a real-life scenario. Remember that the following variables must be considered: age...
Education & Career More
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Apr 3 2020
Adapting to Changes in Clinical & Educational Roles Researchers, retirees, and others who’ve been away from clinical practice now back in scrubs and caring for patients…Dermatologists, gynecologists, orthopedists and others specialty clinicians relocating to COVID-19 testing sites...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 10 2020
Is Blockchain the New Pathway to Credentialing? For health care providers, credentialing is an important step in establishing a clinical practice and is critical to secure reimbursement from insurance companies and other third-party payers. Professional credentialing is complicated, expensive...
By: Emmanuel College, first published on September 11, 2019. Jan 3 2020
Nursing Interview Questions and Answers: What to Expect This article is sponsored by Emmanuel College and was first published on September 11, 2019. Once you’ve completed your nursing program of choice and passed the state licensing exam, there’s one last hurdle to jump before entering the...
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...

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