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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Oct 15 2020
Nursing, Tech, and Hackathons: A Conversation with Molly McCarthy, MBA, RN-BC Molly K. McCarthy MBA, RN-BC is the Managing Director, US Provider/Plans and Chief Nursing Officer for Microsoft. I had the pleasure of speaking with Molly about her journey in nursing, her work for Microsoft, nurses and board membership, and the...
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...
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...
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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...
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