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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 28 2011
8 Rights of Medication Administration Chances are that some of you may not have known that in addition to the well-known 5 right of medication administration, some experts have added 3 more to the list. When it comes to patient safety, it’s never a bad time to review some of the...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 13 2011
Building Skills and Celebrating the NP of the Year at NCNP The National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP), sponsored by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, the publisher of The Nurse Practitioner Journal, is well under way at the Las Vegas Hilton. NCNP began on Wednesday, May 11 with a keynote...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 10 2011
Nurses and Librarians, Partnering for Better Patient Outcomes How visible is your institution's librarian? Does your librarian participate in your leadership meetings, your unit council meetings or your journal club meetings? Does your librarian make rounds on a routine basis with the nursing staff and...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 10 2011
Thank you from one nurse to another nurse Another Nurses Week has made its way to us. It's amazing how fast time goes by as we get older. Nurses Week this year is a little different that previous years for me. My mom was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer  2 months ago. She...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 3 2011
Back to reality I just returned from Italy - an absolutely glorious vacation…the people, the culture, the food…wonderful!!! I am now settling back in to home and work routines and got to thinking about how different this transition is for those of...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Apr 14 2011
Decisions, decisions Living wills. Life support. Do-Not-Resuscitate. These are all phrases that I used frequently working in an adult medical intensive care unit. I rarely had trouble using the words death, dying, hospice, or end-of-life with patients and families...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 31 2011
Read these award-winners! Okay, so I know the words of this title should be hanging in an elementary school somewhere (and probably are), but think about all the reading you do as a nurse. It’s a lot, isn’t it?From the big textbooks in nursing school to...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 28 2011
The Future of Nursing Roundtable On March 22, 2011, the Editors-in-Chief of the top LWW nursing journals got together for a roundtable discussion about the Institute of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Report on the Future of Nursing. For those of you who listened...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 27 2011
At home in a hospital I love a hospital. There I said it. Now I know “love” is a strong word, but a recent trip over to our local hospital for an x-ray evoked some strong feelings in me. I miss it. I really do. The patients, the beeps, the smells, the...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 20 2011
Six-second strip It was Sunday night, 7 pm, and I was just starting my third 12-hour shift in a row. I was happy to see my assignment was the same as the previous two nights - two fairly stable patients. One was a “challenge-to-wean” patient who was...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 13 2011
Read, read, read! Okay, so I know the words of this title should be hanging in an elementary school somewhere (and probably are), but think about all the reading you do as a nurse. It’s a lot, isn’t it?From the big textbooks in nursing school to...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 7 2011
Patient Safety This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual education and awareness campaign led by the National Patient Safety Foundation. I did a quick search of articles from our nursing journals to bring you some of the great content we have related...
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