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What does a Nursing Professional Development Specialist (Nurse Educator) do?
Let’s assume for a moment that you just graduated from nursing school. You have a brand new degree, a little clinical hospital training, lots of new information, and a brief job as a nursing assistant...
What goes into your professional portfolio & what you'll get out of it
What is a professional portfolio? Let’s start with what it is not. It’s not a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV).Think of it this way: A résumé or CV is a summary of your ...
Spotting alcohol and substance abuse
Some 22.5 million Americans ages 12 and older have an alcohol or substance abuse problem, but only 2.3 million receive treatment. To identify and help the other 20 million, some primary care provider...
AMERICAN NURSE TODAY WINS TWO ASHPE AWARDS
American Nurse Today, the official journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), today announced that its June 2009 cover, Autism Today, has been named “Best Cover” by the American Society of Heal...
Staff development educators: Helping to improve patient outcomes
Nurses have long focused on providing high-quality, evidence-based care to help achieve better patient outcomes—and staff development educators are crucial to this endeavor. We asked Barbara Bru...
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Cardiovascular nursing: Dynamic and in demand
February is Cardiovascular Professionals Month. To mark the occasion, American Nurse Today asked Joanna D. Sikkema, MSN, ANP, President of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA), to d...
Q&A with the Executive Director of AWHONN
In May, we celebrate Nurses’ Week, Women’s Health Week, and Mother’s Day. In the spirit of these celebrations, we asked Joseph C. Isaacs, CAE, Executive Director of the Association o...
Psychiatric nurses are in demand
Built on therapeutic communication and relationship development, psychiatric nursing is the basis of all nursing. A core healthcare profession, psychiatric nursing provides primary mental-health care ...
How about a career in nursing informatics?
Do you have an aptitude for information technology (IT)? Would you like to help transform health care and bridge the gap between IT and nursing practice? If so, consider a career in nursing informatic...
Collaboration brings an innovative approach to nursing education
The gap between a student’s preparation for practice and the practice requirements for a new registered nurse troubles educators and experienced nurses alike. The problem stems partly from the f...
Letters to the Editor - May 2009
Speaking of psychic experiences
Beth Wechsler’s article “A word about patients’ psychic experiences: Listen” in the March issue deserves to be widely read and discussed. The extrasensory experiences ...
Why go back for a baccalaureate degree?
If you’re a diploma or associate-degree nurse, you’ve probably asked yourself the question: Should I go back to school for my baccalaureate degree?
The answer depends, in part, on your goals: Where d...
Introducing the new voice of nurses
Welcome to the premier issue of American Nurse Today—the official journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the new voice for today’s nurses in all specialties and practice sett...
Why you need an electronic professional portfolio
You can think of an electronic professional portfolio as being similar to an electronic health record. An electronic health record captures all the clinical conditions and interventions over the cours...
Putting theory into practice: Six Steps to Sucess
In theory, evidence-informed practice makes perfect sense. The challenge is putting it into practice.How do you create a practice environment supported by current scientific evidence? How do you acqui...
Travel nursing: Is it right for you?
A number of readers have written us with questions about travel nursing. For answers to these questions, we turned to an expert in the field—Dr. Franklin Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN. What are the mai...
Letters to the Editor - January 2007
Casualties of warMy mother read “Nursing Care on the Battlefield” in the November issue with great interest.As an Army Nurse in World War II, she knows all too well the casualties of war. ...
Facing up to widespread obesity
There’s really no way to sugarcoat it: Obesity has become an epidemic in America. Children and adults today weigh more than ever. About two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. And...
Letters to the Editor - April 2008
The importance of sharing cultural knowledge Daniel Yourk's article, "Nursing in Afghanistan: A cultural perspective" (February) was excellent. His recommendation that nurses publish their experienc...
The elusive cure
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. To urge you to focus on early detection, we’ve devoted our cover article and continuing education module to breast cancer. We all have our stories—...
Headlines from the Hill
As one of three nurses in Congress, Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30) has been a champion for nursing, introducing and cosponsoring bills to advance the nursing profession. One example is...
Tme magnetic matrix: Building blocks of Magnet™ hospitals
Even during a nursing shortage, building magnetism into a healthcare environment promotes better patient outcomes, lower mortality rates, and higher patient satisfaction. Although Magnet™ hospit...
Principles to live and work by: ANA Crafts document toguide RNs in environmental health practice
There’s an old saying, you are what you eat. You also may be what you’re exposed to—and for nurses, that’s quite a lot. Looking at the big picture, about 100,000 chemicals are ...
March of Dimes releases new nursing education modules
The March of Dimes has released three new nursing education modules:
Diabetes in Pregnancy, 4th Edition;
Genetic Issues for Perinatal Nurses, 3rd Edition; and
Preterm Infants: Transition to Home ...
Our Readers Respond
Nursing academics vs.
practicing nurses?
My blood boiled when I read ANA President Patton’s column “Is diagnosis of pressure ulcers within an RN’s scope of practice?”(January 2010). It describes
a ...