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Remedying role confusion: Differentiating RN and LPN roles
In today’s constantly changing healthcare system, a key challenge is to better define, differentiate, and demarcate the roles of the registered nurse (RN) and licensed practical nurse (LPN). For years...
What's in a title?
You’ve just accompanied a family member to a medical appointment and noted the staff member performing the intake is wearing a name tag saying “nurse.” You are curious as to which nu...
2008 state legislative wrap-up
The 2008 elections were historic. Voters on November 4 left their mark on the state political landscape, shifting the partisan control of state government in a dozen states. Democrats gained control o...
Remedying role confusion: Differentiating RN and LPN roles selected references
American Nurses Association. Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Washington, D.C.: Nursesbooks.org; 2004.
American Nurses Association. Principles for Delegation. 2005. www.nursingworld.org/Ma...
Seeking staffing solutions
In intensive care units (ICUs), staffing ratios—the ratio of one nurse-care provider to patients—have been standardized for 30 years. In almost any ICU, one registered nurse (RN) cares for...
Delegating without doubts
On a busy evening, Shannon, a registered nurse, is assigned to care for eight hospital patients. Because her unit is short-staffed, Jordan, an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), has floated from an...
Using catheter techniques to deliver analgesia
After a left total-knee replacement, Elaine Lee, age 58, is receiving a femoral perineural infusion of ropivacaine, a local anesthetic. On her first morning postoperatively, her pain rating is low, bu...
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...
Hospice and palliative care
Several years ago, Linda, a 37-year old graphic artist, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her disease took a roller-coaster course: diagnosis followed by radiation and chemotherapy, then lymphoma...
Urge Congress to invest in nursing. Oppose the Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act.
Urge Congress to invest in nursing The American Nurses Association (ANA) is seeking an increase of $25 million in FY 2007 funding for the Nursing Workforce Development programs administered by the Hea...
To make health care better, I would...
To make health care better, I would...
...mandate every patient have a primary RN who knows the patient’s past health history, socioeconomic status, health risks, medications, and potential interacti...
Protecting yourself from malpractice claims
Have you ever been called to give a deposition for a lawsuit? Do you wonder what it would be like to be sued for malpractice? Want to know how to reduce your chance of being named in a malpractice sui...
Archived webinar on teaching IOM reports in the classroom now available on ANA's NursesBooks.org
On February 23, more than 350 educators from top U.S. nursing schools tuned in to view Nursesbooks.org’s one-hour webinar featuring ANA’s popular quality title, Teaching IOM: Implications of the Insti...
Mission: Achieve continual readiness for Joint Commission surveys
It’s 8:30 A.M. Monday, and the hospital is bustling. The operating room has a heavy schedule. Six emergency-department patients have been admitted and await open beds. All of a sudden, you hear “Code ...
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...
Nursing student support group ease stress
Nursing school can cause a tremendous
amount of stress, which may lead some students
to drop out. Dropout rates for community
colleges can range from 18% to 20%.
Like other people under significan...
Note from the Publisher
Dear Reader:
Welcome to the debut issue of American Nurse Today. . .ONLINE! YOU have spoken and we are responding! Over the last 6 months, American Nurse Today has been conducting research through ...
Take Note - May 2008
One in four U.S. teenage girls has an STD According to a recent federal study, one in four American teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease (STD), even though only about half of the girls in...
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...
Getting a clearer picture on delegation
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton evoked the African proverb “It takes a village to raise a child” to stress the importance of a collective approach to meeting children’s wide-ranging needs....
Environment, health, and safety
Nurses today are indeed challenged to do no harm to
the sick as well as the healthy—just in the course of
daily life and work.
Our hospitals use toxic chemicals to treat patients,
to clean, to dis...
Model act helps out-of-state healthcare professionals volunteer during distasters
During the 2005 hurricane season, many healthcare professionals seeking to volunteer their services to Gulf Coast residents were seriously delayed and, in some cases, prevented from doing so because t...
CMA lobbyists discuss hot topics in the states
Although many states are projecting budget shortfalls for the next fiscal year, patient safety, health care, safe staffing, and nursing advancement will be top legislative priorities for many ANA Cons...
Do you remember when?
It’s time for new nursing graduates to join your work environment. Will you be a supportive colleague of their entry into the profession? Will you go out of your way to make them feel welcome? W...
Taking a seat at ANA's policy-making table
I am looking forward to 2007 being another banner year for the American Nurses Association (ANA) as we continue our efforts to advance the nursing profession through policy development and disseminati...