American Nurse Journal: Recent Episodes
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American Nurse Journal, the official, clinically and career-focused journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a fresh voice of nursing across America. The printed journal reaches more than 175,000 dedicated nurses in a multitude of specialties and practice settings, and the site serves nearly four millions visitors each year. American Nurse Journal is a peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). CINAHL databases are the most widely-used and respected research tools for nurses, students and allied health professionals around the globe.
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Course Objectives/Takeaways:
- Review pathophysiology, diagnosis, management and incidence of prevalent malignancy.
- Describe how the nurse, pharmacist collaboration can ensure patient-centered care planning within the oncology setting.
- Examine the patient’s oncology experience and how the nurse-pharmacist team can help to navigate the patient and family journey.
- Gain a greater awareness of the individualized issues that affect the patient and family throughout the oncology experience.
- Learn about how to empower the patient by promoting a patient-centered care plan that ensures optimal outcomes.
- Explore how the nurse and specialty pharmacist can collaborate when seeking patient and family resources used to educate and provide support.
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Part 2: Challenging and Inspiring: Beyond Common Fall Prevention Practices
American Nurse Journal is thrilled to announce the second part of our two-part webinar series focused on enhancing nurses’ knowledge in patient fall prevention and the application of new best practices. This session will feature prominent patient safety experts Lillee Smith Gelinas, DNP, RN, CPPS, FNAP, FAAN, and Patricia A. Quigley, PhD, APRN, CRRN, FAAN, FAANP, FARN.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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American Nurse Journal is excited to announce a two-part webinar series focused on enhancing nurses’ knowledge related to patient fall prevention and application of new best practices, featuring prominent patient safety experts Lillee Smith Gelinas, DNP, RN, CPPS, FNAP, FAAN, and Patricia A. Quigley, PhD, APRN, CRRN, FAAN, FAANP, FARN.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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Foot health is tied to our overall health in many ways. The foot’s complex structure, with 26 bones and 33 joints, works to properly carry you an average of 115,000 miles in your lifetime! Given this complexity, it will come as no surprise that 75% of Americans will experience foot problems such as plantar fasciitis, hammer toes, hyperhidrosis/odor, bunions, and toenail disorders (the most common foot problem). While caring for the foot issues of the general population, most nurses will take at least 9,000 steps per shift. This session reviews how nurses can protect their feet and circulation as well as those of their patients.
Dr. Laura Swoboda DNP, APNP, FNP-C, FNP-BC, CWOCN-AP, WOCNF
Nurse Practitioner, Professor of Health & Translational Sciences, The Healing Institute
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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Zac Shepherd, RN shares an impactful and emotional story experience.
Learn more about what to expect if you are considering travel nursing as a career option. Get tips on getting started, interviews and contracts, assignments and living arrangements, and working with a new team. Learn More…
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar has been developed and is sponsored by: Assured Financial Services
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With the new AHA Guidelines looming, there are questions around how and when to use temperature management protocols and devices. This is occurring in all clinical settings, including the ICU, ED and OR. Join us in this educational webinar as we share the latest information on temperature management guidelines as it pertains to the AHA and normothermia. Additionally, we will share best practices for implementing these principles with Stryker devices. Learn more…
Course Objectives:
- Clarify the new AHA guidelines and what this means for patient therapy.
- Discuss the importance of maintaining normothermia in the OR
- How to implement these clinical principles with devices
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar has been developed and is sponsored by: Stryker
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There can be constant questions and confusion from patients and clients about low- and no-calorie sweeteners (LNCS). How do I use them? Are they all the same? How do I know they are safe? How do LNCS impact my health?
LNCS are being used more widely as new food, beverage, and supplement products are innovated. Consumers are seeking the help of healthcare professionals to determine the difference between eye-catching headlines and evidence-based science. Healthcare professionals have an opportunity to help their patients and clients make informed decisions about what LNCS are the best for their overall health and well-being.
Join Dr. Wendy Wright, nurse practitioner, explore LNCS safety and regulation, options, and trends, and ways your patients can use LNCS to achieve their health goals. Learn More…
After completing this activity, healthcare professionals will better be able to:
- Summarize why LNCS are a safe and effective replacement for added sugar.
- Explain how LNCS are regulated and differentiate between different types of LNCS.
- Interpret the body of literature related to the safety and efficacy of LNCS.
- Demonstrate appropriate uses of LNCS as a substitute to added sugar.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar has been developed and is sponsored by: Splenda
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Nurses always have been…and will continue to be…at the forefront of healthcare. Pandemics, increased healthcare needs, and lack of resources have resulted in serious consequences for the nursing workforce, including staff shortages, compensation inequities, unrelieved moral suffering, burnout, and collective grief. The public, and by extension healthcare leaders and organizations, may assume that nurses will continue to serve — regardless of the circumstances — believing that their commitment to patients will take precedence over their own welfare and that they will continue to fill the gaps in stressed or dysfunctional systems. Now is the time for nurses to stand tall and proud for what they contribute to the nation’s health. Join us to learn how to share the value of your professional expertise and build a better future for nursing. Learn More…
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- how all nurses have the opportunity to reshape the perception and image of nursing. We’ll follow the journey to where we are as a profession and what we can do about it.
- empowering language to help educate patients and the general public so they better understand nursing competence, knowledge, clinical judgement, and innovation.
- actions all nurses can take to help re-imagine nursing’s relationship with the public as a social covenant rather than a social contract.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar has been developed and is sponsored by: American Nurse and SUNY Delhi
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As more and more patients enter the hospital through the ED, emergency nurses are not only tasked with saving lives in emergencies – but they’re also responsible for keeping patients safe from adverse outcomes such as falls. In this informational webinar we will share eye-opening statistics, discuss human and financial costs of falls, identify risk factors and interventions, and focus on evidence-based practices in the utilization of technology for prevention of patient falls.
Course Objectives:
- Distinguish between the different types of falls
- Discuss human and financial costs of a fall
- Identify ED-specific risk factors for falls
- Discuss evidence-based fall prevention practices in the emergency department
- Discuss integration of technology into fall and injury prevention practices
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar has been developed and is sponsored by: Stryker and American Nurse
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Nursing has a long history in America and is one of the hardest and most selfless careers a person can choose. American Nurse Heroes looks into the lives and careers of these health care professionals selflessly working during the pandemic.
American Nurse Heroes was produced during the Covid-19 pandemic and is available to watch OnDemand at https://www.myamericannurse.com and https://www.americannurseheroes.com
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Clinical practice is ever changing, especially related to medication safety and the prevention of adverse events. Are you using the latest evidence and best practices to protect your patients as well as your nursing practice? Learn about nurse accountability in today’s interdisciplinary, teamwork-based care systems. Panelists will also discuss risk, liability, and culture of safety strategies that focus on error prevention.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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Mindful communication between leadership and staff…Sharing perspectives from both roles
Our words have power! As we all strive to optimize our workplaces on many levels – from keeping nurses and patients safe, optimizing patient outcomes, and creating a positive work environment to keeping our organizations profitable – effective communication between leadership and staff has become more important than ever. Staff engagement is key to providing optimal patient care as well as understanding who, what, and why leaders need to make changes that impact staff investment in their roles.
OBJECTIVES:
- Identify strategies to close the communication gaps between front line staff nurses and nurse executives
- Share exemplars of successful communication techniques from front line staff nurses and their nurse executives
- Describe the positive outcomes that result from mindful communication between front line staff nurses and nurse executives
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Kirby Bates Associates. Content has been created independently of the sponsor.
For more information about our sponsor go to www.kirbybates.com.
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Due to cognitive overload, roughly 80% of medical-device user errors occur. In addition, persistent cognitive overload contributes to fatigue, burnout, and practice dissatisfaction among nurses and other clinical team members. Hospital systems and clinical leaders are challenged with creating environments and systems to help lift some of the burden placed on healthcare professionals. In this course, we’ll discuss system wide solutions to address these challenges, and in particular, how technology can play a pivotal role in lightening the load, and the positive impacts these changes have on nurse wellbeing, and patient care.
Course Objectives:
- The three different types of cognitive load
- The factors that contribute to cognitive overload
- How a heavy cognitive load impacts nurses and patients
- Solutions to address cognitive overload
- How technology can help lighten the load
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
This webinar has been developed and is sponsored by: Stryker and American Nurse
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Work smarter with advances in smart pump technology which can improve patient safety and provide efficiencies in nursing care delivery. In this session learn more about advances in technology that can help you reduce errors and better protect your patients.
Objectives
- Discuss current smart infusion pump capabilities.
- Discuss benefits and current challenges in the use of smart pumps.
- Describe innovations in technology that can improve safety, workflow, and usability while eliminating error prone manual tasks.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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Part 1 of a webinar series for nurses by nurses
Objectives
- Define misinformation and disinformation in health care.
- Discuss the nurse’s role in stopping the spread of misinformation.
- Describe organizational roles and support systems essential to addressing misinformation.
The spread of misinformation has a harmful health impact on personal and public health. The creation and spread of falsehoods is a serious threat to nursing practice and patient safety. Nurses, cited as the most trusted profession for their honest and ethical standards, have a critical responsibility to combat misinformation among patients, families, and communities. This session will address what nurses need to know about misinformation and disinformation in health care, how to identify and access credible, trusted health sources and implement practical ways to ensure ethical, evidence-based nursing care in their organizations.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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Registered Nurse Gabriela Bren joins Andrew Wheeler for a 1-on-1 on her double life as a registered nurse and NFL Cheerleader. Bren explains her daily life during an NFL season, how she manages her time, what the Philadelphia Eagles do to accommodate her, and many other stories about her life. #eagles #philadelphiaeagles #cheerleader #nurses #nursing #nurse #healthcare #ICU #TraumaNurse
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The importance of a collaborative treatment strategy for adult patients living with schizophrenia, rooted in taking a holistic approach and establishing trusting relationships.
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In this podcast, Cheryl Mee MSN, MBA, RN, FAAN, Executive Editorial Director of the American Nurse Journal describes the value of peer in developing journal content, and how you can get started in becoming a peer reviewer for the journal.
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- Identify roadblocks that stop potential nurse authors from submitting a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed nursing journal.
- Outline strategies to help nursing authors overcome their fears and improve their writing.
- Identify steps in the writing and editorial process—from ideation to publication.
YOUR HOST:
Cheryl L Mee, MSN, MBA, RN, FAAN
Executive Editorial DirectorAmerican Nurse Journal
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Clinical Nurse Consultant Carley Gardner shares research and evidence-based practices in patient mobility and pressure injury prevention. Participants will be introduced to early mobility concepts and rationale as well as the effects of early mobilization on improved skin outcomes, specifically focusing on bed and support surface technology integration. The webinar focuses on the adult critical care population, while also including guiding principles of mobility and pressure injury prevention that span the continuum of acute care.
This webinar was recorded on September 29th 2021. Thank you to our sponsor Stryker.
This webinar and others can be watched at: https://www.myamericannurse.com/webinars
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The critical need for experienced nurses in the field of informatics—particularly in the growing age of AI and IT influence on medicine and patient care.
The complex field of Nursing Informatics is defined as taking “the clinical and the technical languages of health and translating them into one.” Nursing Informaticists hold the power to:
- Utilize and expand nurses' influence and impact from floor-specific to a wider community of care
- Leverage technology and clinical expertise in order to maintain the focus on patient safety
- Apply data to stem the nation’s opioid crisis
- Expand outreach to underserved patient populations in the community
The panel will relate under-reported, real-world cases to highlight how attainment of an advanced degree in Nursing Informatics uniquely equips the mid-career nurse to join an area of the nursing profession that is revolutionizing the redesign of healthcare in the United States.
This webinar was recorded on May 27th 2021. Thank you to our sponsor WGU.
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Learn the history and details behind the critical surge in the need for Advanced Practice RNs (APRNs) and particularly Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs). We will explore all of the “why’s:"
- The existing and projected needs gap
- How APRNs and FNPs became documented as the most needed of the advanced nursing degrees
- The fiscal potential and increased clinical and professional autonomy enjoyed by FNPs
This will be followed by an item-by-item examination of research exploring the challenges to nurses’ pursuit of these advanced degrees, their commonality within the nursing community, plus the potential of the degree’s attainment and reward in recognition, remuneration, and clinical respect.
Finally, our panel will examine the added societal value of filling gaps in primary care practitioner roles within underserved areas.
This webinar is the first in a two-part series that will address the growing need for advanced practice nurses in today's healthcare environment and how nurses will play a critical role in the future as interprofessional practice continues to unfold.
This webinar was recorded on April 29th 2021. Thank you to our sponsor WGU.
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With the nurse shortage at crisis levels even before the pandemic hit, what are the flaws or shortcomings of conventional approaches to staffing that keep nurse leaders chronically in “firefighter mode”? While a great majority of healthcare organizations cite nurse retention as a key strategic imperative, only a little over a third of them have actually implemented a formal retention strategy. Why isn’t nurse retention more reflected in actual operational practices or planning?
Join Bryan Dickerson, Senior Director of Healthcare Workforce Solutions at Hospital IQ, Shawna Gunn, Manager of Operations at MercyOne, Des Moines, and Danielle Bowie, DNP, RN, NE-BC, Vice President of Nursing Workforce Development at Bon Secours Mercy Health, Cincinnati, OH, as we discuss:
- What the healthcare industry can learn from other industries
- What are the opportunities and benefits of predictive analytics that can be leveraged to alleviate the nurse leaders’ constant staffing chase
- See how leveraging technology can streamline both communications and preplanning, enabling nurse leaders to make proactive adjustments faster and more efficiently
This webinar was recorded on January 26th 2021. Thank you to our sponsor Hospital IQ.
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The nursing community was shocked and saddened with the conviction of former RN RaDonda Vaught for criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult because she mistakenly administered vecuronium rather than Versed to a 75-year-old woman awaiting an imaging procedure. The patient died.
Nurses are at the sharp end of errors, the point where the error reaches the patient, and are therefore vulnerable to blame. How can the healthcare systems better protect caregivers at the sharp end and the patients in their care from harm?
The panel discusses key issues related to the Vaught case, including the impact on the reporting of near misses and adverse events, nursing retention, and public perception about medical error. The immediate, short- and long-term impact of serious adverse effects on everyone involved will be outlined.
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