The Article: Luo, J., Chen, Y., Narsavage, G. L., and Ducatman, A. (2012). Predictors of survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. Oncology Nursing Forum, 39(6): 609-616. Big Idea: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths both in... Read More
A little bit of alphabet soup, I know. If you’re in healthcare, those credentials still may not be familiar to you. March propels us into Spring. It also gives us a chance to recognize and honor several team members, specifically... Read More
The Article: Moneke, N. & Umeh, O. (2013). How leadership behaviors impact critical care nurse job satisfaction. Nursing Management, 44(1): 53-55. The Big Idea: Nurses’ job satisfaction is correlated with many organizational, financial, and patient health outcomes. The authors of... Read More
Four years ago Diane Forster-Burke, MS, RN, professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, was looking for a way to recharge her teaching and utilize different education strategies to drive home the ethics of every day healthcare decisions nurses and... Read More
The Article: Johnson, J.E., Mastro, K.A., & Smith, A.L. (2012). From Toyota to the bedside: Nurses can lead the lean way in health care reform. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 36(3), 234-42. Big Idea: The Toyota Production System of the 1960’s produced a new quality and... Read More
Love isn’t in the falling; it’s in the staying. I fell in love with nursing in nursing school. At one point in my career, I despised it, though. It was right around the infamous two-year mark. I questioned whether I... Read More
Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation will being quarterly publishing in June 2013. The journal, touted as the first of its kind to offer research on direct clinical care innovation, or the “how” of healthcare, will be free online... Read More
Rob Fraser, MN, RN, over at NursingIdeas is fanning the nursing learning-sharing-learning cycle flames through his Nursing Research Challenge. I’m absolutely recommitting my passion for The Challenge. I hope you do the same. I want to learn from you!... Read More
It’s an insidious, torturous death. I’m neither willing to be its victim nor will I allow its chilling fate for those around me.... Read More