Most Fridays I post snippets of articles I am reading. Today’s announcement deserves its own lime-light, though, so pay attention colleagues and nursing students! One of my favorite places to access free, high-quality, full-text nursing journal articles is Lippincott’s NursingCenter.com.... Read More
Through blogging I have found an interest in blogs and their relationship to nursing – how they impact us, our patients, and how we impact the blogosphere. I was able to share that passion with others at the 36th Annual... Read More
The Article: Salz, T., Oeffinger, K., McCabe, M., Layne, T., & Bach, P. (2012). Survivorship care plans in research and practice. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 62(2): 101-116. Big Idea: Recommended by the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) and now... Read More
Article: Staiger, D. O., Auerbach, D. I., & Buerhaus, P. I. (2012). Registered nurse labor supply and the recession. – Are we in a bubble? New England Journal of Medicine, published online ahead of print March 21, 2012. Big Idea:... Read More
The Article: Westerfield, H. V., Stafford, A. B., Gabel-Speroni, K., Daniel, M. (2012). Patients’ perceptions of patient care providers with tattoos and/or body piercings. Journal of Nursing Administration, 42(3): 160-164. Big Idea: This study examines the computer survey results of... Read More
The Article: von Mutius, E. and Drazen, J. (2012). A patient with asthma seeks medical advice in 1828, 1928, and 2012. The New England Journal of Medicine, 366: 827-834. Big Idea: One thing is for sure – change is constant,... Read More
The Article: Fenton, J. J., Jerant, A. F., Bertakis, K. D., Franks, P. (2012). The cost of satisfaction: A national study of patient satisfaction, health care utilization, expenditures, and mortality. Archives of Internal Medicine, published ahead of print at http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/archinternmed.2011.1662.... Read More
The Article: Sherman, R. O., Schwarzkopf, R., & Kiger, A. J. (2011). Charge nurse perspectives on frontline leadership in acute care environments. ISRN Nursing, 1-8. Big Idea: The recent IOM Future of Nursing report urges that nurses at all levels... Read More
In honor of National Wear Red Day: The Article: Boo, S., Waters, C., & Froelicher, E.S. (2012). Coronary heart disease risk estimation in asymptomatic adults. Nursing Research, 61(1): 66-69. Big Idea: This article discusses how to use the Framingham Risk... Read More
The Article: Effken, J. A., Verran, J. A., Logue, M. D., & Hsu, Y. (2010). Nurse managers’ decisions: Fast and favoring remediation. Journal of Nursing Administration, 40(4): 188-195. Big Idea: This article explores how 10 nurse managers within three Arizona... Read More