Oct 28, 2022
“Work culture is really how people work together. But in my opinion, there are three major components: it’s the employer, it’s the leadership, and it’s the staff—all staff, we’re not only talking nurses. We know that it takes a village to really make clinical care happen. All three of those components are...
Oct 21, 2022
“A lot of healthcare workers that I talk to say that they are kind of brought up with the culture that violence is part of the job. It’s not your job to take abuse,” Chris Snyder, University of Utah Health security manager for the University of Utah Department of Public Safety in Salt Lake City, told Lenise...
Oct 14, 2022
“Oftentimes, local policy changes are the ones that are going to influence your day-to-day practice most directly—and are the ones where your voice has the most power because you’re closer to the decision makers. There are so many ways for nurses to become involved in advocacy, and it can be simple things just...
Oct 7, 2022
“Consider your patient’s diagnosis. What kind of cancer do they have? And ask yourself, ‘Could this patient be in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)? Is there something more that we should be doing or looking at?’” Leslie Smith, RN, APRN-CNS, DNP, BMTCN®, AOCNS®, oncology clinical specialist at the...