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Retirement Opportunities That Allow Nurses to “Do More”
Sep 25, 2018
When Ellen Elpern, MSN, RN, retired, she was eager to invest more time and energy in her profession. She also wanted to maintain a connection to the medical center where she spent almost 40 years providing inpatient care. But she soon discovered that few volunteer positions are more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Encore Performance: Retired Nurses Find Fulfillment Through Volunteering
Sep 20, 2018
Charting Nursing’s Future profiles four retired nurses who are staying active and continuing to contribute to their communities through volunteer work. Three are making sure that people with economic, social or emotional challenges gain access to the supports they need to build more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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Don’t Let Myths About HIPAA Get in the Way of Good Care
Sep 06, 2018
Approximately 40 million family caregivers assume responsibility for the health of loved ones. They bring patients to hospital emergency rooms, drive patients between providers and pharmacies, and oversee at-home care. In many cases, they manage complex medication regimens, more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities
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What Nurses Do
Aug 30, 2018
My work on Charting Nursing’s Future brings me into contact with nurses crunching workforce data, monitoring disease outbreaks, and saving lives in the aftermath of natural disasters—activities that all occur outside the walls of traditional health care settings. And in the more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Location: National
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Nurse Brings Big Picture Mindset to School Board
Aug 24, 2018
Tracey Smith, DNP, PHCNS-BC, MS, is associate professor of family and community medicine and director of population health and community outreach at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She is vice more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Illinois National
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Nurse Practitioners Help Keep the Roads Safe—Why Not the Rails and Skies?
Jul 02, 2018
Nurse anesthetist Steven Wooden, DNP, CRNA, NSPM, relies on his private plane and pilot’s license to effectively provide anesthesia services in rural Nebraska. He’s logged more than 40,000 flight miles while providing anesthesia coverage to at least nine hospitals, some as far as 200 miles from his home. more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National
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Shirley Nathan-Pulliam: A Nurse Turned Maryland Legislator
Jun 26, 2018
Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, RN, BSN, MAS, grew up in Jamaica, began her nursing studies in England, and then settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2014, she has represented District 44, which includes parts of Baltimore County and Baltimore City, in the Maryland Senate. She spent the more
Issues: Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: Maryland National
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Nurse Practitioners Help Truckers Keep on Trucking
Jun 25, 2018
Truck drivers with three or more medical conditions are at least twice as likely as healthier drivers to be involved in a crash. Nurse practitioners who perform DOT physicals promote both health and safety. The goal: more
Issues: Building Healthier Communities Improving Access to Care Promoting Nursing Leadership Location: National