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Promoting health literacy

American Nurse

The Health Care Education Association offers open source guidelines to help healthcare providers develop effective and efficient patient education. Do you have beliefs or feelings related to your health condition that we need to know so we can help you learn to care for yourself?” “Do Do you know anyone who has this condition?”

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Nurses Revolutionizing Healthcare

American Nurse

Nurses are also instrumental in improving access to quality care, implementing technology, taking on new roles, addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), and leading the way in revolutionizing healthcare. Nurses play a crucial role in improving access to quality healthcare by creating opportunities for interdisciplinary care.

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A call for healthy role models

American Nurse

Are nurse leaders serving as good examples of self-care? Takeaways: Nurse leaders must advocate for clinical nurses’ self-health and develop and support programs to ensure a healthy work-life balance for today’s workforce. We measured health risk based on BMI.

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Empowering Tomorrow’s Nurses: Building Resilience for a Fulfilling Career

American Nurse

The intensity of nursing education often stretches students to their limits, preparing them for the realities of patient care. New Mexico needs an additional 5,704 registered nurses (RNs) to meet the national benchmark of 92 RNs per 10,000 population (New Mexico Health Care Workforce Committee, 2023). With 42.5% 2021; Hughes et al.,

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Medication safety

American Nurse

Understanding why guidelines are developed and used in clinical practice promotes safe, competent drug selection and use. The CDC’s Healthy People 2030 indicated that annual adverse drug events (ADEs) or harm resulting from medication errors had led to 1.3 Other reports have claimed annual mortality numbers to be as high as 440,000.

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Continuing Nursing Education: Why?

American Nurse

This is supported by the ANA Code of Ethics for nurses, which states in provision 5 that the nurse “owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to …maintain competence and continue personal and professional growth” (ANA, 2015, p. The future of nursing 2020-2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity.

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What Is Virtual Physical Therapy? How It Works and Benefits

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

A study published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery showed that telerehabilitation was similarly effective as traditional care for patients recovering from total knee arthroplasty. 6 The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) advocates for telehealth as an effective and viable method for delivering patient care.