Articles Tagged With: nurses
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Nurses Self-Report High Levels of Moral Courage, but Few Are Willing to Act Directly
Nurses reported significant social and professional barriers to act in response to an ethical violation, a recent study found.
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Updated ANA Code of Ethics Reflects Today’s Realities; for Ethicists, it Is Another Tool
Every 10 years, the American Nurses Association updates its Code of Ethics for Nurses. The much-anticipated 2025 changes have important implications for nurses, ethicists, and other healthcare providers.
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Effective Ethics Education in Nurse Residency Programs
While directing the nurse residency program at a large midwestern academic teaching hospital, Rebecca West, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, observed that many recent graduates were highly distressed over ethical issues. One new nurse was intensely uncomfortable with completing orders for aggressive treatment for a patient clearly in the process of dying. The nurse did not think to request an ethics consultation. West and colleagues authored a recent paper on the benefits of embedding ethics content in nurse residency programs.
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ED Nurses Would Not Recommend Their Workplace Because of Safety, Staffing Concerns
Emergency nurses are much more likely to report high burnout, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave compared to inpatient nurses, according to a recent analysis of nurses practicing in 60 U.S. hospitals.
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Emergency Nurses Face Barriers to Serious Illness Conversations
Emergency nurses view lack of privacy, concerns about delayed patient throughput, and perceived difficulty as barriers to having serious illness conversations with patients in the emergency department (ED) setting, a recent study found.
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Brief Intervention Reduces Nurses’ Compassion Fatigue
A group of researchers evaluated how a brief mindfulness-based intervention affected compassion fatigue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Is ED Patient Rude or Insulting? Risk Mitigation Needed
Patients who behave in this manner could be at risk for a missed diagnosis caused by poor communication with the treatment team. They may be so difficult to tolerate that they receive less attention and nursing care than they would have otherwise. The best approach is to recognize the risks with these types of patients and mitigate them.
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Government Commits Funding to Grow U.S. Nursing Workforce
HHS announces $100 million to hire more nurse educators, train new nurses, and help current nurses elevate their careers.
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Practice Alert Provides Critical Care Nurses Safety Tips for Prone Positioning
The technique that became well known during the COVID-19 pandemic remains a standard tactic for managing acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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The Vanishing Nurse: Staff, Patients in Peril
Around 1 million nurses may leave the field in the next few years, leaving the perennial “most trusted” profession absent at the bedside. The exodus was triggered by a pandemic, entrenched by a haphazard response, and then revealed in demographics that indicate the old are retiring and the young are leaving early.