Year of the Nurse and Midwife
The Global Power of Nurses
Nurse and patient safety
Patient safety encompasses a wide variety of specific issues as well as overall approaches and considerations. This collection illustrates some of the many facets of the topic, with articles ranging from common safety issues to broader perspectives on safety.
Patient safety collection
Could emotional intelligence make patients safer?
Multidrug-resistant organisms and contact precautions
Nurse-to-patient ratio: How many is too many?
[Guideline summary] Safe medication use in the ICU
[Nursing pocket card] Assessing fall risk and reducing falls
CE: Original research: Exploring how nursing schools handle student errors and near misses
CE: Original research: Errors in postoperative administration of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia: A retrospective study
CE: Original research: Antineoplastic drug administration by pregnant and nonpregnant nurses: An exploration of the use of protective gloves and gowns
CE: Nursing’s evolving role in patient safety
Maintaining well-being and resiliency
There has been no test of resilience as there is happening right now with the covid-19 pandemic, and it’s even more important that nurses prioritize their own well-being. Your experiences now will be transformative; look for ways to incorporate them to add to the meaning of your life and your work.
Giving meaning to resilience during Covid-19
Natl Academy of Medicine – Dealing with clinician burnout
AJN “Best of the Blog” re-examining resilience
Cultivating moral resilience
Practicing the ABCDEs of self-care in a pandemic
Preserving integrity and staying power as a nurse in a pandemic
Nursing and racism
As the largest group of health care professionals, nurses should rise above the societal affliction of racism and honor the profession by speaking out when someone is being hurt by discrimination of any kind.
Racial disparities in healthcare and beyond
AJN webinar series: Nursing’s role in addressing racism
Well-known nursing leader’s experience with racism
Nurses’ legal rights when there’s on-the-job discrimination from patients or employers
Six nurses who were leaders/activists in the movement
Minority representation in nursing
Racism and social justice
Ethics in nursing
As nurses, we can advocate for health equity and equality for our vulnerable patient populations. Below, we’ll explore the code of ethics, ethics committees, social justice, and establish that it can be used to guide nurse educators’ practice.
Towards a guiding framework for prison palliative care nursing ethics
Ethics committees
The business, ethics, and quality cases for consumer engagement in nursing
Ethics champion programs
Mock hospital ethics committee
A pragmatic approach to the application of the code of ethics in nursing education
Obesity, ethics, and healthcare
The promotion of social justice in healthcare
Artists around the world have been recognizing the work of nurses through murals, cartoons, chalk art, and even dry-erase markers. Thank you to these artists who have shared their talents, and thank you to all nurses. While science is used by many healthcare professions, it is the art of what we do as nurses that makes us unique.
We’re proud to celebrate the power of nurses for rising above challenges. Watch our newest video salute to those on the front line of care.
Frontline Nurses
Nursing isn’t a profession you fall into. It’s a profession that chooses you! Be proud of the work you do.
Students
Student are tomorrow’s nurses and your transition to real-world practice continues.
Faculty
Help prepare the next generation of nurses with evidence-based solutions to support your teaching.
Nurse Leaders
All nurses are called to be leaders. Now, more than ever, expertise and leadership matter. So do evidence-based resources that improve patient care.
Learn more about the state of the world’s nursing and state of the world’s midwifery reports today
Advanced Practice Nurses
As we increase in numbers, the impact on patient care and outcomes become evident in our own practices and all over the world.
Nursing Survey Series
Recent Wolters Kluwer reports explore the perspectives and priorities of nurses at different stages and phases of their careers.
"I am, of certain, convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel."
- Florence Nightingale
These words from Florence Nightingale are more relevant than ever. The courage, compassion, and determination demonstrated by you and your colleagues in this unprecedented time is appreciated by society beyond measure.
Discover more and share your nursing story
Voices in value-based care
Dr. Anne Dabrow Woods, Chief Nurse of Wolters Kluwer’s Health, Learning, Research and Practice, and Stuart Fisk, CRNP, Director, Center for Inclusion Health at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, discuss the importance of access to data on social determinants of health, management of complex patient populations, and challenges and solutions to improve outcomes for high-risk groups.
WHO: State of the World’s Nursing 2020
“One thing that has become inherently clear during the covid-19 pandemic is the value of nurses in health care. Our contributions as care providers, patient advocates, researchers, and educators have never been more important than they are right now. The WHO’s State of the World’s Nursing 2020 provides a framework to build our profession to be strong, adaptable and innovative to meet the changing health needs of people and optimize their health.”
– Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN
Chief Nurse; Health Learning, Research & Practice, Wolters Kluwer
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