Insights
What’s Something You’re Grateful For That Only A Nurse Could Understand?
Practicing gratitude can be a game-changer: it has far reaching effects, from improving our mental health to boosting our relationships with others.
When you start to notice and identify the...
Best Practices
What Are Your Top Nurse Tips For NOT Getting Sick?
We get it -nurses are always in the “sick” season. But with Covid-19 and the cold and flu...
Education
LPN vs. RN- What’s The Difference?
As the demands in healthcare rise, the need for nurses increases as well. Both licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered...
Career
Top Unconventional Nurse Job: Medical Ear Piercing!
Did you know there is such a thing as a NASCAR Nurse? How about a Trauma Flight Nurse?...
Career
3 Signs You’re Ready to Pursue Your Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Are you a nurse who's ready to take your career and education to the next level? Have you...
Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What’s In a Name?
We’ve all seen the words “complementary,” “alternative,” and “integrative,” but what do they really mean?
Complementary Versus Alternative
Many Americans—more than 30 percent of adults and about 12...
Do Animal-Assisted Therapies Work?
Several research teams are examining the potential benefits of bringing specially trained animals into clinical settings. These animal-assisted therapies are increasingly offered in hospitals...
New Pediatric Quality Survey Captures Inpatient Care Experience
Surveying hospital inpatients and their families about their hospital experience is an increasingly important measure of care quality. However, researchers have lacked a standardized...
Project A.L.S. Spends 100% Of Donations From 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge On Promising Research
On the one-year anniversary of The Ice Bucket Challenge--an unexpected social media sensation that raised unprecedented awareness for ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease--Project A.L.S....
What Most Chronic Pain Patients Don’t Tell You
More than half of chronic pain patients in a managed care setting reported using chiropractic care or acupuncture or both, but many of these...
Personalized Medicine: Pharmacogenomics 101
Pharmacogenomics, the study of how genes affect the way medicines work in your body, is helping advance personalized medicine and allowing healthcare providers nationwide...