Take Action to Prevent the Flu: Everything you need to know about the flu illness, including symptoms, treatment and prevention. (From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases [NCIRD]).

This quality improvement project set out to increase real-time collection and documentation of vital signs data by using interfaced mobile vital signs machines. Did it succeed?

The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) hosted a briefing on the opioid crisis that is taking a toll on the health, wellness, and lives of Americans and their families.

National Healthcareer Association - Since 1989, NHA has been partnering with allied health education programs, organizations and employers across the nation to award more than 500,000 allied health certifications.

Tips to Keep You Healthy: Coughs and sneezes spread diseases—especially when it comes to common colds and flu! But getting sick is not inevitable; here's how you can reduce your risk of getting sick this winter.

The Center for School, College, and Career Resources (CSCCR) has launched a new campaign on the importance of vaccinations in college. You received all your vaccines as a young child, so you’re set for life, right? No so. They say students in dorm-like conditions are particularly at risk of contracting meningitis, hepatitis B, and the flu.

Global physician ethics pledge gets biggest makeover in decades - Physician leaders have given the international modern-day Hippocratic Oath the most substantial update that it has seen in nearly 70 years...

(From AMA Wire) A recent article in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension provides a framework to optimize accurate blood-pressure readings and boost patient adherence to treatment. The article outlines the “measure accurately, act rapidly and partner with patients” (M.A.P.) approach to hypertension management.

On a typical day, the first thing I do is touch base with night-shift and day-shift nursing staff members to see whether they have any concerns or questions, especially any concerns about the patients.

In a recent opinion piece published in The Hill, AAACN member Rachel Start advocates that nurses are key to connecting the dots in health care and notes how important it is to engage and empower nurses in the community and ambulatory settings to meet patients where they are. She highlights AAACN's work...