HEALTH BYTES: Introducing ANA's #FitNurse5K
In 2017, ANA's yearly theme will be devoted to improving the health of nurses and we will be launching the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ Grand Challenge.
HEALTH BYTES: Care Transitions at the End of Life
Providing the best possible quality of life for dying patients certainly isn't isolated to any one area of nursing. From Wolters Kluwer's Nursing Management, is a review how nurses and nurse leaders in multiple settings can influence patients' and their families' end-of-life care transitions.
HEALTH BYTES: The CDC Reports Too Many Health Care Workers Not Getting Flu Vaccine
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends annual influenza vaccination for all health care personnel to reduce influenza-related morbidity and mortality in health care settings.
HEALTH BYTES: Telehealth Nursing Practice
AAACN member and past president Traci Haynes, MSN, RN, BA, CEN, wrote the feature article "Telehealth Nursing Practice" in the October issue of AnswerStat. Health advice has been telephonically dispensed since the advent of the telephone...
How to Deal With a Traumatic Experience As a Nurse
(From the AAACN Career Center): How do we show up at work day after day when we know the next patient we see could be to be worse off than the one before?
HEALTH BYTES: AAACN Selects Representative for Champion Nursing Council
Stephanie Witwer, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, has been selected to serve as the AAACN representative on the Center to Champion Nursing in America Champion Nursing Council, an advisory group for the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action.
HEALTH BYTES: Nurses and the Migration to Electronic Health Records
Are you still charting on paper? If so, those days are drawing to a close. In many settings, the clock has been ticking for providers to switch to electronic health records (EHRs).
HEALTH BYTES: September is Sepsis Awareness Month
Join ANA and CDC in the webinar: Empowering Nurses for Early Sepsis Recognition, on Thursday, September 22, at 2 PM EDT. Sepsis can happen to anyone and is difficult to predict, diagnose, and treat.
HEALTH BYTES: Complementary Health Approaches
A NIH review finds non-drug approaches effective for treatment of common pain conditions. Data from a review of U.S.-based clinical trials published today in Mayo Clinic Proceedings suggest that some of the most popular complementary health approaches...
HEALTH BYTES: Breast Cancer Fact Sheet
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women, after skin cancer. Know the facts about your personal risk for developing breast cancer.