Nurses - The closest thing to a silver bullet in boosting hand hygiene compliance! If there is one group of clinicians that is particularly pivotal to the success of any quality improvement initiatives - including though regarding hand hygiene compliance...

Use social media, conferences and daily workplace interactions to connect and enrich your career. When you’re in need of advice, support or a recommendation, knowing someone who can help is essential.

Check out this list of Nursing Tips - Better Resources for Better Care, from the clinical team at Lippincott NursingCenter.com to help make your days run a little smoother, improve your practice, and optimize patient care.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a detailed account of the agency’s work on the largest, longest outbreak response in the agency’s history: the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016.

Advocating healthy eating is very important to your patients. Whole grains are especially important in our diet. From the USDA Center for Nutrition is a list of how to make half of the grains you eat whole...

97 percent of nurses say it boosts confidence! You know you’re good at what you do, so why invest the time, angst and money involved in pursuing specialty certification?

Access the FREE archived NSI Webinar: Ambulatory Care Nurse-Sensitive Indicators: State of the Industry, (held on June 20th) in the AAACN Online Library. Highlights: How do you quantify ambulatory care nurse value with metrics? What Nurse-Sensitive Indicators (NSIs) are you using in ambulatory care? Credit: 1.0 contact hour.

One of the greatest challenges of working 12-hour nursing shifts is maintaining your motivation throughout the day (or night).

Beth Ann Swan, AAACN Past-President and co-editor of the Care Coordination and Transition Management (CCTM) Core Curriculum, wrote an article published May 27 for the 'Nurse Appreciation' campaign published by MediaPlanet and distributed nationwide in USA Today.

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