Life Changers
FEBRUARY 2012 • FEATURE Canadian nurses who volunteer for overseas missions can find themselves in extraordinary situations: some are sent into war zones or regions rocked by natural disasters, others...
View ArticleFocusing Your Care
MARCH 2012 • FEATURE Working with clients with vision loss Linda is a 52-year-old with diabetes who was recently admitted to hospital with acute cholecystitis. Linda has experienced a gradual decline...
View ArticleAdvocacy Inside the Maze
MARCH 2012 • FEATURE The conditions in which clients live their lives can go unknown by health-care professionals. But the influence of the social determinants of health cannot be overstated. Income,...
View ArticleHospital Noise
APRIL 2012 • FEATURE Increasingly, it hinders communication and puts patients at risk
View ArticleAdding Insult to Injury
APRIL 2012 • FEATURE Why can it be such a struggle to get workplace accommodation when you’ve been injured on the job?
View ArticleOn the Same Team? Nurse-Physician Communication
MAY 2012 • FEATURE Theresa Brown had been working as an oncology nurse in a busy Pittsburgh hospital for three years when a physician colleague approached her to say he had just finished reading her...
View ArticleUnauthorized Medication Collections on Inpatient Units
MAY 2012 • PEER-REVIEWED FEATURE By ROSALEEN McLARNEY, ERIN CASHIN, RICHARD CASHIN, CELINA COLEGRAVE and MABEL LUSCOMBE ABSTRACT Background: Unauthorized medication collections (UMCs) on inpatient (IP)...
View ArticleThe Constant Flame
MAY 2012 • FEATURE To mark National Nursing Week and International Nurses Day, we present, from the archives, three articles that explore the life and legend of Florence Nightingale.
View ArticleNursing in New Brunswick: On the Cusp of Change
JUNE 2012 • FEATURE As the government ponders primary health care reform, nurses advocate for improved patient access and a greater role in a province coping with an aging population and high rates of...
View ArticleWho Is the Clinical Nurse Specialist?
JUNE 2012 • FEATURE Valued for their knowledge, expertise and contributions to the team, clinical nurse specialists continue to struggle for role clarity
View ArticleEnergy at work
SEPTEMBER 2012 • FEATURE Some nurses believe that using therapeutic touch and other energy-based modalities can improve patients’ health by balancing their energy fields
View ArticlePrescribing in Alberta’s Influenza Assessment Centres
SEPTEMBER 2012 • FEATURE Expanding the role of RNs to allow them to prescribe specific antiviral medications in a protocol format may be a useful adjunct in planning for pandemic emergencies
View ArticleGet on Board with the Research Ethics Review Process
OCTOBER 2012 • FEATURE An insider explains the responsibilities of researchers and reviewers in getting it right
View ArticleMore time for care
OCTOBER 2012 • FEATURE An innovative program transforms wards by reducing clutter and cutting time-wasting activities for nurses
View ArticleCanadian Nurses Foundation: Fabulous at 50
NOVEMBER 2012 • FEATURE Marking a milestone in support for nursing education and research
View ArticleImproving Oral Care Practice in Long-Term Care
NOVEMBER 2012 • PEER-REVIEWED FEATURE ABSTRACT At Deer Lodge Centre, oral care practice for adult dependent patients often included the use of sponge swabs and liquid mouth rinse, but the facility had...
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