We’re still unraveling the mysteries of COVID-19, but there’s no doubt about the impact of nurses in the global fight against the pandemic. Health care workers are on the front lines and nurses are the far-forward troops.
Although masked and, hopefully, covered in essential PPE, nurses are the human faces of health care for COVID-19 patients and their families. As premier patient educators, nurses also are helping to counter rampant misinformation about an unprecedented public health threat.
No one is better positioned to do this.
In my over 40 years of nursing education, this spring’s graduation and convocation are going to be, by far, the most unusual I’ve ever been a part of. When the semester started and we were all just coming back from the holidays, none of us could have imagined that in just a couple of months our world would be completely turned upside down.
Everywhere you look people are stepping up for their communities, coming together around a single mission, to get a hold of this pandemic.
At Edson College, our faculty, staff and students are lending their skills, time and health expertise to join this global effort.
Welcome to our guest blogger, Kathy Kenny, Edson College associate dean and clinical professor.
The international 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife is a rare opportunity for a sustained conversation about the invaluable role our professions play in health and health care. Let’s give them something to talk about.
Seriously, wherever we are in this world, nurses should take advantage of a moment when our profession will enjoy global priority status. Year of the Nurse is a rare platform for authentic, constructive discussions about who nurses are and what we do.
Policy is to government as nursing is to health care. Local government and nursing impact people at human levels; just imagine the impact if they linked arms for a greater good.
This month, which is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, I keep coming back to a phrase someone said to me long ago. Hospice nurses are love at work.
Dying can be long, bewildering, lonely, painful and frequently undignified. It is the case that the hospice nurses make all the difference:
Welcome to the Academic Nursing Leadership Conference! It is such a treat to be here with you all in Washington, D.C. during AACN's 50th anniversary.
I hope to touch base with many of you while we're here at the conference. If we've never met in person before please say hello as we move between sessions or celebrate during the AACN reception.
Sometimes I forget where I put my glasses (first guess, top of my head). Recuperating from a 30-mile bike ride takes me longer than it used to. And if I want to stand a chance of reading that PowerPoint presentation on the screen I have to move a lot closer. These are all a normal part of the aging process and we all, eventually, go through it.
There’s something satisfying about the start of a new semester. It’s a clean slate for returning students and a fresh start for first-year students. As a university, ASU pulls out all the stops to make the first few weeks on-campus as hospitable as possible for every Sun Devil, starting with ASU Welcome! The goal, of course, is to help set the stage for the support and opportunities available throughout their collegiate career.