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An impossible task: summing up the value of a nurse

National Nurses Week, designated as May 6-12, was first celebrated in 1990. Since 1996, May 6 is known as National RN Recognition Day (American...
MedSurg Nursing, 05/01/09 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
A cancer pain primer

Opportunities exist for improving cancer pain management. Medical-surgical nurses must partner with patients and families to achieve optimal pain...
MedSurg Nursing, 12/01/08 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
Health literacy: the newest vital sign

A woman recently came into an urgent care clinic because the antibiotics did not seem to be helping her child's ear infection. After some...
MedSurg Nursing, 10/01/08 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
Using simulated education for real learning

Most of us have participated in simulation exercises throughout our nursing careers. DeYoung (2009) defines simulation as "controlled...
MedSurg Nursing, 08/01/08 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
The AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange: sharing and learning

One of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses' goals is to encourage and enable medical-surgical nurses to utilize evidence-based practices and...
MedSurg Nursing, 06/01/08 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
Decision-making models help define nursing practice

Technologies and clinical practices that were once reserved for intensive care units have been implemented in medical-surgical units for several...
MedSurg Nursing, 04/01/08 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication

'Doctor:' for physicians only?

A colleague of mine is a graduate nursing student, very excited about practicing as an advanced practice nurse in the near future. She told the...
MedSurg Nursing, 02/01/08 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
Improving the lives of older adults

Imagine an 87 year-old man, fondly referred to as "Abuelito," living independently at home despite having heart failure, arthritis, and slight...
MedSurg Nursing, 12/01/07 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
The fight to eradicate hunger and poverty

Global poverty and hunger are issues that affect all of us. Almost a billion people live on less than $1 a day and approximately half of the world...
MedSurg Nursing, 10/01/07 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication
Improving health care environmental practices

Environmental issues are continually in the news. Power plant and car emissions are known to cause air pollution. Knowing this, some of us try to...
MedSurg Nursing, 08/01/07 by Kathleen Reeves · More from publication