Hot Off the Press
- Should nurses support marijuana legalization?
- Looking ahead to 2014 and the need to prepare nurse educators
- There’s a different way to think about the phrase, “location, location, location“…
- VIDEO: What medical professionals need to do to help ease breastfeeding challenges
- VIDEO: the role complementary and alternative therapies play in nursing.
- What you need to know about recent changes in the grant writing process
- Narrative Gerontologists think deeply about what stories mean to better understand the experience of growing older
- Problems experiencing orgasm? Learn more in our latest entry of, “What Really Happens in Sex Therapy”
- Changing a behavior is not easy. Motivational interviewing can help
- Proud to announce our 14 wins in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards!
Noteworthy News
- At issue in 2 wrenching cases: What to do after the brain dies?
- Racial gap in breast cancer survival rates
- How the Affordable Care Act will change the lives of nurse practitioners
- Having a mentor can be a great help for students in nursing school!
- Nurse Elizabeth Kenny exemplified the best aspect of nurses: Caring
- New bill would give certified nurses the ability to diagnose & treat patients without physician supervision
- Bedroom-invading smartphones jumble body’s sleep rhythms
- Chiara de Blasio goes Public about depression, substance abuse
- Kira Peikoff, 28, had her DNA tested by three direct-to-consumer companies, and the results didn’t agree.
- UVA medical student diagnoses actor with life-threatening condition during practice exam
- When doctors ‘Google’ their patients
- The risks of being raised as a health-nut
- Gordon Gekko & Anton from ‘No Country For Old Men’ – the most accurate psychopaths in cinema
- How to spot a narcissist online
- Smoking now linked to more diseases than previously thought, including diabetes, TB, and liver cancer….
Food for Thought
- “We’d all be better off with our health records on Facebook” – what do you think? And a follow-up Q&A with one supporter of a Facebook-like space for our medical records.
- ‘Hey, girl’ – what do you think of these new Obamacare ads featuring everything from Ryan Gosling to keg stands?
- What is the difference between teaching a child right from wrong and abusing him or her in the classroom?
- How does a nurse move from working as an employee to becoming their own boss?
Inspiration
- “Breathe and believe… Find the proper support systems to help you navigate through your chronic sickness”
- Nurse saves pilot after he falls ill during flight
- “It’s not that you’re slow. It’s that you know so much” – a fresh look at the aging mind.