by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Mar 11, 2017 | Cultural Competence, NCLEX-RN, New Graduate Nurses, Nurses Matter, Nursing Leadership, Nursing School, Patient Advocacy, Patient Safety, Patient Satisfaction, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
In today’s global healthcare system, nurses provide care for people from all different backgrounds and cultures. It is very important that nurses take the time to get to know their patients’ cultural and religious considerations so that they may quickly build a strong...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Mar 2, 2017 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Critical Thinking, Nurses Matter, Nursing Leadership, Personal Experience
Along with the many challenges RNs face, come immeasurably more benefits. In our attempt to celebrate and highlight what drives a registered nurse to compassionately care for their clients—we share monthly inspirational quotes from RNs with our colleagues, and with...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Feb 3, 2017 | Nurses Matter, Nursing Inspiration, Nursing Leadership, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
This this January edition, we asked three nurses to provide words of wisdom for new graduate RNs. Here are their words of inspiration: “Your first year of nursing will prove to be challenging. At times, you may experience mixed emotions and will be conflicted between...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jan 25, 2017 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Nurses Matter, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Leadership, Patient Satisfaction, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
One of the greatest challenges we face in healthcare today is the ability to balance healthcare quality with low costs. With current changes in healthcare reimbursement, there is a focused effort on moving to value-based purchasing, also known as pay for performance....
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jan 13, 2017 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Nurses Matter, Nursing Ethics, Patient Advocacy, Patient Safety, Patient Satisfaction, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
One of the greatest challenges we face in healthcare today is the ability to balance healthcare quality with low costs. With current changes in healthcare reimbursement, there is a focused effort on moving to value based purchasing, also known as pay for performance....
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jan 11, 2017 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Continuing Education, Critical Thinking, Inspirational, New Graduate Nurses, Nurses Matter, Nursing Chain of Command, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Leadership, Patient Advocacy, Patient Safety, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
In our ever-changing health care system, nurses are consistently challenged to maintain strong ethics in nursing in the face of a fast-paced work environment. In this series so far, we defined the nine Provisions of Nursing Ethics, and we highlighted three of the most...