by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Oct 30, 2015 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Continuing Education, Graduate Studies, New Graduate Nurses, Nursing Leadership, Nursing School, Personal Experience, Student Nurse, Uncategorized
This Blog Was Originally Published on Calling All Nurses – Pursuing an MSN is extremely rewarding and can open many career pathways within nursing. With an MSN, you can specialize in Education, Informatics, Leadership, or become a Nurse Practitioner. Many MSN...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jul 15, 2015 | Advanced Nursing Practice, Critical Thinking, Nurses Matter, Nursing Leadership, Nursing School, Patient Advocacy, Personal Experience, Student Nurse, Travel Nursing, Travel RN, Uncategorized
“…and you had to attend college to learn how to measure someone’s urine?” – A classic example of a response that I often receive from people who have no clue as to what my roles, responsibilities, or knowledge base consists of as a...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jul 8, 2015 | Critical Thinking, Nurses Matter, Nursing Leadership, Patient Advocacy, Personal Experience, Uncategorized
Interdisciplinary Rounds is a patient care improvement strategy that brings members of the care coordination team (case management and social work), members of the medical team (physicians and consultants), members of the therapy team (physical therapists and...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jun 10, 2015 | Nurses Matter, Nursing Leadership, Patient Advocacy, Personal Experience, Travel Nursing, Travel RN, Uncategorized, Unsafe Staffing Ratios
Most of us will agree that nursing greatly impacts overall patient satisfaction, and even more so, patient health outcomes. On the other hand, few of us have the understanding that the delivery of nursing practice is heavily scrutinized when these satisfaction scores...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jun 5, 2015 | Bullying, Nurses Matter, Nursing Chain of Command, Nursing Leadership, Patient Advocacy, Personal Experience, Travel Nursing, Travel RN, Uncategorized
This article has been featured on Calling All Nurses, a Kaplan Test Prep blog for nursing students. Workplace bullying is often described as aggressive behaviors that may include: alienating, intimating, public humiliation or sabotaging, and are usually perpetrated by...
by Damion Jenkins, RN, MSN, CEO | Jun 3, 2015 | New York City Hospitals, Nurses Matter, Nursing Leadership, Nursing Scheduling, NYC Nursing, NYSNA, Patient Advocacy, Personal Experience, Travel Nursing, Travel RN, Uncategorized, Unsafe Staffing Ratios
New York City – The Concrete Jungle where dreams are made of – unless you happen to be a NYC nurse, or even worse, a NYC patient. Lets start by providing a little background story: I have been working with a large travel nursing agency for approximately 2...