The Nursing Station

The Nursing Station – Podcast Edition #1

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Date: Friday, May 6, 2005

Description: The inaugural edition of the first nursing podcast on the net. News, research, commentary, and an interview with the creator of The Nursing Station.

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Contents:

Introduction to the podcast, including its purpose and intended audience.

Current nursing and health care news:
Happy Nurses’ Week, “alcopops”, political news, Cherry Ames, a nurse’s thoughts on Nightingale and the Iraq war, Canadian staffing issues, IV and BP Luer Lock alert, ENA forms the Academy of Emergency Nursing, retention vs. recruitment, AACN applauds AONE support for BSN, get on a reality show to provide nursing expertise

Arnie Watch:
Next rallies, where the staffing issues sits now, and some websites.

Research Round-up:
Call for presentations by ASPMN, Evidence Based Nursing conference, AACN practice alerts, evaluating EBN as opposed to EB Medicine, benefits of drinking questioned, Vit D and cancer, e-mail rots the mind, prostate cancer treatment, episiotomies add risk.

Research focus:
Lang et al’s systematic review of nurse-patient ratios.

Interview:
This week (due in part to when I could schedule people to interview) I will be interviewing myself – the developer of The Nursing Station.

Commentary:
The power of impressions and the power of words.

Shift Change:
My two most hated questions about being a nurse.

Next edition: An interview with Heather Horgan about juggling job and grad school, more news and current research, and a commentary in response to a letter to AJN about nurses role in supporting queer teens.

Links:

I love this quote:

“The nursing station is often the hub of activity in a hospital ward. It's like Mission Control: it's where patient information is kept, where monitoring devices are located, and where doctors and visitors can make inquiries about what is happening on the ward.”

The implication, of course, is that it’s the nurses who know what is going on.

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National Nurses Week 2005, May 6-12, with the theme Nurses: Many Roles, One Profession.

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Get on TV (plus the Advocacy Center is a great site)

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Arnie watch, including the rather lame editorial supporting the gov entitled “Nurse Ratchet” (how charming) from the Orange County Register.

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Call for presentations for next year’s ASPMN conference.

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AACN Practice Alerts (requires membership to access).

Citations:

Lang TA, Hodge M, Olson V, Romano PS, Kravitz RL. Nurse-patient ratios: a systematic review on the effects of nurse staffing on patient, nurse employee, and hospital outcomes. J Nurs Adm. 2004 Jul-Aug;34(7-8):326-37. Review.
PMID: 15303051 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Lavin MA, Meyer G, Krieger M, McNary P, Carlson J, Perry A, James D, Civitan T. Essential differences between evidence-based nursing and evidence-based medicine. Int J Nurs Terminol Classif. 2002 Jul-Sep;13(3):101-6.
PMID: 12599512 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]