The Nursing Station

The Nursing Station – Podcast Edition #2

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Date: Friday, May 27, 2005

Description: The second edition of the net's first nursing podcast. News, research, commentary, and an interview with a true blue working nurse and her challenges juggling the demands of the floor and grad school.

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Contents:

Current nursing and health care news:
Happrtise

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

Research Round-up:
Call for presentations .

Research focus:
atios.

Interview:
This week, I talk with Heather Horgan, RN, a charge nurse and doctoral student about the challenges of juggling job, home life and grad school.

Commentary:
Queer teens and nursing ethics – a response to a letter in AJN.

Shift Change:
If you were the manager of your unit, what would you do differently?

Next edition: An interview with Mary Ann Haueser, director of the undergraduate program at the Dominican University of California, more news and current research, and another commentary.

Links:

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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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Shift Change: Nursing ethics and queer teens (American and Canadian codes of ethics for nurses).

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]