It’s OK for nurses to be skeptical of social media, says the author, but it’s not OK to refuse to engage with new technology.

Simulation prepares nursing students for a world where they can’t reinitiate the patient.

The economic crisis provides stimulus for health care organizations to take definitive action on evidence-informed practice.

Educators must act now to prepare students for technology-transformed health care.

Have a mean co-worker? Insights from neuroscience may help you cope.

The best way to make use of this gift is to be grounded in the fundamentals, such as scope of practice.

Technology holds promise for dramatically improving global health.

The lessons she learned as an instructor were very different from those learned by the students.

Creative application of technology improves access to health care and empowers clinicians and patients alike.

In the ongoing battle to improve health care, it’s nurses, contends Kenneth W. Dion, RN, MSN, MBA, who are on the front lines. From their unique bedside vantage point, where they deliver the lion’s share of patient interventions, nurses can also recognize needs that may be opportunities for innovative products that improve patient care. Learn more about this successful nurse entrepreneur.

Most nurses became nurses so they could care for patients, but studies show they spend less than half of their work time delivering direct patient care. Transforming Care at the Bedside, a collaborative effort by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and 13 hospitals across the United States, is out to change that, and is enlisting nurses to help make its case.

Imagine a hospital where a personal phone replaces a nurse’s feet as his or her most important communication device. That’s just one idea the author shares for fixing nursing.