Through my training and personal pursuit of knowledge, I learned a lot about how to live healthy. But like many Americans, I struggled with translating that knowledge into practice. At only 30 years old, I weighed more than 200 pounds and had developed mild sleep apnea. I finally acknowledged to myself that my life was never going to slow down and I couldn’t afford to put off addressing my health. When I made this decision, I met my...  Read More »

“Dear Deanna: My Nurse Manager is so unapproachable that she scares me. We never know what she is thinking or if she even likes the nurses that work our unit. What can we do?” Being a Nurse Manager is not the easiest position in our profession. You must first remember that your Nurse Manager is trying to make two groups of individuals happy. First there is the staff that she manages and then there are the administrators to which...  Read More »

When looking to develop a critical-thinking process in a facility, it’s best to start with the basics. “Critical thinking has been around for a couple of decades, but applying it in healthcare is something we’ve been looking at pretty closely for the last 10 years,” says Carole R. Eldridge, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, dean at St. John’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar,...  Read More »