Navigating Healthier Lives: Wellness for Nurses
In a recent survey of primary care physicians, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discovered that overweight and obese physicians were less likely to discuss diet and exercise with their overweight patients. A majority of the “normal weight” physicians surveyed had more confidence in their ability to provide wellness advice to their patients. Do nurses model this behavior too?
For most patients, nurses are often the first people that they encounter in the health system. A healthier nurse may mean a healthier patient.
Please join us for an inspiring webinar especially for nurses on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 1:00 PM (eastern) that will help you integrate healthy habits into your home and professional life. Our program will focus on techniques to improve healthy eating and increase physical activity in order to reduce and prevent obesity. Our presenter, Holly Carpenter, BSN, RN, Senior Staff Specialist for the American Nurses Association’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, will outline several successful wellness programs, and discuss how nurses may incorporate wellness strategies into their busy lives.
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Navigating Diversity in Nursing Practice
Sorry you missed this informative webinar! This program may be obtained through our continuing education modules.
What is diversity and how do we handle it? From race and ethnicity to obesity and mental disorders, patients present themselves with a wide range of characteristics. As nurses, we must be aware of these diversities and reflect competency in these cultural differences, but do we?
The American Nurses Association has created a comprehensive, internet-accessible resource bank of materials related to cultural competency and diversity awareness in nursing practice in the United States. As part of this Diversity Awareness Project, ANA, with support from Pfizer, surveyed student nurses on their perceptions of diversity as a component of their academic training and the role it plays in their future in professional nursing.
Be among the first to learn what’s inside the ANA Diversity Awareness Project and the results of two national surveys of nurses! Our expert speaker, Jacqueline Mosley, MPH, MSN, ACNP-BC, RN, has led the American Nurses Association project on diversity awareness and will provide significant insight on how to navigate this important nursing practice issue.
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Navigating Diversity in Nursing Practice provides 1.0 CNE contact hours.
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Test Your Diversity IQ
Three Tips to Encourage Diversity Awareness
By Popular Demand: Nursing Guidelines for Using Social Media
A few months ago, hundreds of nurses from across the U.S. participated in our wildly popular webinar on social media. The program explored issues surrounding the use of social media in healthcare settings, digital ethics and patient confidentiality. Now, the American Nurses Association has produced the seminal ANA’s Principles for Social Networking for the Nurse to provide real-world guidance to registered nurses in using social networking media in a manner that protects patients’ privacy and confidentiality and maintains the standards of professional nursing practice.
Please join us for our next, essential webinar as this new practical guidance is shared. Emphasis will be on how to make the most of the benefits of social networking and how to avoid the risks. Our expert speakers, Jennifer Mensik, PhD, MBA, RN, ANA Board Director-at-Large, and Administrator of Nursing and Patient Care Services at St. Luke’s Boise and Meridian Medical Centers in Idaho, and Nancy Spector, PhD, RN, Director of Regulatory Innovations at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, will discuss critical information about social networking that every nurse should know. The webinar will present real-life scenarios that will help nurses consider how to manage social media responsibly.
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Fact Sheet: Navigating the World of Social Media
Tip Card: 6 Tips for Nurses Using Social Media
Poster: 6 Tips for Nurses Using Social Media
ANA’s Principles for Social Networking and the Nurse – ANA login required
By Popular Demand: Nursing Guidelines for Using Social Media provides 1.0 CNE contact hours.
Navigating the Work Environment: Embracing Zero Tolerance for Bullying
Sorry you missed this live discussion webinar! This popular webinar is now available through our continuing education modules.
“Sticks and stones might break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” This nursery rhyme couldn’t be further from the truth. Repeated exposure to negative, disruptive behavior can have a significant impact on you, your colleagues and your patients.
What leads to such behavior in the health care environment? When does bad behavior cross the line into bullying or other types of violence? What can nurses do so that their health care organizations respond effectively and decisively to these threats?
Internationally recognized for her work on horizontal violence, Joy Longo, PhD, RNC-NIC will present Navigating the Work Environment: Embracing Zero Tolerance for Bullying for the nursing community. Dr. Longo has conducted extensive research on the phenomenon of disruptive behaviors in nursing and has published on the topic in several nursing journals. An Assistant Professor at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, Dr. Longo has over two decades of experience working in a neonatal intensive care unit setting as a staff nurse and assistant nurse manager.
Join us for an incisive conversation that will help us all better understand, address and prevent bullying, lateral and horizontal violence in the healthcare environment. After the presentation, there will be time to share your thoughts and questions.
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Navigating the Work Environment: Embracing Zero Tolerance for Bullying provides 1.0 CNE contact hours
Navigating Social Media: What Nurses Need to Know
Sorry you missed this exciting, informative webinar! This popular webinar may be obtained through our continuing education modules.
Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media, we’re networking more than ever. Our easy access to experts and information can be a professional boon, but when does connecting cross the line? Should you “friend” a patient? Does sharing patient stories online violate confidentiality even if you change names? Is it OK to Twitter at work? These are just some of the questions that nursing and other professions are wrestling with. Join us for a stimulating discussion of digital ethics. No one has all the answers, but we promise to get you thinking. After the presentation, there will be time to share your thoughts and questions.
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Navigating Social Media: What Nurses Need to Know provides 1.0 CNE contact hours
