A few months ago we presented our research at the National Association of Hispanic Nurses annual conference in Puerto Rico. We are happy to announce that our work was recently published in the International Journal of Emergency Nursing. "Readability and health literacy level of post-exposure prophylaxis patient education materials offered after sexual assault" This work really illustrates a genuine problem in a lot of patient education material which are often difficult to re

Presenting the work of the Boston Nursing Institute is involved in at the National Association of Hispanic Nurses

For the last 2.5 years, I have had the privilege of writing the 3rd edition of the FA Davis Advantage Maternal-Child Nursing Care textbook. This textbook really focused on updating content and presenting vital knowledge to today's nursing students Today's nursing students are often struggling with heavy school and outside work/life workloads. Much of these updates in the text use bulleted text, flow charts, graphs, and tables are used in a visually attractive design to make i

Last month was a difficult time to see what was happening in Afghanistan. What is so difficult is the road ahead that many women, children, and families will face under the new Taliban regimen. In many places, there are already atrocities that are occurring in parts of Afghanistan. Many women will be facing violence and prosecution for how they were living their lives these last 20 years, there will also be women who will speak out and stand up for their rights and they too w

Nurse burnout is described as a condition of mental, physical, and emotional fatigue induced by long work hours, the pressure of making immediate decisions, and the burden of caring for patients who may have negative outcomes. You can begin to feel disengaged and disconnected as a result of these compounding causes, which are the first symptoms of burnout. Factors that lead to burnout includes: job-related stress, heavy workload, interpersonal conflict in the work environment