• Help with Care Plans and Nursing Diagnosis

    I was working on my own lens at Squidoo today and came across a site that I thought could be helpful to those of you just learning about, or struggling to master: Nursing Diagnosis, NANDA and Care Plans. You can also find more about the Nursing Process and other nursing theories at TheNursingSite.com. Hope you find this helpful.

  • Support the National Nurse Act of 2011

    Nearly 50% of adults (over 16) in the US are considered to be health care illiterate. That doesn’t simply mean they can’t read. In fact, many can read quite well. It means that they don’t understand enough about their own health status and about the health care systems to be able to even ask the right questions to find out the answers they need. The Costs of Health Care Illiteracy Handing Joe a pamphlet to read about his newly diagnosed type II diabetes won’t help him to understand what diabetes is (it’s not an allergy to table sugar?), how he needs to adjust his diet and exercise, nor how to…

  • The Five Biggest Myths About Online Nursing Degrees

    From UT Arlington College of Nursing: 1. Sitting in a classroom is the only way to really learn. The nurses participating in an RN to BSN program all have plenty of clinical experience and the program is designed specifically to teach critical thinking, leadership/management strategies, community health advocacy and research skills. These are all areas that have proven well-suited for the online context and the method has produced thousands of successful holistic health care providers. 2. My degree will say “Online Nursing Graduate.” A BSN from a State University’s online program is the equivalent of a campus BSN. And the degree will not indicate that the student has completed his…