Compassion Fatigue
Environmental Health
Evidence Based Practice
Horizontal Violence
Informatics
Quality Improvement
Media portrayal and image
Nursing shortage
nurse Competence
Staffing Ratios
Telehealth
Unlicensed assistive Personal

Compassion Fatigue
CompassionFatigue.org - website

Environmental Health
Environmental Health Curriculum for Undergraduate Nursing Education - includes modules and power point presentations
Nurse’s Role as an Environmental Activist - .pdf winning essay
Home Environmental Health and Safety Assessment Tool - .pdf
Health Care Without Harm - Nurses welcome kit
The Environmental Impact of Medication - "think before you flush" nursing slide presentation, large file .pdf
The Luminary Project: Nurses Lighting the Way to Environmental Health -
SMARxT Disposal - Web site about safe med disposal

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence Based Practice Tutorial - from Penn State
Evidence Based Practice Tutorial - from U. of MN
Evidence Based Practice Journal - Home page
Evidence-based Practice - US Dept. of Health and Human Services program home page.
Achieving Evidence-Based Nursing Practice in Ambulatory Care -
Evidence based nursing practice (EBP) -

Horizontal Violence
Addressing Nurse-to-Nurse Bullying to Promote Nurse Retention -

Informatics and Language
Nursing Language -
Standardized Nursing Language - Use of standardized nursing language will make nursing visible

Quality Improvement
Health Care Quality Improvement: A Nursing Perspective (pgs. 29-48) - Book Chapter .pdf
Healthcare Improvement Skills Center - Modules/tutorials, requires free sign-up
The Role of Nurses in Hospital Quality Improvement -

Media portrayal and Image
Does popular TV influence the public's Image of Nursing? -
What do nurses really do? - May require free login
Center for Nursing Advocacy - web site

Nursing shortage
Nursing Shortage Resource - Links from the AACN
Top Priority: Nursing Shortage (Pt 1) - ABC News video 6:30 min.
Top Priority: Nursing Shortage (Pt 2) - ABC News video 6:52 min.
Troops to Nurse Teachers Act of 2008 - press release
Shortage of nurses putting patients at risk -
Enrollment Growth Slows. . . - AACN press release -

nurse Competence
Essential Nursing Competencies and Curricula Guidelines for Genetics and Genomics - .gov, .pdf

Staffing Ratios
Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care -
Shortage of nurses putting patients at risk -
MNA TV Commercial for safe staffing - :30 video
Research Showing Impact of RN Staffing on Patient Outcomes - MNA list of article links
Key Findings from Research Studies - from ANA

Telehealth
Healthcare Anywhere: The Pledge of Telehealth - may require free login
Telehealth call center - Introduction
Distance Nursing - overview
Hanging Up on the Myths of Telehealth Nursing -
Window of Opportunity for Home Care Nurses: Telehealth Technologies -

Unlicensed assistive Personal
Joint Health Professional Statement on Task Shifting -