Author: Liu
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What is a Nursing Concept Map? Examples & Templates
What is a Nursing Concept Map? A nursing concept map is a visual tool that helps nursing students strategize patient care on paper. This map allows students to organize and visualize patient care concepts in an easy-to-read diagram that highlights the relationships among various nursing concepts. Nursing concept maps are also a self-teaching strategy that…
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How to Use SBAR for Communication
There are many templates available to guide you through the use of SBAR, but committing the easy-to-remember organizational framework to memory will help you standardize its use for communicating about your patients. SBAR helps you prioritize and organize what is most critical about each individual patient’s situation, regardless of whether you are explaining it in…
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What Is SBAR Used For in Nursing?
SBAR can be used to communicate information between healthcare professionals, i.e., from nurse to physician or allied healthcare professional, as well as when relaying information to a patient or their caregivers. It is commonly used during shift change between nurses as well as when transferring a patient to other units. For example, a nurse will…
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Characteristics of the Nursing Process
The nursing process is also characterized by the following elements. 1. Dynamic and Cyclic The nursing process is an evolving process that continues throughout a patient’s admission or illness and ends when the problems identified by the nurse are no longer an issue. 2. Patient-Centered and Goal-Directed The entire nursing process is sensitive to and responsive to…
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What is the Nursing Process?
Understanding the nursing process is key to providing quality care to your patients. The nursing process is a cyclical process used to assess, diagnose, and care for patients as a nurse. It includes 5 progressive steps often referred to with the acronym: ADPIE Assessment Diagnosis Planning/outcomes Implementation Evaluation In this article, we’ll discuss each step…
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Veracity in Nursing Explained
When it comes to the nursing code of ethics (the Code), veracity is one of the seven ethical principles that serves as a foundation and basis for the Code, while linking all six of the other ethical principles together. Because nurses practice veracity, they’re often ranked as the number one most trusted professional, even above physicians and grade-school…
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History of the Nursing Code of Ethics and Veracity in Nursing
Although the need for a nursing code of ethics was recognized in the mid-1800s as modern nursing became more formalized, it took a backseat to more pressing issues for the newly created American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1896. The ANA’s first priorities were tackling issues such as nursing registration, accreditation of nursing schools, and the well-being of working nurses.…
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Why is Veracity in Nursing Important?
Veracity is absolutely essential to establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust between a nurse and patient. Patients are inherently vulnerable when seeking medical care. Likewise, nurses are privy to a significant amount of medical and personal information about patients as they complete admission documentation and assessments, access the patient’s medical record, and provide nursing…
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Everything Nurses Need to Know About the NCLEX Exam
If you want to become a registered nurse, you’re going to have to take (and pass) the NCLEX exam. Luckily for you, we’ve got everything you need to know about taking this next step. From what’s on the NCLEX, to how to pass it, to what to do if you do fail, nurse.org has your…
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How to Pass the NCLEX the First Time
: 11 Tips from Real Nurses You’ve studied hard in nursing school, and you know your stuff, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn some tips and tricks to help you pass the NCLEX on your first try. We’ve put together our top NCLEX study tips that real nurses shared with us. Popular NCLEX…