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1998

Resources

Documents

• TAN Issue: September/October 1998: Features: Holistic Nursing: The Goal is the Whole Person
  It probably has happened to anyone who's ever worked as a staff nurse. You're changing the dressing on one patient, but you're also thinking about another patient's IV anti-biotic that is due to run out any minute and a blood glucose that has to be rechecked in 15.
• TAN Issue: September/October 1998: News: Workplace Violence Affects One-Third of Nurses
  More than 30 percent of nurses recently surveyed in seven states reported having been the victims of workplace violence in the previous year. Most had been assaulted by patients. Initiated by the CNA Task Force on Workplace Violence, the survey was returned by 586 nurses ...
• TAN Issue: May/June 1998: Features: Workplace Violence: Getting Hospitals focused on prevention
  Once primarily limited to street crime, violence now pervades all areas of American life, from the school ground to the workplace. News reports, TV docudramas and Hollywood movies highlight the most sensational of violent acts: children gunning down children; ...
• TAN Issues: May/June 1998: News: The National Sample Survey of RNs
  The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, conducted in 1996 and released last year, contains a wealth of valuable information about the RN population in the U.S. and offers the opportunity to take a look at where the profession is going.
• TAN Issue: March/April 1998: News: New Nursing Shortage Hits; Causes Complex
  The last nursing shortage occurred between 1985 and mid-1991. Suddenly, there's talk of another one. But the differences between the health care delivery system of the mid-1980s and that of the late 1990s are staggering. This nursing shortage will not be simply a replay of the last one.
• TAN Issue: March/April 1998: News: Noted Economist Predicts Nurses will be in Demand
  The uninsured, managed care and the nursing workforce as a commodity were among the national health care issues explored at ANA's Workplace Advocacy and Economic Leadership Development Conference...
• TAN Issue: January/February 1998: Features: Diversity: A Continuing Challenge
  The face of the nation's workforce continues to evolve into one of increasing diversity. Projections show white men comprising only 45 percent of the workforce by the year 2000, while women, people of color and immigrants will account for...
• TAN Issue: January/February 1998: Features: Working with the Aging Patient
  As nurses, we can make a lot of incorrect assumptions about aging patients. We need to be open and flexible in our approach to them and not rely on preconceived notions about their level of activity or health awareness
• TAN Issue: January/February 1998: Features: Distribution by Racial/Ethnic Group, March 1996
  The American Nurses Association has identified cultural diversity as a high priority in 1998. The association currently is putting together a national advisory council on cultural diversity to help increase minority
• TAN Issue: January/February 1998: News: Survey of RNs shows strong opportunities in nursing
  The Division of Nursing, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has just released data that show that nursing remains a desirable, life-long career opportunity.
• TAN Issue: January/February 1998: Features: Mental disorders and culture-bound syndromes
  On a patient's first presentation in a health care facility, it can be difficult for even a skilled clinician to determine the nature of a patient's signs and symptoms when a mental disorder might be involved. Signs and symptoms may be the result of a...
• TAN Issue: January/February 1998: Features: Nurses need to strengthen cultural competence for next century to ensure quality patient care
  The number of people in cultural, ethnic and racial groups that have traditionally been labeled "minorities" in this country is growing at a rapid pace. As frontline providers of health care, nurses are the first and...