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ASNA Position Statement: Full Practice Authority for APRNs
March 26, 2020 For many years, The Alabama State Nurses Association has advocated for the removal of barriers and restrictions placed on advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) in our state. The COVID-19 crisis has reinforced the previous arguments that APRNs …READ MORE
Miles Apart Yet Close to Heart: Long Distance Caregiving
by Dr.Terry Ann Sturm, DNP, GNP-C, CRNP & Dr. Joyce Varner, DNP, GNP-BC, AGPCNP-C, GCNS Key Words: Informal caregivers, long-distance caregivers, distance care giving, care giving costs, aging parents, frail older person, burden of care There are no conflicts of …READ MORE
Writing an Abstract for a Poster or Oral Presentation
One of the goals of The Alabama State Nurses Association (ASNA) is to encourage nurses to be leaders in nurse specialty/practice setting of their choice. ASNA believes that every nurse can be a leader. What better way to be a …READ MORE
Legal Corner: Changes and Responsibility in Nursing
by Jon D. Barganier, JD . Upon completion of law school and successful passage of the Alabama Bar Exam twenty-five years ago, I began taking legal work of a wide variety which I thought would allow me to undertake a …READ MORE
Patient Violence: It’s Not All in a Day’s Work (Strategies for reducing patient violence and creating a safe workplace)
By Lori Locke, MSN, RN, NE-BC; Gail Bromley, PhD, RN; Karen A. Federspiel, DNP, MS, RN-BC, GCNS-BC Reprinted from American Nurse Today, Volume 13, Number 5 Robert, a 78-year-old patient, requests help getting to the bathroom. When the nurse, Ellen, …READ MORE
