Nursing

Responding to RN's June 2009 cover story, RNs offer opinions on how hospitals should assist, or employ in different capacities, nurses who become injured or disabled on the job.

Responding to the May 2009 cover story, RNs comment on whether they would choose to float among nursing assignments if they could control their shift timing and locations.

Nurses sound off on the March 2009 RN article on holistic and complementary nursing care.

Nurses' opinions on how their facilities treat present-on-admission procedures for their patients and doctors.

Expert nurse witness debates charting points with author of February 2009 documentation feature; praise for March 2009 elder-exploitation and holistic-therapy articles; author of January 2009 Lyme disease article regrets that correction did not clarify that journal staff selected the incorrect art; reader calls for ethnic diversity among RN editorial board; reader disputes medical benefits of circumcision (February 2009); reader proposed possible creative staffing alternatives that would permit older nurses to keep contributing.

Nurses react to February 2009 article on circumcision care; nurse who also had a mother whose health and cognition declined in nursing-home care shares her experience in reply to February 2009 Reflections on Caring anecdote; nurse and parent thanks January 2009 Reflections author for publicizing Parent Heart Watch and long QT syndrome; support for RN's digital edition and criticism of print-magazine redesign; older nurse encounters difficulty resuming employment.

Carbon monoxide poisoning can be mistaken for the very similar symptoms of influenza. Article lists danger signs of CO poisoning, differentiates those unique to flu, and provides response plan to suspected CO contamination.

Nurses' opinions on the effects the Obama administration's healthcare plans will have on American nurses.

Oral hygiene measures—brushing with fluoride toothpaste, rinsing, and prophylaxis with chlorhexidine—in ventilated ICU patients reduced pneumonia infections by 46%.