Nursing resilience: a nursing opportunity.

Resilience is a concept that has been explored in many other professions and cultures. Nurses experience many difficult and unanticipated adverse situations that can negatively impact them. Resilience can be cultivated to aid individual nurses and nursing work groups to bounce back from these situations and integrate them into context of their practice.

Aging patients: nursing implications for direct care nurses.

Experience with my mother over the past 3 years led me reflect on how we care for older adults. For those who do not have a nurse in the family to provide care coordination and oversight, how are the gaps in continuity of care and transitions in care addressed? Many specialized positions are emerging for nurses in care coordination. These positions tend to focus on the most complex patients and on selected transitions in care.