COVID-19-related anxieties: Impact on duty to care among nurses.

Background: Duty to care is integral to nursing practice. Personal obligations that normally conflict with professional obligations are likely amplified during a public health emergency such as COVID-19. Organizations can facilitate a nurse's ability to fulfill the duty to care without compromising on personal obligations.

Cultivating a Culture:: Implementing Methods to Embrace Diversity and Inclusion.

Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, Maryland, was the recipient of this year's American Organization for Nursing Leadership's Prism Award, which recognizes an organization with advanced diversity efforts. The medical center, part of Luminis Health, added diversity as a core organizational value in 2009, making efforts to provide care to diverse populations and support an inclusive work environment for staff. Through strategic initiatives and community partnerships that target recruiting efforts, the organization has created a culture in which difficult conversations about differences are supported and encouraged.

Characterising emergency department high-frequency users in a rural hospital.

Objective: Patients who are frequent users (≥4 visits/year) comprise ∼10% of patients, but account for ∼34% of total yearly emergency department (ED) visits. Non-emergent care provided to frequent ED users affects operating costs and usage. The majority of reports characterising frequent ED use are from urban teaching centres.

Humanistic nursing, interpersonal relations theory, and the empathy-altruism hypothesis.

The purpose of this paper is to illuminate the relevance and applicability of theory for nursing research and practice. Following a brief explanation of the four levels of theoretical abstraction recognized by nursing, Paterson and Zderad's humanistic nursing theory and Peplau's theory of interpersonal relations are described. In addition, one social psychology theory, the empathy-altruism hypothesis, is also explained.

Peripheral nerve blocks: understanding the nurse's role.

This article describes the nursing care and management of patients during and after administration of peripheral nerve blocks. We review recommendations for patient monitoring, as well as the risks and complications associated with anesthetic agents. Several upper and lower extremity blocks, including the Bier block, are described.