Recognizing and responding to acute liver failure.

By quickly recognizing the signs and symptoms of acute liver failure, you can help your patient improve his odds of surviving this often-deadly condition.

Go to the head of the class: clinical educator role transition.

Facing that first day as an educator who is new to the role or new to the institution can be daunting. An organized orientation program can facilitate educators' assimilation into their role and provide assistance in understanding their duties and responsibilities. Orientation should be individualized according to the learning needs of the new educator and should provide information on hospital expectations, structure, and environment.

Walking on water and other lessons learned as a clinical educator.

The clinical educator role in acute and critical care is complex and challenging and in health care today it is often an essential role. This article focuses on lessons learned in implementing the role that may assist other nurses as they implement or develop the role.

Mentoring matters: creating, connecting, empowering.

In the current chaotic healthcare environment, growth and development of nursing staff is essential to maintain quality outcomes. The purpose of this article is to highlight the concept of mentoring, explain the benefits of mentoring in fostering the development of novice nurses, and present a primer for how advanced practice nurses could implement a mentoring relationship. A three-step mentoring process of reflecting, reframing, and resolving is described with examples of implementation of these steps.