Mindfulness to promote nurses' well-being.

Find out how one hospital introduced a mindfulness-based stress reduction program to increase work satisfaction and decrease burnout.

Ethics of everyday decision making.

Evidence suggests that checklists can prevent episodes of patient harm and they are increasingly being used in patient care to ensure that procedures are being carried out. However, checklists cannot do so alone and in some situations the checklist might indicate that an intervention has been undertaken when it has not. Healthcare providers, particularly nurses, must consider not only the increase in the use of checklists, but also the way in which they present a context for ethical decision making.

APN spells success for a heart failure program.

Review the relationship between advanced practice nurse-directed heart failure programs and patient length of stay, mortality, re-admission rate, and adherence to recommended clinical regimens.