Discharge planning for the patient with chronic pancreatitis.

For patients with chronic pancreatitis, there are many ramifications of failing to plan for the patient's discharge appropriately. The chronicity of the disease often makes discharge planning more complex. In addition, patient needs may include complicated home regimens, psychosocial interventions, or both.

Considering a career change to a nursing faculty position? Key interview questions to ask and why.

Nursing is a practice profession that transitions some bedside clinicians to another career, such as a nursing faculty member in a university nursing program. Given the current faculty shortage, many clinicians may be considering this kind of transition. The nurse considering such a career change can benefit from learning about the job expectations of academe and being prepared to ask questions in the initial interview that may impact future satisfaction and retention.

Mindful meditation: healing burnout in critical care nursing.

The nursing profession is experiencing a crisis in both manpower and the ability to fend off the deleterious effects of burnout. Nursing professionals face extraordinary stress in our present medical environment, and studies have frequently found moderate-to-high levels of burnout among nurses. Nurses experience burnout for a variety of reasons, some inherent to the profession and others related to our 21st-century values that have necessitated multiple breadwinners within the household.

Sense of belonging and new graduate job satisfaction.

This study investigated the relationship between sense of belonging and job satisfaction in the new graduate RN. Ninety-five new graduate RNs answered a survey about demographic information and work setting, as well as their satisfaction and sense of belonging in the work environment. McCloskey-Mueller's Satisfaction Scale and a modified version of the Hagerty-Patusky Sense of Belonging Instrument were used.