The Arkansas Center for Nursing recently released the winners of the prestigious award, ’40 Nurse Leaders Under 40’.  This award recognizes young nurse leaders who create an environment of trust, compassion, and mutual respect and motivate staff with a shared vision to achieve better outcomes for patients and nurses.  Congratulations to all 23 UAMS nurses […]

In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM, now National Academy of Medicine) published a key report, The Future of Nursing:  Leading Change, Advancing Health, in which they called on the profession of nursing to advance our education and expand our professional practice in order for the “health system [to] reap the full benefit of nurses’ […]

Nursing is a profession which is driven to positively affect the outcomes of patients and the healthcare industry through quality improvement, evidence-based practice, research, and innovation.  Our profession is guided by standards of practice and a code of ethics rooted in the principles of compassion, collaboration, and critical thinking.  As with other professions, nurses have […]

Research is the mechanism by which best treatments, care protocols, and medicines are determined to yield improved clinical outcomes; evidence-based practice (EBP) is the mechanism by which these proven treatments are brought to patients everywhere.  Use of EBP in nursing care has been shown to lead to better patient outcomes and higher nursing job satisfaction.  […]

Nursing theory and philosophy is not a highly desired course in nursing studies.  Most nursing students, regardless of program of study, are either terrified or annoyed at the thought of having to study nursing theory and philosophy.  Likewise, I doubt that many nurses (myself included) spend a lot of time brushing up on nursing theories […]

UAMS supports the advancement of nursing research and the evaluation and use of evidence-based findings in our practice.  The Center for Nursing Excellence is pleased to recognize the research and publication of findings related to PICC device securement and CLABSI by Mark Rowe, MNSc, RNP, VA-BC, and colleagues.  Mark performed a retrospective quality review of […]

The Oxford dictionary describes Excellence as “the quality of being outstanding or extremely good,” (Lexico.com).  Excellence is very different from perfection, which can be thought of as a state of being without mistake, flaw or fault.  Excellence is a state of maximizing performance to reach or exceed goals.  It requires knowledge, skill, focus, commitment and […]