November 02, 2022 Medical-Surgical Nurses Week: It’s OUR Week CEO’s November Message for the AMSN Blog November 1st of each year is Medical-Surgical Nurses Day. Since then, we’ve been celebrating medical-surgical nurses from around the country and the world during Medical-Surgical Nurses Week from November 1-7th.
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July 07, 2022 AMSN Medical-Surgical Nursing Competency Framework AMSN recognized there was no consolidated set of competencies for medical-surgical nurses, and so we set about developing one.
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June 20, 2022 AMSN Webinar: Supporting Nurse Self-Care in the Workplace The webinar will examine how nurses can find ways to care for themselves, maintain job satisfaction & prevent burnout.
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March 16, 2021 Nursing Certification: Past & Present National Certified Nurses Day was established in 2006 in honor of Dr. Margretta Madden Styles, EdD, RN, FAAN.

She was an American nurse, author, educator, and nursing school dean who transformed the profession of nursing. Dr Styles was instrumental in developing stricter criteria and credentialling standards for nursing. She helped conceive and establish comprehensive standards for the national certifications of nurses. Certified Nurses Day is commemorated annually on her birthday March 19.

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November 30, 2020 Apocalyptic Nursing

We are all facing what I deem as apocalyptic nursing. None of us expected to be working under these conditions and I think it is appropriate terminology given the circumstances that we are facing.

As we face the second wave of COVID-19, hospitals are preparing for the worst. We, on the other hand, are preparing for the fight of our lives. So many of us have experienced the same thing. I am beaten up, tired, gasping for fresh air, and barely able to make sense of the first wave.

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May 05, 2019 Robin’s Nest A Sense of Community

It’s been a tough couple of months for nursing. In February, a nurse at Vanderbilt was arrested and charged with reckless homicide after a medication error resulted in the death of a patient. Just last month, nurses were in an uproar over Washington Senator Maureen Walsh’s uninformed comments about what nurses do. Incidents like these, and those that happen on a daily basis can bring nurses closer together to offer support and build a sense of community.

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