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Recent press releases:

TNA Applauds Texas Legislature for Prioritizing Nursing - June 1
Texas Nurses Applaud Passage of Nurse Friendly Bills - May 15
Outstanding 25 Nurses - May 9
Texas Nurses Applaud SB240 Passage - May 9

Podcasts:

TNA podcasts explore nursing policy, health care issues and the real-life nurse experience. Contact us if you are interested in being on our podcast. See all of the episodes on Spotify.

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Thursday, April 8, 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) Health Care Price Transparency Implementation in 2021 » SPONSORED POST By Juliana Moses In November 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services along with t...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) Medical Racism: Alive and Well » By Courtney Carden, MBA, MSN, RN “You don’t get sick until you go to the doctor.” Growing up, I heard this phr...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) International Women’s Day: Women Leading Nursing » On International Women’s Day, held annually on March 8, people across the world celebrate the achievements of women and pl...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Determining Health: When Health Care Cannot Solve Health Issues » By Maya Peterson, BSN, RN, CCRN Social determinants of health — the influence of the environment in which a person li...
Friday, February 26, 2021 (1 Comment - view/add) Foreign-Educated Nurses in Texas » By Roy Herron, MSN, RN Nurses are a diverse group of professional caregivers. We share a common choice to care for other...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| The Law on PPE » By Melinda Mitchell Jones, MSN, JD, RN, Kathleen Kearney, MSN, JD, RN, CNE, and Carrie Edwards, PhD, RN, CA/CP SANE, AFN-B...
Monday, December 14, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Making Kindness Matter in Healthcare » By Shonna Bracco, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CSSGB In a fast-paced, ever-changing environment such as health care, often the sma...
Thursday, December 10, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Obesity, Ethics and Healthcare: A Patient-Centered Approach » By Alison Colbert, PhD, PHCNS-BC, AND Melissa Kalarchian, PhD Nurses and other healthcare professionals may feel frust...
Monday, November 23, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Anti-Racism Call to Action \| How Nurses Can Fight Inequality » Developed by TNA’s Workplace Advocacy and Practice Committee The Texas Nurses Association supports nurses’...
Monday, November 23, 2020 (1 Comment - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Practicing Gratitude in Uncertain Times » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC This week is Thanksgiving. A time to give thanks and reflect on the things we are grat...
Monday, November 16, 2020 (2 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Palliative Care and Hospice – What’s the Difference? » By Ana Marie Houser, APRN, MSN, AGCNS-BC, AGPNP-BC, ACHPN George sat in his hospital room with his wife, trying to proc...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Service and Sacrifice: Two Veteran Nurse Reflections » This Veterans Day, we want to share the experience of two of TNA’s members who served, as well as their calls-t...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week: Preventing Burnout and Compassion Fatigue » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Registered nurse burnout has become an increasing concern over the last several years....
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Early Voting » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH When nurses save lives every day, voting can seem lik...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Normalizing Mental Health Among Nurses » By Dawn Webb, MSN, RN-BC This year has been extremely challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and everyd...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| The Race to 200M Flu Shots » By Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH In conjunction with American Nurses Association and Sanofi Pasteur , we are encouraging all n...
Thursday, September 24, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) A Tale of Two Vaccines » By Caroline Spana, PhD, RN Vaccines work in different ways for different reasons. Two vaccines developed in recent year...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| The Nurse’s Role in Health Policy. A Call to Action » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC I graduated nursing school with an associate degree in 2002. Upon graduation I did wh...
Thursday, August 27, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Nurses Know Best: Setting Safe Staffing Levels » By Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN It’s no secret that safe staffing is one of the main concerns of nurses working in acut...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Conversations that Work: National Immunization Awareness Month » By Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH While we often think that diseases like pertussis and measles are relics of the past, each...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Shifting the Culture: Nurses as Experts in the Media » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC The next issue of Texas Nursing magazine explores the concept of culture change an...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 (4 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Unconscious Bias: What Nurses Need to Know » By Colleen Marzilli, PhD, DNP, MBA, RN The year 2020 has taught nurses how our profession responds to adversity and chal...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| The Art of Developing Resilience in Difficult Times » By Jan Alexander, DNP, MDiv, MSN, RN, CPN Florence Nightingale remarked, “Live your life while you have it. Life...
Friday, July 24, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Workers Compensation and Unemployment Resources » By Jason Hassay, JD Nurses who contract SARS-CoV-2 and develop COVID-19 must refrain from working until at least 24 h...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Safe Harbor – A Positive Outlook » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Since the early stages of COVID-19, TNA has worked hard to educate nurses on the safe h...
Monday, June 29, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Creating Transgender Inclusive Health Care Spaces » By Amy Daly, DNP, MBA, RN, CCRN Transgender patients face a multitude of barriers to accessing primary health care. Th...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020 (3 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| The Importance of Nurses Serving on Boards » By Amy McCarthy MSN, RNC-MNN, NE-BC When you think of a Board of Directors, there may be a couple of things that pop...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 (2 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Tackling Social Injustices: Nurses Ending Racism » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Racism is one of the greatest threats to our country. We live in a society that m...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) OPINION: A Call to Action for Nurses » By Amy McCarthy, MSN, RNC-MNN, NE-BC Secretary, Texas Nurses Association On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was arrested...
Monday, May 11, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Hospital Week » By Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC National Hospital Week has roots dating back to 1921 when National Hospital Day was...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week \| Patient Advocacy Protections » By Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE The role of patient advocate has been long embraced by the nursing profession. Pr...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 (1 Comment - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week: Applying for Jobs with a Negative Background » By Julia Menegay, SHRM-SCP, SPHR Health Care Human Resources Week is March 16-20. To help nurses with a very common si...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week: Wise Health Care Consumers » By: Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH February is National Wise Health Care Consumer Month , and nurses have a role to play in ma...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week: Talking About Human Trafficking » By: Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH Last week, Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP, presented the most viewed Nurs...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 (0 Comments - view/add) Practice Tip of the Week: World Cancer Day Feb. 4 , 2020 » By Melissa Parmer, RN, CCM, MBA Worldwide, cancer is among the leading cause of death; in 2012, there were 8.2 million...
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