Welcome to Navigate Nursing.

The American Nurses Association’s Navigate Nursing is dedicated to helping you become a stronger nurse leader. You have the skills and knowledge to deliver professional care to patients. We aim to provide you with valuable leadership resources to help you do your job better. 

We believe in healthy work environments and a healthier you! Use this site for information on how to create professional success, improve patient care environments, and expand your personal development. 

Whether you’re an advanced practice nurse, staff nurse, a novice or expert, Navigate Nursing has resources you can use. Navigate Nursing will provide resources to help you find your way through your career challenges on the course to a better you!

Navigating Healthier Lives: Wellness for Nurses

In a recent survey of primary care physicians, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discovered that overweight and obese physicians were less likely to discuss diet and exercise with their overweight patients. A majority of the “normal weight” physicians surveyed had more confidence in their ability to provide wellness advice to their patients. Do nurses model this behavior too?

For most patients, nurses are often the first people that they encounter in the health system. A healthier nurse may mean a healthier patient.

Please join us for an inspiring webinar especially for nurses on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 1:00 PM (eastern) that will help you integrate healthy habits into your home and professional life. Our program will focus on techniques to improve healthy eating and increase physical activity in order to reduce and prevent obesity. Our presenter, Holly Carpenter, BSN, RN, Senior Staff Specialist for the American Nurses Association’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, will outline several successful wellness programs, and discuss how nurses may incorporate wellness strategies into their busy lives.

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Health Coaches Help Patients Confront Challenges

Whether the goal is to lose weight or increase physical activity, health coaches are increasingly utilized to help mentor, motivate and guide patients. Many commercial health plans and Medicare Advantage offer health coaching to individuals seeking to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Health coaches may be trained as nurses, dieticians, social workers or other health professionals

Physician Body Mass Index May Impact Patient Care

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health published a study on the “Impact of Physician BMI on Obesity Care and Beliefs.” The national survey of 500 primary care physicians found that physicians with a normal body mass index (BMI) were more likely to engagte their obese patients in weight loss discussions as compared to overweight/obese physicians.

Stress May Link to Obesity in Nurses

A survey of 2,103 female nurses, conducted by the University of Maryland School of Nursing, found that nurses who worked long hours were more likely to be obese compared to normal weight nurses. The study, published in the Journal of Nursing Administration, also found that unfavorable nursing schedules had an impact on lifestyle behaviors.

At Navigate Nursing, we focus on helping nurses navigate their professional career.  For the latest news, facts, career tips, articles, educational programs, and publications, simply select from any of the following categories:

Professional Success
Patient Care Environments
Personal Development

Each category will lead you to important topics that impact nurses every day.  Learn more about the economic value of nursing, improving workplace design, how to stop bullying in the workplace, effective handoffs, becoming adjunct faculty, minimizing stress, and much, much more.

You can steer your own path through Navigate Nursing:

• Use the site for access to online resources
• Learn from educational webinars and earn continuing nursing education contact hours
• Communicate with your nursing peers through blog posts and Twitter feeds
• Read about topics that impact you directly then share with fellow nurses
• Return to the site often for late-breaking news affecting the nurse community

Navigate Nursing is here to help you succeed.