As new presidential administrations come in, top politically appointed positions are customarily asked to submit letters of resignations as a courtesy to the incoming president. This was no different when President Trump entered the White House.

New legislation proposing to allow nurse practitioners the ability to practice to the full extent of their licensure is making its way through the Pennsylvania House and Senate. The bill was introduced to help ease the burden on healthcare professionals by loosening restrictions on the supervision over nurse practitioners.

In a new international partnership, ONS is teaming up with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) to provide opportunities for ONS members to work with healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Volunteers are given the opportunity to make an impact by sharing their expertise through educating, training, and developing healthcare professionals in LMICs.

Nurses have a plethora of opportunities available to them beyond clinical practice. At times, these pathways are surprising and far from straight. Here are three career trajectories as told by fellow nurses.

Businessman W. Clement Stone opined, “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

April is car­ing for a patient with bil­iary can­cer. She receives a new chemother­apy order for cis­platin fol­lowed by gem­c­itabine on days 1 and 8 every three weeks. The stan­dard sequence in April’s hos­pi­tal is to admin­is­ter plat­inum agents last. How­ever, the order clearly states to admin­is­ter the cis­platin first. What would you do?