Academic writing in nursing is not intuitive. It is a craft with specific requirements, specific conventions, and a specific relationship to evidence and argument that is not the same as writing in any other context. A clinical note is not an academic paper. A patient education handout is not a scholarly analysis. A nursing care plan is not an inte

The screen was supposed to be a door. That was the promise of online education, the foundational argument for why it mattered that these programs existed, why it was worth building the infrastructure and hiring the faculty and designing the curriculum for delivery through a digital interface rather than a physical classroom. The screen was the thin

The best nurses in any hospital are not necessarily the ones who would perform best in a graduate nursing program assessment, and this is one of the most important and least discussed truths in nursing education. The skills that make a nurse exceptional at the bedside, the clinical intuition, the patient communication, the ability to act quickly an