When ER Nurses Ask, Patient Outcomes Improve

When ER Nurses Ask, Patient Outcomes Improve

Emergency rooms are not safe places to make assumptions. That’s why nurses who are unafraid to ask questions can significantly improve the health outcomes for their patients. Elizabeth Even, MSN, RN, CEN, is an emergency department nurse at Northwestern Memorial...
An Ask Was Her Ticket to Success

An Ask Was Her Ticket to Success

More than anything, Raven Anne Lucas wanted to be a healer. A career in massage therapy beckoned. Though she and her husband were employed, a mortgage and high school-aged child made challenging the $3,000 down payment for massage school. Even so, Raven Anne figured...
Would You Ask for Peanuts?

Would You Ask for Peanuts?

Once, when a flight attendant offered me a bag of peanuts, I asked for two. The passengers next to me, a couple in their thirties, turned their heads in my direction, eyebrows lifted, as if I’d asked for the entire snack cart. Their heads whipped back to the flight...