In addition to the upcoming ONS publication Telephone Triage for Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses (available October 2010), the ONS Putting Evidence Into Practice resources can be used as guidelines for telephone and clinical triage. And the discussion boards on the ONS SIGs Virtual Communities often have topics such as triage, protocols, or similar ones that may be of use.

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Accreditation organizations such as the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) provide specialty standards and guidance for improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities. Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, CCHP, has been a nurse for 25 years and is on the national taskforce working to develop a correctional nursing [...]

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Nurses have long been involved with cancer vaccines. Ellen Giarelli, EdD, CRNP, research associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, wrote “Cancer Vaccines: A New Frontier in Prevention and Treatment” in the 2007 Oncology Nurse Edition and she co-presented the 2008 ONS Congress session “Cancer Vaccines: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues on Vaccine Development and Use.”

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Nurses and librarians have partnered for many years, and their professional collaboration has markedly increased with the growth of informatics, evidence-based practice, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet Recognition Program, as numerous articles attest.

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Research in this area has been ongoing for years. A 1993 survey of 257 clinical nurse specialists identified several factors influencing the choice of specialty—including experience in the first position, having a clinical role model, and student experience—and also found critical care rated the most desirable specialty and psychiatric nursing the least.

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