Minority Nurse

JULY 17, 2025

A Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) is a terminal degree for nurses that provides them not only with the clinical skills necessary to practice as an advanced practice provider but also with the leadership skills necessary to implement change through the application of evidence-based research into practice. As healthcare continuously evolves, DNPs must be part of leadership teams, as they are uniquely positioned with their clinical expertise and education to help navigate these changes within the

Leadership

Emerging RN Leader

JULY 20, 2025

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I have been thinking a lot recently about the nursing workload conundrum. All of our recent workforce data indicate the same thing – nurses feel exhausted, burned out, and unable to manage the workloads assigned to them. I hear this in my work in Oregon and California […] The post Rethinking Nursing Workloads appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 21, 2025

CNOs must be ready to adapt to the generational differences that Gen Z nurses bring to the table. Nowadays, there are plenty of issues in nursing to keep CNOs busy, but one of the biggest ones is nurse turnover. As it stands now, the national RN turnover rate sits at about 16.4%. What does that number mean though and what should CNOs do about it? Press Ganey recently released the Nurse Experience 2025 report, which relies on feedback from over 500,000 RNs, APPs, and other clinical staff across t

Leadership

American Nurse

JULY 28, 2025

It’s time to get back to the basics. Lillee Gelinas Last month’s editorial made clear that the future of healthcare delivery hinges on our ability to optimize the work of nurses and enable them to practice the essence of nursing. This editorial explains how. It’s not easy to define basic nursing care in terms relevant to all settings. Yet ensuring the delivery of basic care has never been more important.

Business

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

Business

Daily Nurse

JULY 14, 2025

Nurses are under attack—literally. And one Philadelphia-based nurse-led organization is saying enough is enough. Guardian Nurses Healthcare Advocates has launched Protect Our Nurses , a bold, multi-channel advocacy campaign calling for federal legislation and national awareness to address the escalating epidemic of workplace violence against nurses and healthcare workers.

Care coordination

Healthy Workforce Institute

JULY 9, 2025

If you want to create a high-performing, respectful team, one of the most important things you can do is learn how to break the “us vs. them” mentality. In an environment where teamwork literally saves lives, division among staff destroys trust, drains morale, and ultimately harms patients. From day shift versus night shift, nurses versus physicians, newcomers versus. veterans, and even staff versus. leadership — the “us vs. them” mentality is everywhere.

Leadership

Emerging RN Leader

JULY 6, 2025

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Our Generation Z nurses are career ambitious, which is terrific. Yet increasingly, nurse leaders report that they have nurses applying for roles for which they lack the necessary experience or clinical skills to be successful. Consider the following story: We recently posted a vacancy for an Assistant […] The post How Much Clinical Experience is Enough to be a Leader appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 9, 2025

Storytelling and data are the keys to successful advocacy efforts, say these nurse leaders. Legislators play a key role in nursing practice, from scope of practice to workplace violence prevention to patient care delivery. But right now, most of the elected officials making decisions about nursing policy are not nurses. According to a 2023 study , the number of nurses serving as legislators has declined from 2013.

Medicaid

American Nurse

JULY 29, 2025

Balancing Leadership, Compassion, and Resilience in High-Stakes Healthcare The monitors beep in rhythmic bursts, a mechanical symphony of life hanging in the balance. The weight of decisions presses against my chest—some choices urgent, some haunting. In the midst of the chaos, I pause, inhaling deeply, grounding myself in the present. Managing an ICU is relentless.

Leadership

Daily Nurse

JULY 10, 2025

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) professionals play a crucial role in the evolution of the healthcare system. The role of the DNP extends beyond the bedside, focusing on leading teams, shaping policy, implementing evidence-based practices, and driving improvements in care delivery and organizational change. To meet these demands, DNPs must possess more than clinical expertise by exhibiting a robust set of leadership skills.

Leadership

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.

Communication

Diversity Nursing

JULY 16, 2025

In the grand narrative of healthcare, the spotlight often shines brightest on dramatic interventions – emergency surgeries, groundbreaking treatments, and heroic resuscitations. Yet, lurking quietly in the background, making a profound and often unseen difference, is the steady, vital work of preventative Nursing care. It's the silent force that saves lives, improves quality of life, and ultimately, reshapes the health of communities.

Promotion

Minority Nurse

JULY 4, 2025

Graduating from nursing school and becoming a new nurse is a remarkable accomplishment that can generate a range of emotions, including excitement, fear, anxiety, joy, and both positive and negative feelings. With many new nurses abandoning their nursing careers within the first few years, the nursing profession and the organizations that employ new nurses need to consider the crucial nature of the support that new nurses need and deserve as they enter the workforce.

Preceptors

Emerging RN Leader

JULY 23, 2025

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I often discuss with young nurse leaders the importance of seeking out mentors, especially as they assume new roles. Recently, a new manager asked me about how to find a mentor. She explained that she is pretty introverted and is hesitant to approach leaders in her organization […] The post Finding a Mentor appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

Communication

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 10, 2025

Knowing how to communicate with legislators and governing bodies is an essential part of nursing advocacy. When it comes to participation in the legislative process, it's important to identify and build relationships with local, state, and federal policymakers. CNOs should know who the decision-makers are and what committees they are on, and try to become their subject matter experts who they can call upon to discuss nursing-related issues.

Best Practices

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

An estimated 1.1 billion women worldwide will have experienced menopause by 2025. Symptoms like hot flashes, fatigue, and anxiety can be incredibly disruptive — and last for years. But despite its massive impact, little is being done to support those going through menopause in the workplace. In a recent survey, 70% of respondents said they have considered changing their employment to better manage symptoms — perhaps because only 8% received significant support from their employer related to meno

American Nurse

JULY 14, 2025

The effects on novice clinical adjunct nursing faculty According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the current national nursing shortage leaves many nursing roles—in acute care, long-term care, and community settings—unfilled. To prepare more future nurses, pre-licensure nursing programs require adequate faculty. Although ideal nursing faculty have received training in nursing education pedagogy, as of 2022, according to Smiley and colleagues, only 17.4% of the over 5 million RNs in the Un

Best Practices

Daily Nurse

JULY 24, 2025

Burnout impacts approximately 38% of nurses each year. Burnout isn’t a small issue, either. It can lead to a lack of empathy, a sense of dread as they head into work, and extra stress that could impact their physical and mental well-being. Countless factors contribute to nurse burnout, from a busy schedule to difficult patients and demanding daily tasks.

Nursing Burnout

Empowered Nurses

JULY 31, 2025

Picture this: You’re a school nurse preparing for an exciting field trip to Washington D.C., but your home state is Maryland. As you carefully organize medications for three students with diabetes, one with severe allergies, and another with ADHD, a nagging question keeps surfacing—can you legally administer these life-sustaining medications once you cross that invisible line into another state?

Licensing

Minority Nurse

JULY 10, 2025

I didn’t truly understand what nursing was until I began practicing it. Like many, I entered the profession because I loved people and science. But it wasn’t until I experienced community health firsthand that I discovered the beating heart of nursing—meeting people where they are, supporting them before a crisis, and helping them stay healthy and whole in their everyday lives.

LPN

Speaker: Lizzie Wright - Director of Customer Success at Carrot Fertility

Employee expectations around benefits and workplace support have evolved in step with the growing need for fertility and family-forming care. As HR professionals, it is our job to ensure employees have a comprehensive understanding of the benefits our organizations offer and how they can utilize them. Before educating employees, we first need to understand the rising healthcare costs and the financial burden of fertility care.

Education

Nursing Times

JULY 22, 2025

LOGIN / FREE TRIAL Menu Menu LOGIN / FREE TRIAL Subscribe Nursing Times Resources for the nursing profession ‘Nursing Times gets personal with new suite of functions to support readers’ STEVE FORD, EDITOR Home Topics CPD Students Newly registered Archive Ask Nursing Times Events Careers Jobs Subscribe HOT TOPICS Anatomy Core skills Leadership Children’s nursing Education Hospital nursing You are here: Nurse wellbeing ‘High-quality care is not just about patients but about those deliv

Self-Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 28, 2025

From easing discharge and enhancing safety to scaling Hospital at Home and solving workforce gaps, HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind participants are leading a quiet revolution. Today’s virtual nursing strategy, as defined by participants in the 2025 HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program, sponsored by Microsoft, is to expand platforms to create multiple points of value.

Telemedicine

American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

A culture of support enhances success. The learning that occurs when a student or new nurse works with a preceptor can prove pivotal in their professional journey. Preceptors—who educate students, new graduates, and new employees in the clinical environment—continue to demonstrate a positive effect on recruitment, onboarding, and retention. They have a significant impact on how new graduates experience the beginning of their career.

Preceptors

Daily Nurse

JULY 21, 2025

Nursing certifications are essential for nurses and provide additional assurance that the RNs caring for patients are competent, well-trained, seasoned professionals. Numerous studies demonstrate that nurse certification improves patient care and safety. According to a 2002 poll, more than 73% of individuals pick a hospital that employs a more significant proportion of nurses with specialty certification.

Nursing Certifications

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.

Health Outcomes

Empowered Nurses

JULY 17, 2025

As nurses, we’re hardwired to help. It doesn’t matter if we’re on the clock, in scrubs, or just trying to enjoy a day at the park—we hear a cry for help, and our instinct kicks in. But when you’re off-duty and a medical emergency unfolds in front of you, there’s something else you need to engage before you take action: your judgment. Because while the heart says, “Do something,” the professional reality whispers, “Be careful.

Licensing

Minority Nurse

JULY 29, 2025

Nurses have bad days, too. When we’re sad and need someone to talk to, sometimes friends and family aren’t available, and we end up feeling lonely, fearful, and anxious as thoughts bubble up from the surface. Existing stigma tells you that taking care of your mental health is unnecessary or not worth it. Still, stigma can increase social isolation and cause those to sink deeper into mental illness.

Mental Health

Relias

JULY 2, 2025

For those working in human services, compassion fatigue and the associated symptoms of burnout occur all too often. Caring for clients going through trauma or who have difficult living conditions can have adverse effects on staff’s mental health. In order to take care of your staff, it’s important to adopt a trauma-informed care approach within your own organization.

Self-Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 11, 2025

CNOs and other nurse leaders need to get involved in policy and advocacy so that nurses can be the ones leading the way for legislative change. In the latest edition of HealthLeaders' The Winning Edge webinar series, a panel of nurse leaders discussed how to collaborate with professional organizations, educate policymakers, and drive nursing-forward agendas that impact patient care, healthcare equity, and workforce development and sustainability.

Leadership

American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

“Nursing doesn’t need more followers— It needs voices that challenge, innovate, and lead.” As a student nurse from rural Alabama, I’m not waiting until I graduate to shape the future of nursing, because I can already see where change is needed. From hospital closures and nurse staffing crises to the growing disconnect between policy and practice, the profession is in a state of urgency.

Leadership

Daily Nurse

JULY 30, 2025

What does it take to ensure today’s nursing graduates are prepared for real-world practice? According to Dr. Ruth A. Wittmann-Price — a trailblazing nurse educator, author, and researcher — the answer lies in competency-based education (CBE). On Episode 523 of The Nurse Keith Show podcast , host Keith Carlson dives into a timely and insightful conversation with Dr.

Education

Emerging RN Leader

JULY 16, 2025

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many leaders today report to me that they feel like they are the device police on their units. When they attempt to raise concerns with staff about the importance of remaining situationally aware today, they often receive blank stares or shrugs of disinterest. Consider the following story […] The post Teaching Situational Awareness appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

Communication

Minority Nurse

JULY 1, 2025

When the COVID-19 pandemic upended healthcare, many nurses found themselves treading water. Kim Gadiwalla dove headfirst into change. A critical care nurse turned clinical educator, Gadiwalla now leads content strategy at Elemeno Health , a public benefit corporation that’s transforming how nurses learn—by delivering microlearning in real time, right at the bedside.

Nurse Educator

Registered Nursing

JULY 18, 2025

Each year, the Commonwealth Fund releases a detailed Scorecard on State Health System Performance, evaluating how well U.S. states deliver high-quality, affordable, and equitable care. The 2025 edition sheds light on fragile healthcare improvements amid growing disparities – and highlights opportunities for transformation. For registered nurses across all practice areas, the data is more than just a report card.

Medicaid

Post University

JULY 16, 2025

Nurse practitioners (NPs) provide comprehensive healthcare services, from assessing and examining patients to ordering diagnostic tests, diagnosing illnesses, and treating or managing diseases. Additionally, nurse practitioners work with patients to promote wellness and prevent health problems with health education and preventive care. According to data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nearly 90% of the 355,000 licensed nurse practitioners in the United States are tra

Nurse Practitioner