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Finding Inner Peace While Managing an ICU

American Nurse

As nurse managers, we walk a fine line between structured leadership and the chaos of critically ill patients whose conditions can change in an instant. As nurse managers, we carry the weight of decisions, the emotional intensity of patient care, and the responsibility of leading teams through uncertainty (7).

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Sustaining Excellence: Knowledge Transfer and Strategic Planning in Nursing Leadership

American Nurse

The Need for Knowledge Transfer To address an impending shortage of nurses and nurse leaders, healthcare organizations need to develop a new generation of nurses with the leadership skills who can effectively lead teams in providing high-quality care. Studies by Roth and Whitehead (2019) and Ramseur et al.

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Nursing Burnout: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high-stress by nature—making decisions that can impact patients’ lives— and need to take extra care to avoid the mental and physical condition known as nursing burnout. We outline what nurse burnout is, its risks, how to prevent it and how to address it if it’s happening to you.

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Nursing ethics and shared governance model

American Nurse

Takeaways: Through shared governance, nurses are encouraged to participate in organizational decision-making to satisfy professional obligations. Incorporating ethical competence and professional development into everyday nursing practice is imperative to fulfilling ethical obligations for optimal patient care.

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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., 2019, Forsyth et al., 2020; Romppanen et al., 2017; Zhang et al.,

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Patient prejudice toward minoritized nurses

American Nurse

Organization-wide interventions present the best option for addressing patient behavior and maintaining nurse retention. Takeaways: Many patients expect that the nurse who cares for them will be White and female, despite the growing diversity of the nursing workforce. Of 4 million nurses surveyed, 8.1%

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Empowering Tomorrow’s Nurses: Building Resilience for a Fulfilling Career

American Nurse

Nursing is a profession that offers both extraordinary rewards and profound challenges. The intensity of nursing education often stretches students to their limits, preparing them for the realities of patient care. With the ongoing decline in nurses working in rural areas (Wakefield et al., With 42.5% 2021; Hughes et al.,