American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Today’s healthcare environment is fast-paced and dynamic, nurses must be prepared to inspire, innovate, and lead healthcare transformation (Sensmeier, 2021). Nursing is a knowledge-intensive profession. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. Realizing nurse-led innovation.

Nurse Entrepreneurs

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Challenge of Burnout in Nursing This alarming trend of burnout among new graduate nurses is often accompanied by decreased job satisfaction and difficulty adapting to the profession. With the ongoing decline in nurses working in rural areas (Wakefield et al., The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report (Wakefield et al.,

Self-Care

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

These brief forms help to reassure nurses that they’re not giving out too much information. After an individual nurse or nurse manager referring a team member submits the form, our peer support team matches the nurse with another nurse from a similar specialty. Their motivation stems from love and altruism.

Self-Care

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

JANUARY 15, 2023

1 These effective nurse leaders have strong communication skills and can inspire their staff to reach above and beyond. 1 While this style may motivate employees to perform well, it reduces the emphasis on nurse manager-facilitated inspiration, relationships and team goals. 1 , 2 , 5 Which Leadership Style is Best for Nurses?

Leadership

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. I am proud of a few things, so it is a challenge to name just one. -I

Long Term Care

American Nurse

JULY 10, 2023

I started off as a staff nurse. After 3 years, I became the nurse manager for a 32-bed comprehensive rehabilitation unit. At that time, I was the only female and the only nurse manager of color for about 12 years. I’ve been in leadership since early 2005, when I became a nurse manager.

Leadership

Consult QD

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Yet, due to healthcare’s historic chain of command and other factors, nurses often lack the confidence to speak up or act when they recognize a potential safety issue. In recent years, Cleveland Clinic has been working hard to change that.

Chief Nursing Officer

American Nurse

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, research suggests that implicit bias can negatively influence the types of images, words, and behaviors used to advertise and promote an organization and its workforce. Toxic Nursing: Managing Bullying, Bad Attitudes, and Total Turmoil. Stigma and bias from patients toward minoritized physicians and nurses.

Self-Care

American Nurse

JUNE 13, 2024

The coach acts as a catalyst, facilitating self-discovery, providing accountability, and offering support throughout the journey (Drake, 2021). The coach helps individuals identify their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for growth, while the mentor offers valuable guidance, perspective, and real-world experience (Drake, 2021).

Self-Care

Nurse.com

MARCH 21, 2023

In addition, it helps to choose people from both your professional and personal life — whether mentors, nurse managers , colleagues, family members, or friends. Editor’s Note: This blog was originally published in March 2021 and has been updated with new content. Everyone has a unique perspective to share.

Work-Life Balance

American Nurse

JANUARY 3, 2024

Establishing this connection engages nurses and helps them see the worth of scholarly work. The Magnet Recognition Program®, considered the gold standard and a road map for nursing excellence, also provides an avenue for helping nurses realize the connection between scholarly work, nursing practice, and patient outcomes.

Education

American Nurse

JULY 3, 2024

Let’s explore three mistakes many new managers make and what you can do instead to support your team and stay on your path to becoming a confident, successful leader. Pitfall #1: Assuming the role of protector and defender Impact: This approach may cost you the best nurses on your team. American Nurse Journal. 2024; 19(6).

Leadership

Post University

MARCH 7, 2023

Diversity Means Better Problem-Solving The more perspectives there are on nursing staff, the better the problem-solving. Diversity promotes creativity, and that means better patient care. In addition, it allows for new ideas regarding emergency procedures and nursing routines. According to Kimberly Nerud Ph.D.,

Promotion

American Nurse

JANUARY 5, 2024

Corporate social responsibility in the post-pandemic work environment Takeaways: The nursing profession must address climate change to protect and promote human health. Addressing climate change through corporate social responsibility is urgent and timely in the COVID-19 disaster recovery period for the nursing profession.

Psychiatry

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

As soon as the patient can safely ambulate, functional independence is promoted. In addition, out of 124 facilitators who completed post-cohort RTS evaluations since July 2021, 96% expressed satisfaction with the tools and training provided. The 12B vacancy rate continues to drop (from 15.31% in October 2021 to 08.04% in 2023).

Mental Health

The Nurse Break

AUGUST 24, 2022

COVID is the straw that broken the camels back, but these issues around culture and leadership have plagued the industry of healthcare for a long time and even pre-COVID the need for excellent nursing leadership across our health system was imperative to high quality care, reduced adverse event and retention of staff pre-covid.

Leadership

Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With almost 23 years in the field of nursing, McNulty has been able to help other nurses, both novice and experienced, to evolve into their roles on the busy medical-surgical/telemetry unit, now transitioning to step-down. Before I knew it, my nurse manager asked me to precept recent grads and nurses new to the hospital.

Preceptors

Nursing Review

JULY 10, 2023

According to Monash University 2021, ‘Vicarious trauma’ (VT) describes the cumulative effects of exposure to information about traumatic events and experiences, potentially leading to distress, dissatisfaction, hopelessness and serious mental and physical health problems.

Self-Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is imperative for nurses in practice to understand that for most adult patients, needles promote anxiety and may be recognized as traumatic and unpleasant (Mclenon & Rogers, 2019). At least two of the participants said they knew of the current pretreatment but were told by nurse managers not to use the policy.

Nursing Administration

American Nurse

JUNE 7, 2023

In addition to having strong population health knowledge and skills, nurses must also demonstrate confidence working autono­mous­ly, collaboratively, and innovatively as they lead in promoting community and population health. Some in the nursing profession see this focus as new, but population health isn’t new to nursing.

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