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Contributed Content: How Nurses Can Practice Self-Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

Prioritizing self-care is crucial for maintaining well-being and can help reduce compassion fatigue and lower stress levels, says this nurse educator. But what many nurses fail to do is take care of themselves. Self-care can enhance mental and physical health, ultimately leading to improved patient care.

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Nursing Care Plan: Guide with Example & Writing Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Care plans are a way to strategically approach and streamline the nursing process. Lets review the fundamentals of a nursing care plan and how to create one, step by step. Well outline best practices and provide you with a nursing care plan example that you can download and print. Table of Contents What Is a Nursing Care Plan?

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Masters in Nursing (MSN) Salary and Highest-Paid Jobs

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

CRNAs provide leadership to the anesthesia team while ensuring patient safety and optimal care through advanced technical expertise and clinical judgment. These advanced practice nurses must combine technical expertise with compassionate patient care while maintaining calm under pressure.

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Physical Therapist Skills: 12 Qualities to Career Success

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Be Compassionate To work in patient care, you need compassion, as patients might feel anxious about their treatment. Successful physical therapists care about the well-being of their patients. A patient who understands their care plan is more likely to succeed. The University of St. Jordan Utley, Cindy Mathena, Tina Gunaldo.,

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The Relentless School Nurse: Reflecting on 2024 – A Year of Growth and Connection

The Relentless School Nurse

As we wrap up 2024, Im grateful and amazed at how far we’ve come together through The Relentless School Nurse blog. Throughout 2024, our community has fearlessly confronted critical issues facing school nursing. It’s a testament to the power of self-advocacy and inclusivity in our field. Drumroll, please!

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10 Strategic Steps to Eradicating Racism in Nursing Education

Daily Nurse

While faculty and administrators may have concerns about negative feedback along their anti-racism journey, systematic reviews published in 2017 and 2020 have shown that bringing awareness and addressing racism may improve workplace satisfaction and retention, engagement, self-efficacy, and student learning environments.

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How to Retrain Your Brain: 8 Tips for Positivity and Success

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Positive self-talk has the power to retrain your brain and propel you to great heights. 1 Negative self-talk can bring you down, where you feel like giving up. If you are engaging in negative self-talkberating yourself about a bad grade or telling yourself you wont succeedits time to learn how to retrain your brain.