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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Registered Nursing
JULY 31, 2025
El Paso sits at the western tip of Texas, where the Franklin Mountains meet the Rio Grande, and a vibrant binational culture thrives. As home to Fort Bliss, the largest U.S. Army installation by area, and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, the city offers unique clinical partnerships and research initiatives in trauma, emergency care, and critical care settings.
Daily Nurse
JULY 31, 2025
When Jeanny Camden, LPN, was just 11 years old, she spent six harrowing weeks in the hospital with a ruptured appendix—and the experience nearly broke her. Ignored by nurses, battling a high fever, and later developing MRSA, she left the hospital not just with scars, but with a mission. “I want to be better than that,” Camden says. “I don’t want to be that person to somebody else.
Health Leaders | Nursing
JULY 30, 2025
To help find common ground with Gen Z, CNOs should focus on communication and flexibility. 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%. Press Ganey recently released the Nurse Experience 2025 report, which relies on feedback from over 500,000 RNs, APPs, and other clinical staff across the country.
American Nurse
AUGUST 1, 2025
DEAR MISSOURI NURSES, As your President, I want to take a moment to thank you—for your compassion, your courage, and your commitment to providing exceptional care across Missouri. Whether you’re at the bedside, in a clinic, a classroom, or the community, your work makes a difference every single day. At the Missouri Nurses Association (MONA), we are proud to represent you and to fight for the issues that matter most to our profession.
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.
Empowered Nurses
JULY 31, 2025
Build Your Business, One Relationship at a Time As a nurse business owner, you’re used to wearing many hats—clinician, CEO, marketer, and sometimes, head janitor. But one of the most powerful roles you’ll ever step into is that of a connector. Whether you’re launching a legal nurse consulting firm, wellness coaching practice, or healthcare staffing agency, networking isn’t optional—it’s essential.
Emerging RN Leader
JULY 30, 2025
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN In a recent workshop, a nurse manager shared with the group the difficulties she was experiencing in gaining staff cooperation for some of the changes she wanted to implement in the unit. They simply don’t seem to care about improving things. I have tried to be positive, […] The post Words Have Power in Leadership appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Nurse Practitioners in Business
JULY 30, 2025
It seems that every week, I come across another press release from the OIG (Office of Inspector General) announcing that a healthcare provider has been convicted of Medicare fraud. The OIG for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with a host of other agencies, investigates fraud in healthcare. For years, I have been a subscriber to the OIG list, and it’s always sobering and sad to hear of healthcare providers who are involved in healthcare fraud.
Health Leaders | Nursing
AUGUST 1, 2025
While many CNOs are focused on the present, they need to look to the future and consider what will happen once they move on. Succession planning is essential for CNOs who want to ensure the sustainability of their health systems when the time comes for new leadership. However, it's not that easy. Nurses now have many options and potential career paths, and the leadership role is not one that comes without difficulty.
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 30, 2025
Take a bundled approach to improve the patient experience. Takeaways: The bundle approach to implementing the commit-to-sit initiative positively impacts patient experience scores. Focused efforts related to sitting with patients, nursing communication skills, nurse leader rounding, and transparent data sharing move nurse domain scores in the positive direction.
Penn Nursing
JULY 29, 2025
Penn Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel recently moderated a pivotal congressional briefing, "Powered by Evidence: Quality Patient Care Requires Nursing Science." The event, co-hosted by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), brought together congressional staff, nursing leaders, and stakeholders to highlight the profound impact of nursing science on chronic disease management, prevention, and the responsible use of AI in healthcare.
Nursing Review
JULY 28, 2025
For Australian healthcare professionals, the requirement to keep skills and knowledge up-to-date is omnipresent. Research, medical discoveries, changing regulations, and evolving patient-care needs all mean the learning never stops. But with widespread workforce shortages contributing to ever-busier shifts and sometimes unpredictable schedules, finding the time for traditional training sessions can be tough.
Daily Nurse
JULY 29, 2025
As a nurse, life moves fast. Working long hours, managing emotional highs and lows, and caring for others with compassion. In the middle of it all, it’s easy to let your mental health take the backseat. Whether you’re working nights, rotating shifts, or adjusting to life on the road as a travel nurse, finding time to care for yourself can feel nearly impossible.
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.
Health Leaders | Nursing
JULY 29, 2025
Where nursing goes, so does a health system, says this CNO. On this episode of HL Shorts, we hear from Jeff Doucette , CNO at Press Ganey, about the Nurse Experience 2025 report and what it means for nurse engagement. Tune in to hear his insights.
American Nurse
JULY 29, 2025
Building competence and confidence in your specialty Marianne Horahan Whether you’re already a certified nurse or exploring this possibility, it’s helpful to understand the value of certification and how it can position you for success throughout your nursing career. Certified individuals report feeling a sense of pride and achievement, feeling more professionally competent, having improved employability and advancement, and being positioned for better compensation and career longevity, accordin
Registered Nursing
AUGUST 1, 2025
Cleveland's iconic Rock & Roll Hall of Fame towers on the shores of Lake Erie, symbolizing the city's blend of cultural heritage and innovation. Over the past five years, behavioral health visits in Cuyahoga County have surged by 22 percent, even as there remains just one mental health provider for every 1,200 residents, highlighting an urgent need for advanced practitioners.
American Medical Compliance
AUGUST 1, 2025
When documentation mistakes happen, the costs can be steep: denied claims, billing delays, compliance risks, and even patient safety issues. In fact, documentation issues have been estimated to play a role in 10–20% of medical malpractice lawsuits , as reported in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. For healthcare providers, one of the most effective ways to reduce these risks is by training your team—consistently and strategically.
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.
Capitol Beat
JULY 31, 2025
Since President Trump took office, we have seen an Administration-wide push to eliminate unnecessary regulations. Back in January, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO), Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation , requiring agencies to get rid of ten existing regulations for every new regulation introduced. This builds on deregulatory efforts from President Trump’s first term, where agencies were asked to get rid of two regulations for every new regulation introduced—now at a 5x larger
The Gypsy Nurse
JULY 31, 2025
Telemetry nursing has emerged as one of the most financially rewarding specializations in healthcare. These skilled professionals monitor patients with complex cardiac and respiratory conditions using advanced medical equipment, making their expertise invaluable to hospitals nationwide. The combination of specialized training requirements, high-stress environments, and critical patient care responsibilities has created strong demand for telemetry nurses.
American Nurse
JULY 30, 2025
The journey to organizational growth Jennifer-Mensik-Kennedy Thousands of nurses from across the United States and the globe will convene October 8–10, in Atlanta, GA, for the 2025 Magnet & Pathway Conference™. Nurses who attend this extraordinary meeting will connect with peers, learn best practices, and explore innovative strategies in the nursing profession.
Registered Nursing
AUGUST 1, 2025
Aspiring nurses in Springfield, Illinois, have access to a range of affordable Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) programs that offer an entry point into the healthcare workforce. As the demand for registered nurses continues to climb nationwide—projected to grow by 6% through 2032 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics —ADN programs provide a cost-effective and time-efficient pathway to licensure.
Health Leaders | Nursing
JULY 28, 2025
When two nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital posted on social media recently that they’re being run ragged and patient care is being strained by the Pittsburgh health system giant’s staffing practices, it highlighted a long-running national debate over the right patient-to-nurse ratios. UPMC officials dispute allegations that their policies are a problem.
Daily Nurse
JULY 28, 2025
When you’re looking for a new position to advance your nursing career, everything you do throughout your job search is a form of job market analysis. From cover letters and resumes to networking and interviews, each piece of data informs how things will eventually turn out. Additionally, the feedback you receive from the marketplace provides timely and valuable feedback on what you’re doing right and what you might consider doing differently.
The Gypsy Nurse
JULY 27, 2025
Boundaries aren’t just helpful—they’re essential. For travel nurses, they can be the difference between thriving on the road and running on empty. But let’s be honest: when you’re jumping into new facilities, adjusting to different teams, and trying to stay flexible, setting boundaries can feel… awkward. You became a travel nurse for the adventure, the flexibility, the freedom.
American Nurse
JULY 30, 2025
Guidance for recognition and response to subtle yet damaging harms. Microaggressions in nursing and patient care remain under-identified and under-addressed yet have ethical significance in our profession. Better recognition of microaggressions when they occur will enable nurses to address them in the moment and help maintain a civil and safe work environment.
Registered Nursing
JULY 31, 2025
Fort Worth, known as "Cowtown," blends Western heritage with a thriving healthcare education community. Home to Texas Christian University's renowned health sciences campus and the pioneering Fort Worth Museum of Science and History , the city offers nurse educators a dynamic environment for training the next generation of clinicians. In North Texas's second-largest metro area, you'll find extensive clinical partnerships with Cook Children's Health Care System, John Peter Smith Health Network, a
Nursology
JULY 29, 2025
Guest Contributor: Leah KorkisDirector of Clinical Education and Nursing Excellence, University of Southern California I grew up kayaking with my Dad off the shores of Kailua, Oahu. I remember with each stroke of my paddle the shifting winds blowing through my hair, the rhythmic lapping of waves, and the mysterious expanse stretching beneath and beyond.
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