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Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Importance of Top-of-License Utilization

Daily Nurse

With ongoing challenges like staffing shortages, high turnover, and burnout, healthcare organizations are rethinking how they deliver care to better support nurses and improve patient outcomes. Listening to Nurses: The Key to Progress Healthcare leaders must truly listen to their nurses to make top-of-license utilization a reality.

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What LPN to RN and LPN to BSN Programs Are Available in Cincinnati?

Registered Nursing

Notably, the registered nurse (RN) vacancy rate surged by 81% in 2021 , reaching 13.9%the This shortage has led to hospitals closing beds that are needed due to a shortage of nursing staff. For licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in the Cincinnati metro area, this presents a significant opportunity. the highest since 2003.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

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20 jobs for nurses — with annual salary estimates — that don't involve bedside care

Becker's Hospital Review

Whether you've been a bedside nurse for decades or you are new to the profession, there are ways you can use your skills and nursing license that don't involve direct patient care.

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Should You Become a Nurse Practitioner?

Nurse.com

For Perion, “advocacy, collaboration, and communication” are the three key things she learned as a bedside nurse, and these are also the goals she brings into her NP practice each day. The Need for Nurse Practitioners. Patients “feel more at ease; they feel more collaboration [and] more advocacy” from NPs.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) reported that an estimated 100,000 (to as many as 200,000) RNs and 34,000 licensed practical (LPNs) and vocational nurses left the workforce over the past 2 years. The reason? The pandemic.

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Realizing Real-world Magnet Benefits

Minority Nurse

One significant benefit involves giving nurses the opportunity to provide input and influence nursing practice. ” Christine Frost, RN, DNP, MBA, NEA-BC, is the chief nursing officer at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center. “When bedside nurses influence the work environment, it increases their experience.