Minority Nurse

JULY 4, 2025

The succession pipeline must eventually be filled by these novices who will become the competent and expert nurses of the future, and organizations need to feed and water new nurses as if they were the seeds of the future — which, in fact, they are.

Preceptors

Minority Nurse

APRIL 14, 2025

However, it can be hard to take a sip when nurses’ schedules keep them busy. Nurses stay active and moving, so drinking water to hydrate is important to avoid dehydration. Even mild dehydration can hurt nurses’ work performance by reducing their cognitive function and concentration.

Self-Care

Diane Sieg

APRIL 16, 2025

Heather, a nurse manager in the middle of another busy week, was feeling overwhelmed with too many projects, personnel and promises to manage. Here are 5 ways we all experience resistance (aka known as excuses, rationalizations and procrastinations) that keep us stuck in our mindsets: Busy. I dont have time for… Deny.

Business

Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Onboarding is a key but often overlooked part of improving any business’s attrition rate. However, according to the survey, the most significant strategic focus for healthcare organizations is something altogether removed from the clinical side: onboarding.

Business

Minority Nurse

MAY 1, 2025

Many nurses start their day in a rush, getting morning coffee right after waking up and driving to work thinking about their day ahead. Sometimes, pausing momentarily and reciting a mantra out loud isn’t a first thought because life feels too busy. Thankfully, there is no right or wrong way to recite affirmations.

Self-Care

Minority Nurse

JUNE 26, 2025

We nurses must trust ourselves to make informed career decisions, remain in the profession for the right reasons, and remove ourselves from the fray when we’re burned out. Nursing is a wide-open field with limitless possibilities ranging from the healthcare front lines to the outside-the-lines worlds of nurse entrepreneurship and business.

Preceptors

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Impact of the Nursing Shortage Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses 12 The nursing shortage of skilled RNs entering and remaining in the workforce affects patient care and other members of the healthcare team. Flexible options, such as the learning pathways offered at the University of St.

Nurse Shortage

Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re busy and would instead not pick up a paintbrush, find guided journals that provide prompts. Nurses stuck in a negative rut can look for gratitude journals to reflect on what they enjoy or are grateful for. Use this method to document life events, advice, or quotes that inspire you.

Promotion

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Countless factors contribute to nurse burnout, from a busy schedule to difficult patients and demanding daily tasks. It’s growing rapidly in the healthcare industry, and while it offers efficiency and innovation, it can also contribute to increased stress and fatigue among nursing professionals.

Nursing Burnout

Celayix

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended traditional scheduling norms, prompting healthcare facilities to turn to nurse scheduling software for a more streamlined transition. Let’s first look at why nurse scheduling software is so essential right now. To create a better work environment, medical practices should empower their nurses.

Business

Celayix

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Every business has an idea of the best shift patterns they can use. The shift patterns a healthcare business chooses may need to support those whose livelihoods rely on it. Shift work is typically used by businesses that require operation outside of traditional hours. What are shift patterns and why are they used?

Business

Nurse.com

JANUARY 23, 2023

Nurses continued to care for patients with COVID-19 and address the fears that come with the diagnosis. The pandemic also exacerbated the challenges nurses already faced before COVID-19 and created new ones. Understaffed and unsafe work environments make it impossible for nurses to do the work they signed up to do.

Nursing Burnout

Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

We sat down with Jeannine Raymond , RN, MS, chief nurse executive at Nursa , to discuss the pressures and hazards facing nurses around mental health, the role schedule flexibility plays, how health systems can identify nurse burnout before it progresses, and the benefits needed to keep nurses healthy.

Mental Health

The Gypsy Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A helping profession can also put nurses and other helping professionals, like doctors and mental health professionals, under a lot of stress because of the responsibility placed upon them. That said, the following self-care tips for nurses are meant to be actionable steps you can immediately and build your self-care routine today.

Self-Care

Daily Nurse

MARCH 4, 2024

Dr. Newton suggests self-sufficient pets like cats or smaller pets like hamsters, guinea pigs, or fish for busy professionals. Maybe you’d prefer a pet with less hair and might adopt a hamster instead. Either way, no “one size fits all” pets work for everyone.

Mental Health

Daily Nurse

MAY 20, 2024

Given these circumstances, conventional healthcare workweek schedules may not align with nurses’ busy lives, contributing to their departure from the profession. One of the key factors influencing nurses’ decisions to stay or leave their positions is the level of control they have over their schedules.

Self-Care

Celayix

JUNE 7, 2023

Unlike standard day-to-day staff scheduling, many variables need to be considered when scheduling a Nurse or LTC staff member. These include business needs, client needs, government regulations, hour thresholds, mandatory break periods, and more. This can also lead to nurse burnout and lower than intended patient care standards.

Long Term Care

Minority Nurse

MAY 20, 2024

Here is some advice for why your health is so important and how to stay active and eat right during your busy life. Why Wellness And Nursing Must Go Hand-In-Hand Although most nurses spend a lot of time moving from place to place, it’s still a sad fact that obesity is more common in the nursing field than many may think.

Nursing Burnout

Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This ease of care ensures that nurses enjoy having a green companion in their living space without adding significant demands to their busy schedules. They’re also low-maintenance, requiring only occasional waterings — around every 10-14 days, but can go as long as three weeks between waterings.

Promotion

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We encourage all members to explore running for this position to have this incredible, energizing, experience and opportunity. Thank you for the opportunity to attend and represent the KSNA members.

Retirement

Digital Doorway

APRIL 17, 2023

Did it take psychotherapy, career and business coaching, my wife's undying support, and an amazing leap of faith to make it happen? I know nurses who've taken incredible risks to make a career shift. I've also met nurses who've simply known what to do, and their career transition actually did seem like magic -- even to them.

Self-Care

Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Healthcare is a business, and every business has to show a return on investment. If nurses bill for their services or are recognized for everything they bring, you can see that it’s worth investing in nursing to get a higher return. People always look at how much we pay a department and then ask what they produce.

Nurse Shortage

Nurse.com

MARCH 2, 2023

In this study, when more nurses took sick leave, it produced larger workloads for the remaining staff, creating a cycle of excessive working and burnout. Scenarios like these are all too familiar in nursing, and enforcing limits can be a means to disrupt this cycle and reduce the risk of burnout.

Mental Health

Minority Nurse

JULY 14, 2023

In fact, she wanted to be a professional dancer before she thought about being a nurse. “ But she soon realized that the business was more focused on outward appearance rather than the inward healing dance provided. Bringing Dance to the Nurses Pre-COVID, Rynders says that nursing leadership was downplaying nurses burnout.

Nursing Burnout

Celayix

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This can also lead to decreased business and reduced revenue. This is a huge issue for both patients, and business owners in home healthcare. Not only will this keep current patients happy, but it will help you attract new patients, helping you grow your business. One of the most common issues is late or missed home visits.

Home Healthcare

Minority Nurse

JUNE 6, 2024

When we’re busy in our careers, it’s easy to forget that we deserve to have fun and let loose once in a while. Draw or paint a safe, peaceful, real, or imaginative place. Consider doing this practice and discussing how it felt with a trusted professional, such as a therapist.

Self-Care

Relias

MARCH 31, 2023

Reduce nurse burnout Ideally, nurses will move forward in their careers by advancing from one rewarding position to the next. Qualities of a nurse leader All nurses can benefit from developing the broad range of nursing and leadership skills that comprise excellence in nurse leadership.

Leadership

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

APRIL 30, 2024

She is a highly dedicated nursing professional with a passion for advanced education, professional development, data analytics, and quality and outcome assessment, with a clinical focus in PeriAnesthesia nursing. I know that you are a very busy person. Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Can you explain?

Mental Health

Celayix

MAY 15, 2024

Harvard Business Review’s study states that knowing where to look and using the right assessment tools are essential to finding the right candidate. The majority of healthcare recruiters (about 87%) utilize online job boards like LinkedIn, Indeed & Glassdoor as their primary recruitment source. Friendship referrals are also prevalent.

Work-Life Balance

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In fact, in a recent study published in BMC Nursing, resilience in nurses was found to reduce nurse burnout significantly. Moreover, a six-week study into nurse burnout compared the psychological state of nurses working at a level-one trauma center in Portland, Oregon.

Mental Health

Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In these days of distressing news about nursing shortages, inadequate staffing, nurse burnout and compassion fatigue, moral injury, and the ongoing corporatization of healthcare, nurses and their healthcare colleagues continue to find their pathways to solace, healing, and perseverance despite the odds.

Nursing Burnout

American Nurse

MAY 2, 2024

Application of the 3Cs outside of healthcare has demonstrated that the power of human connection made possible through trust drives business performance and manages change. Clinicians can learn about the larger context of extenuating circumstances and business reasons behind a set of decisions. 2021;8(3):5-12. Nurs Manage.

Mental Health

American Nurse

MARCH 27, 2024

They then developed opportunities for improvement based on vital feedback from the nurses who would be directly affected. All of us at American Nurse Journal extend our gratitude to every team that submitted an application. You’re all incredibly busy professionals who made the effort to tell us about the critical work you do.

Mental Health

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mark is the new director of a busy neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). When reviewing the unit’s most recent Glint Nurse Engagement scores, he notes that most staff don’t recommend the unit as an excellent place to work. Pulse on the Nation’s Nurses Survey Series: 2022 Workplace Survey. September 8, 2022.

Leadership

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-missouri-omaha-b73e167eba4987cab9e58fdc92ce0b72 Lasater KB, Aiken LH, Sloane DM, et al. Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: An observational study. Rural hospitals losing hundreds of staff to high-paid traveling nurse jobs. J Clin Nurs. doi:10.1111/jocn.12987

Self-Care

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nurse staffing The 2022 ANA Membership Assembly—the association’s governing and official voting body—approved a recommendation to include staffing ratios as an option for relieving the longstanding staffing issues, including nurse burnout, brought to light by the COVID-19 pandemic.

APRN

The Nurse Sabbatical

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I have explored teaching at my Alma Mater, starting a blog, working in a vaccine clinic, learning about business, and managing a tech company. While the pay is not as great as a clinical role, the experience is invaluable. My experience My sabbatical has truly been a blessing in disguise.

Self-Care