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In Healthcare and Nursing, Relationships Matter

Daily Nurse

Let’s face it: someday, you may need a professional reference, an introduction to a key individual at a facility you’re interested in, some priceless career advice, a mentor, or maybe someone to serve as your preceptor during your nurse practitioner program.

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Effective clinical learning for nursing students

American Nurse

The challenge A longstanding shortage of nursing school faculty and a reliance on new graduate nurses to serve as preceptors create challenges to properly preparing nursing students for a demanding role that requires excellent critical thinking skills. Clinical and lab assignments vary from 4- or 6-hour experiences to 12-hour shifts.

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3 Health Systems Where Tech is Transforming Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

These three stories from HealthLeaders illustrate how nurses at hospitals and health systems around the country are embracing the advancements that technology and AI can provide: Singing River Health System The challenge to effectively train nurses without enough preceptors led Singing River Health System to turn to technology to get the job done.

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

Relias

Organizations with a nurse residency program provide new nurses with additional support while also engaging experienced nurses as preceptors — fostering new connections and a healthy, collaborative culture. In addition to improving nurse retention, nurse residency programs instill a sense of community and confidence in new nurses.

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Essential Qualities and Characteristics of a Good Nurse

Relias

2 – Excellent communication skills Strong communication skills are an important nurse characteristic. Good nurses rely on the ability to effectively communicate with other nurses, physicians, and clinicians in other units and with patients and their families.

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Clinical Education – whose job is it anyway?

The Nurse Break

Numerous pieces of literature support the need for ongoing professional development and the positive impact that education has on quality, safety and culture (IOM, 1999; Walton & Elliot; 2006; Wu & Busch, 2019; Mlambo et al, 2021). Patient safety: A new basic science for professional education.

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Memorial Hermann Health System’s Innovative Approach To Reimagining a Culture of Excellence

Relias

Adapting communications to meet urgent needs. Communication is always a key priority in a high reliability-focused organization. A few key highlights that Memorial Hermann utilized as part of their communication strategy included: Ensuring open and transparent communication. Developing employee resource groups (ERGs).