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BCEN Names 2023 Distinguished Award Winners

Daily Nurse

Tasche, a Wisconsin ED RN specializing in pediatric emergency care whose leadership led her community hospital’s ED to be the first to be recognized as “pediatric emergency care ready” by Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services, in alignment with national pediatric emergency care standards set by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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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. A good work environment with quality leadership is high on the list of factors that determine whether nurses stay in their roles.

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Precepting: Crucial to Retaining and Helping New Nurses Succeed

Nurse.com

One thing that can ease the transition and help retain new nurses is nurse precepting, said Solimar Figueroa, PhD, RN, MHA, P-PCA, a clinical collaborator for the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement (AAPA). But precepting bedside nurses isn’t what many think and nurses who want to become preceptors should learn how to properly do it.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Coates works at a mental health crisis center as a senior professional evaluation nurse, preceptor to new nurses, Nursing Journal Club facilitator, and nursing department trainer for new staff. Many attributes that contribute to successful nursing leadership can be learned and developed over time.

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How To Become a Nurse Leader

Relias

Advantages of leadership roles — besides a higher salary and prestige — are a greater ability to make a difference within their healthcare organization, positive impact on those they lead, and ultimately, more power to improve patient outcomes. Leadership is part of every nursing role — not just officially recognized nurse leader roles.

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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. A good work environment with quality leadership is high on the list of factors that determine whether nurses stay in their roles.

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Patient care assistant training

American Nurse

As a result, unit educators had to supplement onboarding of new-to-healthcare PCAs with impromptu training, including taking vital signs, using hospital equipment, conducting blood sugar testing, collecting specimens, and performing ECGs. In addition, class supplies, stocked by the simulation team, are the same as those used on the units.