Tue.Aug 05, 2025

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HL Shorts: How Can CNOs Rebuild Trust With Nurses?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Trust is felt when staff understand that the senior leadership has their back and are responding to their needs and concerns, 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 how CNOs can reengage the workforce by fostering trust between nurses and leadership. Tune in to hear his insights.

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Nursing Layoffs: How to Stay Calm, Reclaim Your Confidence, and Find Your Next Job

Minority Nurse

If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been laid off from your nursing job or are worried about a future layoff, and are anxious about it. Layoffs can be stressful when they’re unexpected. Unlike being fired, layoffs can come for reasons out of your control, but it’s still a frustrating experience to go through, especially when you know that the U.S. is under a nursing shortage.

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Hospitals address shortage with virtual nurses

Health Leaders | Nursing

For all the debate about artificial intelligence in health care, one quietly transformative shift is taking place not through machines, but through video calls. A growing number of U.S. hospitals are now using virtual nurses to handle admissions and discharges remotely. The promise? Relief for burnt-out bedside nurses, better care coordination and fewer patients bouncing back to the hospital within weeks.

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FROM THE NNA PRESIDENT 

American Nurse

Greetings to all Nebraska Nurses! Membership Assembly-Washington, D.C.-June 26-28, 2025 Linda Hardy, PhD, RN, CNE, CTNA As I write this article, we are preparing to attend Membership Assembly (MA). I will be accompanied by President Elect Blake Smith, Omaha and Membership Representative Todd Hovey, McCook. Thursday, June 26th is Hill Day when hundreds of nurses descend on our nation’s capital to advocate for nurses with our representatives.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

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.

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New Study: Significant Racial Discordance Between Nurses and Patients in Black-Serving Hospitals

Penn Nursing

A new Penn Nursing Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) study reveals a significant underrepresentation of Black nurses compared to the Black patient populations they serve, particularly in hospitals that care for a higher proportion of Black patients. The study – led Eileen T. Lake, PhD, RN, FAAN , the Edith Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, and CHOPR Associate Director – is set to be published in Nursing Research.

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Nurse Spotlight: Healthcare Documentation

American Nurse

This is sponsored content and is supplied by Nurses Service Organization. The content has been reviewed by our HCM internal editorial staff but is not peer-reviewed. NURSE LEGAL CASE STUDY: ABSENCE OF DOCUMENTATION IN VIOLATION OF NURSING STANDARD OF CARE The patient was admitted to a rehabilitation facility after undergoing a right hip arthroplasty.

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Preparing for a LifeQuake: Navigating Care in a Complicated System (Part Four)

Nurses Advocates

I hope you have been enjoying this series. I also hope you have gained valuable insights into the importance of taking action in preparing for an event that leaves you and your family wondering how we got here and how we’ll manage to move forward. I recently saw the above image about a LifeQuake and thought it described the feeling I had when I was diagnosed with a Brain Tumor in 2014.

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Explore Economical LPN-to-RN Programs Near Long Beach, California

Registered Nursing

Long Beach, California—home to one of the largest ports in the United States and a vibrant, diverse population—is also a hub for healthcare education in Southern California. For licensed vocational nurses (LVNs, California's equivalent to LPNs) seeking to become registered nurses (RNs), this coastal city offers practical, affordable, and flexible educational pathways.

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Empowering Nurses Through Nonprofit Board Leadership

American Nurse

Holly Sak serves as Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Nursing at Creighton University. Dr. Sak serves as a non-profit consultant, with experience in 501(c)3 leadership and capacity building. Have you considered joining a nonprofit board? Nurses possess an exceptional capacity for service leadership. Nebraska is uniquely nonprofit dense, with more than 15,000 tax-exempt and 501(c)(3) not-for-profit agencies statewide consisting of assets exceeding $82 billion (CauseIQ, 2024).

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Nurses union advances at UPMC’s Magee-Womens Hospital

Health Leaders | Nursing

About 1,000 nurses at Magee-Womens Hospital are set to decide whether they’d like to be represented by SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania later this month. The organizing effort at one of the region’s leading labor and delivery centers is the latest in a growing labor movement among health care professionals in Pennsylvania. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board set voting dates for Aug. 19 and 23 for the 1,000 nurses at Magee.

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

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.

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Protect yourself from secret recording

American Nurse

This is sponsored content and is supplied by Nurses Service Organization. The content has been reviewed by our HCM internal editorial staff but is not peer-reviewed. A NURSE ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERS a recording of himself giving patient care posted on the Facebook page of a patient’s family member. Another nurse receives a notice that a State Board of Nursing complaint has been filed against her for disparaging comments she made about a patient without knowing that the patient was recording her on

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Nurses Abroad: Finding Rest and Purpose in Senior Care

Daily Nurse

Nurses are built differently. Most people dream of lounging on a beach and switching off completely—but for some nurses out there, the idea of doing nothing can feel strangely uncomfortable. For them, there’s a rush in the routine, an almost addictive rhythm in the nonstop nature of caring, solving, fixing, and responding—especially for those who are used to the chaos of hospitals and emergency rooms.

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AI Ain’t Never Been a Nurse: On AI and the 2025 Revision of the Code of Ethics for Nurses

Nursology

View all posts by Marsha FowlerBook “Nursing Ethics, 1880s to the Present: An Anthology of Lost Wisdom and Identity” A nurse friend and colleague recently contacted me to tell me of an interaction she had with a colleague of hers.

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‘The government must focus on compassion and curiosity’

Nursing Times

Helené Donnelly argues that the government must remember to focus on compassion and curiosity as it seeks to patient safety reform.

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Why Menopause Should Matter to Today’s Employers

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

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FROM THE NNA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

American Nurse

Kim Houtwed, MBA, BSN, RN Springtime is more than just a change in seasons—it is a powerful symbol of renewal, hope, and growth. After the stillness of winter, spring arrives with a quiet, persistent energy that stirs both nature and the human spirit. One of spring’s most remarkable powers is its ability to inspire transformation. The NNA embraces nursing recognition each spring.

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Scaling Personalized Client Success in a Growing Healthcare Market

Ringo

Learn how smart systems and human connection drive high-touch support at scale in a growing healthcare market.

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Woman’s death sparks fresh warning over misuse of nurse title

Nursing Times

The death of a 23-year-old woman who declined cancer treatment, allegedly on the advice of her conspiracy theorist ex-nurse mother, is proof of the need to legally protect the title of “nurse”, campaigners, and her brother, have said.