American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Oona Tempest/KFF Health News The covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn’t doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect.
Becker's Hospital Review
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Minneapolis-based Allina Health plans to combat the national nursing shortage through various long-term initiatives, including improved orientation programs, developing programs for nurse leadership and establishing an RN residency program.
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American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Firearm deaths and injuries—whether accidental, deliberate, or in the midst of a mental health crisis—continue to rise. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, overall firearm mortality has increased by 35%, and firearm injury is now the number one killer of children between the ages of 1 and 19 years.
Amercan Journal of Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A too-common scenario. Joe opens his eyes and looks through the window of his hospital room. He has always been early to rise. Even at age 82, he can’t shake the habits he learned when he was young. “I’m woozy again,” Joe thinks as he sits up in bed. His medication sometimes makes him feel that way. Joe presses the call light so a nurse can help him to the bathroom.
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.
American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Nurses have a key role to play. Lillee Gelinas The Healthy Nurse feature this month focuses on healthcare’s role in reducing gun violence (see Healthcare’s role in reducing gun violence ). I first wrote about this important issue in 2017 in an editorial titled “Guns and nurses,” which emphasized why nurses must understand the reality of guns in today’s society and that healthcare settings require specific action planning.
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American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Focus on safety and education. Takeaways: Gun injury has moved to the number one spot on the CDC’s list for causes of death in children between ages 1 and 19 years. Nurses and providers can make a difference in reducing firearm injury in their communities. Nurses should get involved in speaking out in support of local laws that will improve safety for their patients.
Health Leaders | Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The New Jersey health system is partnering with care.ai to scale a pilot program in one med-surg unit to all of its hospitals Virtua Health is partnering with an AI company to scale a new Virtual Nursing program across the enterprise. The New Jersey-based health system is collaborating with care.ai to integrate its virtual care technology throughout Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden following a pilot program launched late last year in one med-surg unit.
Nursology
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
One goal of the nursology.net website is to provide resources for encouraging the use of nursology knowledge by all nursologists. I join others who maintain that one way to do this is to teach the content of nursology knowledge as a foundational course in the nursology curricula of undergraduate and graduate programs. We on the … Continue reading Teaching Nursology: When?
Becker's Hospital Review
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Tennessee has the most active nurse practitioners per capita of any state, while Hawaii has the fewest for the second year in a row, according to a ranking from KFF.
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
American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Dr. Stephanie J. McClellan, DNP, MBA, RN, CMSRN, NE-BC One year has passed since I assumed the role of President of our amazing nursing association. It has been a year full of progress, excitement, work of various magnitude, and together we have embarked on a new journey. Looking back on this year, it was my goal to have a renewed focus on the membership body.
Health Leaders | Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
New Jersey has embraced the Family Connects model, now in use in communities across 19 states, as a way to reduce its high rate of maternal mortality and boost the health of mothers and babies.
American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The ideas for this edition of The DNA Reporter came from so many places I’ve been and experiences I’ve had in my own professional practice and working with the Delaware Nurses Association during the past years. Some ideas came from attending the Delaware Life Conference during the past few years. I’ve learned so much about supporting the community of people who manage their lives through challenges and with support from family, friends, and agencies through the State of Delaware and private and
NRC Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Dave “e-Patient Dave” deBronkart, a cancer survivor, blogger, and healthcare activist shares his story of how a cancer diagnosis helped him become a more empowered, engaged patient, which improved his health and led to a new calling for him. The post The power of patient advocacy appeared first on NRC Health.
Speaker: Lizzie Wright - Director of Customer Success at Carrot Fertility
Employee expectations around benefits and workplace support have evolved in step with the growing need for fertility and family-forming care. As HR professionals, it is our job to ensure employees have a comprehensive understanding of the benefits our organizations offer and how they can utilize them. Before educating employees, we first need to understand the rising healthcare costs and the financial burden of fertility care.
American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
When it comes to money, it’s easy to let your emotions get the best of you – particularly during periods of personal stress or market volatility. Even seasoned investors should guard against making financial decisions based on feelings instead of facts. Here are four common investment biases that can cloud your judgment. Keeping these tendencies in mind can help you avoid making regrettable decisions regarding your hard-earned money.
Health Leaders | Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The Catholic Church's directives are often at odds with accepted medical standards, especially in areas of reproductive health. This article was published on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 in KFF Health News. By Rachana Pradhan and Hannah Recht. Nurse midwife Beverly Maldonado recalls a pregnant woman arriving at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in Maryland after her water broke.
Relias
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
To improve the quality and efficiency of its healthcare delivery, the Indian Health Service (IHS) launched the Health IT Modernization Program in 2019. The program will replace outdated IT systems with a modern, integrated, and interoperable platform that can better support the needs of IHS and its patients. While this ambitious initiative includes four major components, it also presents an opportunity to modernize healthcare training delivery, which has been shown to significantly improve healt
The Gypsy Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Medely provided this article. The travel nursing industry has gone through significant transformations in the past few years, and as we get further into 2024, we thought it was important to explore the current state of this dynamic career path. Rising demand for travel nurses Despite the end of “ the travel nurses’ gold rush ,” the travel nursing industry is still going strong and continues to be a viable option for skilled nurses, says TravelNursing.org.
Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot
As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.
Health Leaders | Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
CNOs must know how to define health work environments in order to build them. On this week’s episode of HL Shorts, we hear from Deana Sievert, Chief Nursing Officer at Ohio State Wexner University and Ross Heart Hospitals, about the qualities of a healthy work environment. Tune in to hear her insights.
American Nurse
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Christopher E. Otto, MSN, RN, CCRN Christopher E. Otto, MSN, RN, CCRN[/caption]As a product of multiple, concurrent internal and external challenges and opportunities, the Delaware Nurses Association (DNA), like the profession, finds itself in a continuous state of evolution. When I celebrated my three-year anniversary as Executive Director of this 112-year-old association and looked back upon those three years, I was even astonished by the amount of change we had undergone.
Health Leaders | Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Bayou Bend Health System announced that Robert M. Raheem, MLS, BSN, RN is its new chief nursing officer. Pillar: Nursing Link: Full story Article Source: StMaryNow.
Healthcare Law Insights blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Husch Blackwell’s False Claims Act team previously covered the results of a rare False Claims Act (FCA) trial in which a federal jury found that a surgical product distributor was liable for paying kickbacks to physicians. The federal judge overseeing that trial initially entered judgment against the distributor defendants for $487 million after trebling the government’s actual damages and then adding penalties for each kickback-tainted claim.
Health Leaders | Nursing
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Registered nurses and allied professionals at Temple University Hospital could be going on strike after negotiations with management for a new contract stalled.
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