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Planning a Graceful Exit

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN To economize, many health systems are eliminating nursing leadership roles, impacting numerous loyal, hard-working nurse leaders. How do you leave a difficult job situation without conveying anger? I recently talked with a leader who found herself in this situation. She understood that the decision was not personal […] The post Planning a Graceful Exit appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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'Creative' nurse shifts gain traction at Mercy Health hospital

Becker's Hospital Review

At Mercy Health-St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio, gone are the traditional scheduling demands for nurses. Instead, nurses get "creative shifts" that fit their needs, Cory Werts, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer for the Lima market, told Becker's.

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Plans for £30m investment to tackle fitness to practise backlog

Nursing Times

The UK nursing regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, has put forward a draft plan to make the biggest investment in fitness to practise (FtP) in a decade, in an effort to process decisions safely but more quickly.

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Recognizing GI Nurses and Associates’ Work

Minority Nurse

This week honors GI Nurses and Associates Week , the annual tribute to GI nurses that the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA) has celebrated for more than a decade. Gastroenterology (GI) nurses treat and often diagnose patients who have symptoms and conditions related to the entire digestive tract. The spectrum of GI symptoms is nuanced and can have a big impact on quality of life for patients, so GI nurses listen carefully to help patients most effectively.

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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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Meet Kate Veenstra: From Bedside Nurse to Top Spot at UM Health-West

Daily Nurse

Kate Veenstra, DNP, MSN, RN, CNL, CMSRN, ACM, NEA-BC, was recently appointed as the new chief nursing officer at the University of Michigan Health-West. Her more than 18 years of experience also tells quite a story. Veenstra started as a bedside nurse at the hospital in 2006 and has held many roles, from associate chief nursing officer to the most recent interim chief nursing officer.

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Involving Nurses in Hospital Staffing Decision-Making

Amercan Journal of Nursing

A qualitative study that looks at the experiences of nurses who have served on staffing committees. When I am faced with challenging situations and issues that involve multiple stakeholders, I seek guidance or information from others to make the most informed decisions. This is a practice many health professionals and researchers emulate, and it makes sense to do this, yet when it comes to the topic of nurse staffing in hospital settings, nurses are not usually involved in the process.

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California Nurse Practitioner Student and Cardiac Nurse Carries on Her Mother’s Legacy

Post University

As the daughter of a missionary, Igng Vildor was inspired by her mother from a young age. “My mom was a nurse who worked primarily with older patients and often went on medical mission trips to impoverished countries,” she recalls. “She brought my four siblings and I with her on those trips, and although we didn’t have much, that showed us how fortunate we were compared to so many.

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How to Make Scheduling Easier

Celayix

Schedulers, we feel your pain! Creating employee schedules is complex, time-consuming, and sometimes completely overwhelming. There is a lot to consider when making the perfect schedule—for example, employee qualifications , time off requests, communication, and finding last-minute substitutes. However, having a great schedule in place helps you to expand your business and run it more efficiently.

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Three reasons to join Providence as a clinic RN

Providence

Clinic-based nurses are critical to providing excellent preventative, urgent and outpatient care in the communities we serve. Interested in joining us as a clinic RN? We spoke with Mill Creek Pediatric RN Cindy about three reasons she loves coming to work at a Providence clinic. 1. Providence clinics are welcoming to all.

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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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Episode 35: Addressing Chronic Pain and Pain Management in Older Women

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

In recognition of Women’s History Month, we’re discussing chronic pain and pain management in older women. Chronic pain is something that many older adults deal with, particularly women and people of color. Guest Janiece Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, dedicates her research to addressing the social determinants… The post Episode 35: Addressing Chronic Pain and Pain Management in Older Women appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Ma

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Hospital Designs With Staff Well Being In Mind

Diversity Nursing

Working in the healthcare field is both demanding and stressful. Nurses often face challenges like adjusting to irregular hours, taking on extra shifts, and coping with the emotional toll of losing patients. While healthcare professionals are skilled at problem-solving, healing, and managing pressure, they are not immune to the lasting impact of stress and trauma.

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Are the Robots Coming for My Nursing Job? 

Minority Nurse

Throughout history, new technologies have always sparked legitimate fears that some jobs will be radically changed or eliminated due to innovation. The telegraph, the telephone, the tractor, the steam engine, the internet, robotics, artificial intelligence — each of these developments has brought some form of change in the job market, the viability of particular professions and skills, and how things get done.

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Canadian Nurse Practitioner Strives to Make a Difference with DNP – Educational Leadership Specialization

Post University

For Norma Hilsmann, nursing was something of a family business. “My mom and both brothers were nurses, but I was a little bit of a rebel and planned to do something else,” says Norma, who grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia. That ‘something else’ was becoming a violinist, and Norma started college at the University of British Columbia as a music major.

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Maximizing Your Benefits Strategy: Reframing the Way We View Fertility

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.

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Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout

Health Leaders | Nursing

A new study suggests that the nursing shortage is easing, but that doesn’t mean the health care system can stop worrying about retaining new and experienced clinicians.

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A Winding Journey: North Carolina Woman Finds Motivation After Earning a BSN

Post University

When Felicia Miley was a teenager growing up in Paris, France, she followed one of the typical upper-secondary pathways for French students and earned a vocational baccalaureate degree. She joined a major bank as an executive secretary, but by age 25, she felt compelled to do something bold: move to the United States. She explored ways she could do so and discovered the U.S.

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Oklahoma Senate passes bill allowing nurse practitioners to prescribe drugs without doctor supervision

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse practitioners could soon be able to prescribe drugs in Oklahoma without a doctor's supervision.

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Finding meaning in complex care nursing in a hospital setting

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract This study explores the experiences of nurses that provide ‘complex’, generalist healthcare in hospital settings. Complex care is described as care for patients experiencing acute issues additional to multimorbidity, ageing or psychosocial complexity. Nurses are the largest professional group of frontline healthcare workers and patients experiencing chronic conditions are overrepresented in acute care settings.

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Leveling the Playing Field: How HR Can Equitably Improve Health Outcomes Through Fertility Benefits

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.

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Infographic: Cost Containment

Health Leaders | Nursing

As healthcare costs rise, CNOs must brainstorm ways to lower them. Cost containment is an issue throughout all of healthcare, and because of the nursing shortage, keeping costs down has become an even more difficult task. To combat this, CNOs need to focus on nurse retention and creating the right work environment where nurses will want to spend their entire careers.