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ICU Nurse Saves Infant Who Stopped Breathing at the Grocery Store

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Binta Diallo was at the urgent care clinic at the local H Mart in North Carolina because her son needed a physical for football and they couldn’t get an appointment at the doctor’s office. She was in line waiting for her coffee at the in-store café when a woman started screaming, “Call 911!” Diallo explained to the woman that she didn’t have her phone because her son was using it.

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Nurse Emeritus Program Re-Engages Retired Nurses

Health Leaders | Nursing

Seasoned nurses strengthen Jefferson Health's workforce while sharing their deep expertise. Jefferson Health is re-engaging retired nurses to support its nurses and care teams as they struggle with staffing shortages. The Nurse Emeritus Program provides the opportunity for experienced, retired nurses to engage with, support, and mentor nurses, nursing teams and new leaders across Jefferson Health’s 18 hospitals in southeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.

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Nurse Emeritus Combats Staff Shortages by Keeping Retired Nurses Engaged

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Older nurses have been quitting the industry in droves due to unsafe working conditions and excess stress. They have valuable experience that can benefit younger nurses, but they take these experiences with them when they leave. Jefferson Health, which operates 18 hospitals throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, recently announced it is using the Nurse Emeritus Program to keep retired nurses engaged.

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UW Health unveils nurse apprenticeship program

Becker's Hospital Review

UW Health has developed one of the nation's first registered nurse apprenticeship programs to expand Wisconsin's pipeline of future nurses, the health system said April 20.

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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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El Camino Health is First to Use New Blood Flow Monitoring Technology

Daily Nurse

El Camino Health is the first health system in the world to use FloPatch , a new blood flow monitoring technology that will help improve sepsis patient outcomes. Courtesy El Camino Health. “Timing is crucial when caring for patients with sepsis,” says Cheryl Reinking, Chief Nursing Officer at El Camino Health. “Our nurses have seen firsthand how effective FloPatch is in monitoring the effectiveness of treatment in deteriorating patients, especially those with sepsis and low

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Emory Healthcare chief nurse exec receives lifetime achievement award

Becker's Hospital Review

The American Organization for Nursing Leadership awarded Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, chief nurse executive of Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare, the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.

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How to Become a Nurse Practitioner and Open Your Own Practice

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You have always harbored a dream of opening your own medical practice and helping your community achieve health and wellness — but medical school isn’t for you. Fortunately, you can realize your dream through the nursing career path. By becoming a nurse practitioner, you can avoid the trials and tribulations of medical school while gaining the necessary knowledge, skills and credentials to treat patients with almost the same care as a practicing physician.

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Employees Save Time Managing Their Weekly Schedules With Celayix

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Organization Table Gaming Company X (Name Confidential) Founded in 1975 it is an American-based gaming company located in Las Vegas, Nevada. They operate 28 gaming properties in ten states including Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. They are a family-owned business that has been one of the leading organizations in the gaming industry for the last 40 years.

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Career Development Strategies for New Nursing Professionals

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Nursing is a rewarding career financially and emotionally. The demand in the healthcare industry is booming, so you can imagine the growth prospects ahead. In fact, statistics show that registered nursing sits at the fourth spot on the list of in-demand professions in the US workforce today. That’s an inspiring reason to consider a career in the field.

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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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Nurse Recruiters Share Top Tips for Negotiating Salary

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Content courtesy of South University. Most nurses rank salary as the number one aspect of job satisfaction. Yet only 18% of RNs said negotiating salary is something they always do at the start of each new nursing job, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report. More than 2,500 nurses from all 50 states, working in a wide range of settings, responded to online survey questions in late 2021.

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The Impact of Technology on the Nursing Profession: How Does It Benefit Nurses?

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According to the State of The World’s Nursing 2020 Report, nursing occupies the largest chunk of the healthcare domain. It accounts for approximately 59% of medical professionals. Altogether, there are close to 27.9 million nurses, and 19.3 million of them are categorized as professional nurses. The global pandemic has posed challenges to the healthcare sector worldwide.

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Three “Fundamentals First” priorities that can differentiate a healthcare system

NRC Health

As technology-driven innovation becomes routine across the healthcare ecosystem, a human-focused approach can be a great differentiator. The post Three “Fundamentals First” priorities that can differentiate a healthcare system appeared first on NRC Health.

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6 Items Travel Nurses Need to Pack

The Gypsy Nurse

Staffmax Healthcare Staffing and Recruiting provided this article. Article was written by: Julie Hesseltine, RN, CNO, and Sr. Recruiter for Staffmax. The excitement within her had her heart beating at a rate not even three IV doses of Labetol would have been able to easily control! Yet here she was. After years of working at the bedside, she had chosen to pursue her dream.

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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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One Nurse Explains Her Personal Plan for Self-Care

Nurse.com

Content courtesy of IntelyCare. Most nurses, like me, are called to this profession to help others by providing empathetic and compassionate care. We want to make a difference and support patients during their most vulnerable moments. But to do this, we must prioritize self-care to protect our ability to function in high-stress, high-pressure situations.

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Defining Nursing Career Success on Your Terms

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Every nurse and healthcare professional has the opportunity to define career success in their own way. However, how many of us allow our nursing careers to be defined by someone else? How can we seize control of our careers and define success on our terms? Beyond a Cookie-Cutter Career At this time, your definition of success may mean earning your MSN by age 35 and your PhD or DNP by age 45.

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Two Penn Nursing Students Join the Next Cohort of World House Student Fellows

Penn Nursing

Charolette Brown and Zarah Huo join the 2023-24 cohort of World House Student Fellows.

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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy with ICG for Vulvar Cancer

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An estimated 6,470 women will be diagnosed with vulvar cancer this year in the Unites States, according to the American Cancer Society. The 5-year survival rate for this rare cancer is 71%, though it can be as high as 87% when localized or as low as 49% if it has spread to surrounding tissues or regional lymph nodes, making the metastatic nodal status a significant prognostic factor.

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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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Confronting the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: A Conversation with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD

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For U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD , three numbers capture the severity of the mental health crisis engulfing the nation’s young people: 57% — The increase in the national suicide rate among adolescents and young adults between 2007 and 2018, after remaining stable during the prior decade. 44% — The percentage of American high school students who reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless during the COVID-19 pandemic, an overall increase of 40% from 2009. 11 years — The median delay in

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Comprehensive STEMI Protocol Equitably Improves Key Care Process Metrics

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Implementation of a comprehensive protocol for management of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) similarly benefits Black and white patients, suggesting that widespread protocol adoption could help reduce traditional racial disparities in STEMI care delivery. So found a study that compared STEMI care metrics between these two groups before and up to five years after Cleveland Clinic adopted a comprehensive STEMI protocol.

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