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Cultivating Year-Round LGBTQ+ Affirming Care

Diversity Nursing

Pride Month in June is a vibrant and essential time for celebration, advocacy, and raising awareness for the LGBTQ+ community. We see rainbow flags adorning hospitals, clinics, and communities, and it's a wonderful display of solidarity. But as Nurses, our commitment to providing safe, respectful, and affirming care for our LGBTQ+ patients must extend far beyond a single month.

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Why human flourishing matters in nursing

American Nurse

In January, the American Nurses Association (ANA) unveiled the revised Code of Ethics for Nurses , widely regarded as the gold standard for the future of nursing practice. Updated once each decade, the Code serves as a moral compass for the profession, evolving alongside the cultural, scientific, sociopolitical, and ethical shifts shaping modern healthcare.

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Steering Through the Storm: Leading in Uncertainty

Inspire Nurse Leaders

Introduction Uncertainty isn’t just a backdrop to contemporary leadership, it’s the headline. In every conversation I have with healthcare leaders, it’s clear: change is constant, but it’s the unpredictability of that change that feels most destabilizing. We’re navigating a relentless wave of disruption—from global health crises and regulatory shifts to workforce upheaval, economic pressure, and the rapid evolution of AI.

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From Paralyzed Patient to Spinal Cord Nurse: Rachel Stewart, BSN, RN, Turns Trauma into Triumph

Daily Nurse

In nursing, empathy is essential—but for Rachel Stewart, BSN, RN, empathy comes with a lived perspective that few can match. In 2020, Stewart, a nursing student preparing for finals, was suddenly faced with an unexpected medical crisis that changed her life in an instant. Rushed to the hospital with internal bleeding and a collapsed lung, she was diagnosed with a massive spinal nerve tumor that had invaded her lung and spine.

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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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Retreat to Return

Diane Sieg

Summer is a season most of us look forward to all year with more outside time for gardening, barbecues, picnics, baseball games and concerts. And, this increased activity can feel overwhelming in our already very full lives. Instead of trying to squeeze it all in, we need to take a step back and slow down to to fully experience it. We need to retreat to return.

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HL Shorts: Boosting Retention with Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Virtual nursing can provide multiple kinds of support to the bedside nurse that can help with retention, says this nurse leader. On this episode of HL Shorts, we hear from Emily Warr , system administrator for the Center for Telehealth at MUSC Health , about how virtual nursing can boost nurse retention in health systems. Tune in to hear her insights.

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UPHS nurses and techs rally for fair contracts in Marquette

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurses and medical technologists at U.P. Health System - Marquette want fair contracts. The health care workers rallied at Harlow Park on Monday. This comes as unions continue contract negotiations with hospital administration.

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What It’s Really Like to Be a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner

FreshRN

Thinking about becoming a women’s health nurse practitioner? Learn what WHNPs actually do, where they work, what to expect from online degree programs, and how to choose the right path for your goals. The post What It’s Really Like to Be a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner appeared first on FRESHRN.

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NRC Health Receives 2025 CSO Award for Leadership in Cybersecurity and Healthcare Data Protection

NRC Health

NRC Health is proud to announce we have been named a 2025 CSO Award winner, joining an elite group of organizations recognized for excellence in cybersecurity, information risk management, and strategic innovation. The post NRC Health Receives 2025 CSO Award for Leadership in Cybersecurity and Healthcare Data Protection appeared first on NRC Health.

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‘My focus was to put rest at the centre of my life’

Nursing Times

Penny Tremayne argues that we need to reflect on what rest means to our patients – and to ourselves

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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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Illuminating Gaps in Perinatal Palliative Care Evidence Amidst Abortion Restrictions

Penn Nursing

A new review published in Health Affairs Scholar highlights significant limitations in the existing evidence base for perinatal palliative care (PPC) in the United States, raising concerns about its capacity to adequately support a growing, vulnerable patient population increasingly directed towards it due to abortion restrictions.

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Texas’ HB3817: What Nurses Need to Know About the Latest Anti-Trans Legislation

Nursology

Guest Contributors: Kendrick T. Clack and Jasmine Perkins A new wave of anti-trans legislation is sweeping across the United States, and Texas is leading the charge. One of the most alarming bills under consideration is House Bill 3817 (HB3817), which seeks to make “gender identity fraud” a state jail felony.

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Sexuality and gender identity: Know the basics for equitable patient care

American Nurse

In 2008, my partner gave birth to our son, Sebastian, in a mid-sized Midwestern hospital after multiple expensive rounds of artificial insemination. Her labor began 6 weeks early, and due to a sudden and dangerous spike in blood pressure paired with fetal heart rate deceleration, she required an emergency C-section. Thankfully, they both made it through, but what followed in the postpartum setting revealed how deeply unprepared the healthcare team was to care for a lesbian family.