Health Leaders | Nursing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Retired nurses offer coaching and mentoring to Novant Health's novice nurses to solve retention challenges. With nearly one-third of overwhelmed novice nurses quitting in their first year nationwide, Amy Akers, RN, BSN, MBA, NEA-BC , vice president and chief nurse executive at Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center, is working to buck that trend by bringing retired RNs back to the floor through its Emeritus Nursing Program to help inexperienced nurses succeed and stay.

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Amercan Journal of Nursing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Nursing students are known to have high stress levels during their nursing programs. While many researchers have explored different coping mechanisms to help nursing students cope with their stress and anxiety, not many have looked at animal interventions. I am a huge fan of animal interventions after seeing their positive effects on patients (and staff) while I was working bedside in the hospital.

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Long Term Care Retirement Nurse Educator Education 105

Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Any nurse entering the field, no matter how prepared or well trained, will do their best to learn about the realities of caring for others on the job. When I started working as a nurse back in the 1970s, I had no idea that in a few years, I would find myself on the frontlines of an epidemic that would irrevocably change and touch all our lives while also changing the career trajectories for a great number of people in healthcare.

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Becker's Hospital Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between January 2022 and July 2023, nurses in Massachusetts filed 12,600 unsafe staffing reports, according to a Sept. 18 news release from the state's nursing association.

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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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Relias

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The increasing rates of suicide in the United States has been an issue for decades. As with many mental health conditions, American society has unfortunately applied stigma to suicide and those coping with suicidal ideation. To overcome the U.S. mental health crisis and decrease the yearly rates of suicide, we must address these stigmas. What is suicide stigma?

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Mental Health Self-Care Education 98

Consult QD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As a neurosurgeon specializing in skull base and cerebrovascular disorders, Varun Kshettry, MD , sees plenty of dramatic clinical presentations. Even so, one of his other specialty interests — trigeminal neuralgia — remains particularly striking to him. “An episode is like getting electrocuted in the face,” he says. “So being able to investigate and help some of these patients get out of that state of pain can be very rewarding and fascinating.

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Becker's Hospital Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

National Nurses United's recent scrutiny over the CDC's proposed masking standards in hospitals is the latest example of the two entities not seeing eye to eye on infection control.

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Consult QD

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Nurse Essentials · Caring for Caregivers: How Healthcare Organizations Can Fully Support their Nurses Three years ago, Cleveland Clinic appointed Kelly Hancock, DNP, RN, NE-BC, FAAN as its first-ever chief caregiver officer to ensure that the health system was taking care of its caregivers so they could provide the best care for patients. That goes beyond offering competitive salaries and benefits.

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Self-Care Retirement Best Practices Education 81

Penn Medicine News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Researchers at Penn Medicine are studying conversational AI tools like ChatGPT to predict their future potential and understand how they can assist in diagnosis and guiding patients.

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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

The Gypsy Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This article was provided by Cross Country Nurse s. When you picture yourself traveling, what is the first image that comes to mind? If you’re visualizing yourself on a toasty beach…for just a moment, imagine instead what it would be like to take a travel nurse assignment in a cooler region. Can you see yourself: Taking in expansive views of snow-capped mountains as you ride up a ski lift in Utah?

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Travel Nursing Business 59

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As the population in the United States ages, healthy aging is going to become a concern for a growing segment of people and the healthcare teams that care for them. September’s Healthy Aging Month designation brings an awareness for nurses who want to offer appropriate care for their aging patients and who also want to be mindful of healthy aging practices for their own health.

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Holistic Care Promotion Education 59

Nursing Times

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Read about the Amin Abdullah RCN Foundation Grant, a scheme that makes annual awards to nurse-led wellbeing projects of up to £1,000.

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CynaMed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

2 minute read Working in the medical field can be highly demanding. For med tech jobs, this often means working around the clock to support the needs of the medical field. However, alternative jobs are on the rise for many med techs in the industry. In fact, working as a med tech shouldn’t have to be all work and no play. You should be able to reap the reward of your profession while finding simultaneous balance.

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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.

Education

Nursing Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In Labor's first NSW budget, treasurer Daniel Mookhey makes $13 billion in cuts and savings, and increases a tax on big multinationals to fund a promised $3.6 billion in pay rises for public sector workers such as nurses and teachers. In his speech, Mr Mookhey emphasised the importance of having a properly functioning health system. "If we want a world-class health system, we have to train, recruit and retain enough health workers to staff our hospitals," he said during his speech.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As global mental health issues continue to rise, so does the dire need for expert healthcare practitioners. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), “more than 150 million people live in federally designated mental health professional shortage areas.” Mental Health Affairs reports that with a significant shortage of psychiatric doctors, especially in rural and underserved areas, there’s a critical need for qualified professionals who are well-equipped to provide timely a

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Mental Health Nurse Practitioner APRN Holistic Care 52

Nursing Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Australians are living longer than ever. But these extra years of life come with higher rates of long-term and complex conditions and greater health care needs. The government wants to improve Australians’ access to primary care services. These services would usually be delivered by a GP. But as part of this change, a new review is exploring how other health professionals could expand their current scope of work to meet growing needs.

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Registered Nursing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The journey from a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to a Registered Nurse (RN) represents a significant step in a healthcare professional’s career. However, the financial aspect of advancing education can be a concern for many. Fortunately, several LPN to RN programs across the United States offer an excellent education without the burden of exorbitant tuition fees.

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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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Nursing Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Australia’s largest state economy is bracing for pain after being warned that “tough choices” need to be made ahead of the NSW state budget. When Treasurer Daniel Mookhey hands down his first budget this afternoon, he is expected to lay bare the dire state of the state’s finances. Facing a mountain of increasing state debt, soaring living costs and ailing essential services, he will cut existing voucher programs for families and spend more on retaining key worker positions.

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SelfCare for HealthCare

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

An estimated 40% of all cancer cases could be avoided if more people lived healthier lives, according to Cancer Research UK. Taking steps like eating a healthier diet, being more active, maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding sunburn, and not smoking are beneficial. A balanced diet rich in vegetables, fruit, whole grains, and beans and lentils can lower the risk of several different cancers.

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Nursing Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Last Tuesday, the NSW government announced that healthcare students willing to make a five-year commitment to the state's public health system will receive $4,000 scholarships in an effort to boost the number of health workers in the public system. New enrolments can apply for the scholarship from 1 January 2024, along with existing students who will receive a one-off payment of $8,000 and graduating students who can apply for the subsidy to be paid when they graduate.

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Post University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Infection Control Nurses Have a Responsibility to Educate Patients and Staff Infection control nurses play a critical role in the prevention and management of healthcare-associated infections. Typically, these nurses work within hospitals and in other healthcare settings to implement infection control policies, provide relevant training to healthcare personnel, and encourage best practices to minimize the spread of infection.

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Education Best Practices Long Term Care Promotion 52

Nursing Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Dr Odette Best, former nurse and pro-vice chancellor of First Nations education and research at the Australian College of Nursing (ACN), told Nursing Review improving unequal healthcare starts with addressing individual bias and racism head on. "Racism is alive and well. That's the reality. our research has looked at racism experienced by both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and patients.

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Holistic Care Professional Development Education Nurse Educator 52

Symplr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2004, President Bush set a goal for every American to have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014. The goal was that better and safer care could be delivered through more complete knowledge of a patient that was accessible in a secure repository. The 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act spurred a wave of both new and replacement EHR purchases in the industry.

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Licensing 52

Nursing Inquiry

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Abstract Traditional health sciences (including nursing) paradigms, conceptual models, and theories have relied heavily upon notions of the ‘person’ or ‘patient’ that are deeply rooted in humanistic principles. Our intention here, as a collective academic assemblage, is to question taken-for-granted definitions and assumptions of the ‘person’ from a critical posthumanist perspective.

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American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The pain from a heart attack is so bad that – if you can imagine – it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of pain begins before their first birthday and continues intermittently for a lifetime. Too often these people receive inadequate help managing their pain, a critical health disparity that persists 113 years after sickle cell disease was identified.

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