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Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios

Emerging RN Leader

Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Like many of you, I watch the news about the push for mandated staffing ratios. Nurse advocates confidently tell legislators that with 5.2 licensed nurses (if that number is even accurate), there are more than enough nurses to staff the US health system. The only reason they are […] The post Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Gun Violence in America Has Global Impact

The Relentless School Nurse

In my previous blog post , I shared my transformational experience attending the 2023 School Nurse International Conference, hosted by Northeastern University School Health Academy in Boston. Now, in this follow-up post, I want to reflect on my presentation titled “A Public Health Approach to Ending Gun Violence Against Children: Experiences from a US School Nurse’s Office.” The response from the participants was eye-opening, revealing how the impact of gun violence in America extend

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A List Of Rules For Nurses… From 1887

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Whether you’re a new nurse or a been around for a while, it’s always intriguing to take a look back at the history of the nursing profession. This list illuminates the day-to-day tasks and regulations pertaining to the life of a nurse in 1887—before routine charting was even invented. 1887 Nursing Job Description In addition to caring for your 50 patients, each bedside nurse will follow these regulations: 1.

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Nurses' ways of talking about their experiences of (in)justice in healthcare organizations: Locating the use of language as a means of analysis

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Nurses have their own ways of talking about their experiences of injustice in healthcare organizations. The aim of this article is to describe how nurses talk about their work-life experiences and discuss the discursive effects that arise from nurses' use of language regarding their political agency. To this end, we present the findings garnered from a study focused on exploring how nurses deploy their political agency to project their idea of social and political justice in public heal

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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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Looking for a New Career: Ex-Nurses Talk About What They Did Next

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Nursing isn’t for everyone. Some people just aren’t built to take care of other people when they’re at their worst. The long hours and added stress of the COVID-19 pandemic has also led to a global nursing exodus. Providers of all specialties are quitting in droves to pursue careers in other fields. One person recently shared their feelings about their job on Reddit.