Fri.Aug 11, 2023

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The Craziest Medical Bills

Scrubs

Total healthcare spending in the U.S. hit $3.5 trillion in 2017 and about 32% of the total, or $1.1 trillion, was spent on hospital services. Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. Costs range widely from facility to facility, but one thing remains clear: Getting care isn’t cheap.

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Travel Rates Explained

The Gypsy Nurse

Staffmax Healthcare Staffing and Recruiting provided this article. Article was written by: Julie Hesseltine, RN, CNO, and Sr. Recruiter for Staffmax. How many ways have you seen rates posted online by different companies? The answer to this question is most likely; “A lot!”. Today, it is time to take an in-depth look at the rates and what they mean.

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The Leadership Journey in Nursing (Podcast)

Consult QD

Nurse Essentials · The Leadership Path: How to Decide if a Nursing Leader Position Is Right for You Most nurses enter the profession envisioning a career in patient care. But there is an array of impactful and fulfilling leadership roles, even for nurses who never considered leaving the bedside. Perhaps no one knows this as well as Kelly Hancock, DNP, RN, NE-BC, FAAN , Cleveland Clinic’s chief caregiver officer, who began her career as a clinical nurse on a cardiothoracic step-down unit and neve

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How to Support a Changing Nursing Workforce

Symplr

Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare industry, providing critical patient care in every care setting. As a nurse and an informaticist, I witness the burnout every day and hospitals struggling with workforce shortages, and the repercussions pervasive to healthcare in 2023. I recently joined a panel of nursing and healthcare leaders at the Health 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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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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A New Guide to the Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis

Consult QD

While the differential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is extremely broad, not all possibilities need to be considered for every patient who presents with symptoms suspicious of the disease. Instead, clinicians must be vigilant to clinical, laboratory and imaging “red flags” of conditions that mimic MS to guide the investigation. So urges the Multiple Sclerosis Differential Diagnosis Consortium, an international group organized by the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multipl

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ENA Calls for Assault Weapons Ban, Firearms Purchase Age Increase

Daily Nurse

Whether in a mass shooting, urban violence, self-harm, or intimate partner violence, the damage caused by firearms is something emergency nurses know firsthand – they see it and experience their trauma every day while simply trying to save the lives of those injured by a firearm. As the leading voice for emergency nurses, the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) has a vested interest in the impact of firearms violence because of its direct relationship to injury prevention, patient care, and the h

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Life of an MEN Student Semester 5 Part 1

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

See what a typical day is like for a student in our Masters Entry Into Nursing program. Unlike traditional programs, the Entry into Nursing program emphasizes leadership, global impact, quality and safety, and evidence-based interprofessional education. Our students learn from a framework that integrates the humanities, public health, genetics, and physical and organizational sciences into… The post Life of an MEN Student Semester 5 Part 1 appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Technology: A metaparadigm concept of nursing

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Undoubtedly, technology continues to permeate the world at an unprecedented pace. The discipline of nursing is not alien to this phenomenon as nurses continue to employ various technological objects and applications in clinical practice, education, administration and research. Despite the centrality of technology in nursing, it has not been recognised as a metaparadigm domain of interest in the discipline of nursing.

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Nursing school taps VR for mass casualty training

Becker's Hospital Review

Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, is using virtual reality to teach nursing students how to respond during mass-casualty situations, the Standard-Examiner reported Aug. 10.

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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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What Are the Highest-Paid CNA Specializations?

Registered Nursing

What Determines a CNA Salary? There are many variables that can factor into how much you will make as a CNA. Typically, these are a combination of: Minimum wage Education Experience Certifications and licensure The level of need for CNAs in the area where you’ll be servicing Apart from these variables, CNAs can expect a much higher salary within the more specialized areas of nursing.

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Video: HealthLeaders Weekly Wrap

Health Leaders | Nursing

The Weekly Wrap, HealthLeaders' video series, brings you a quick look at what we're covering around the healthcare industry. New episodes will be released each Friday. Subscribe now to HealthLeaders YouTube channel to catch all the episodes. Don’t miss out!

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Emergency Relief Fund for Wildfires in Hawaii

American Medical Compliance

Wildfires in Hawaii on the island of Maui, driven by strong winds from an. offshore hurricanes, continue to damage the Hawaiian landscape and disrupt the lives of everyone on the island. Dozens of lives have been lost and even more have been injured. Hundreds of buildings and businesses were destroyed as a result of the fire. Many of the island’s residents have nowhere to go and tourist evacuations are taking place.

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Most of $100M Pledge to Grow the Nursing Workforce Will Fund APRN Training

Health Leaders | Nursing

The investment is intended to 'double down' on increasing demand for RNs, NPs, nurse midwives, and nurse faculty. Most of the $100 million committed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to grow the nation’s nursing workforce will go toward building advanced practice nurses (APRNs). HRSA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced Thursday the investment to “double down” on the increasing demand for RNs, nurse practitioners (NPs), certifie

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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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Viewpoint: Why these are the happiest nurse positions

Becker's Hospital Review

Outpatient case managers and office nurses are some of the happiest in the field, according to an article written by Donna Reese, MSN, RN, and published by Nursing Process.

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The Importance Of Self-Scheduling In Workforce Management

Celayix

Celayix employee schedu ling software offers multiple ways to automate and improve your scheduling processes. One of the most used methods we offer is self-scheduling , which we break down below in our self-scheduling infographic! Take a look at how it works, as well as how it can benefit your organization! Self-scheduling is proven to benefit both managers and employees as management can automate their shift allocation while employees are empowered to choose the shifts that they want- creatin

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50 best work-from-home jobs for nurses

Becker's Hospital Review

Nursing Process found 50 work-from-home jobs for nurses with salaries that range from $60,000 to $116,000.

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