Wed.Jul 05, 2023

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Do You Worry About Getting Audited?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Just thinking about getting audited puts some practice owners in a state of panic. Why would someone audit me? What could they be looking for? What if they find something? What if I made a mistake? What could happen to my practice? How can I prepare for an audit? These might be just some of the thoughts that worry them. So… best to meet the medical audit monster head-on and look it squarely in the eye.

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Ten Things I Know for Sure About Nursing Leadership

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN We are in turbulent times in healthcare. Planning in nursing leadership today can be challenging. As one of my nurse leader colleagues recently told me – I keep learning that so much of what we have done in the past won’t work in the future. The world […] The post Ten Things I Know for Sure About Nursing Leadership appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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“Visions” in ANS – A Unitary Theory of Healing Through Touch

Advances in Nursing Science

The current issue of ANS includes the new ANS section featuring works focused on the scholarship of Rogerian Nursing Science. This section is called “Visions,” the title of the Rogerian Nursing Society journal.

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New Study Highlights Potential Benefits of Ultrasound-Guided Prostate SBRT

Consult QD

Research led by a team of Cleveland Clinic experts demonstrates the feasibility and clinical efficiency of ultrasound-guided prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy using a 4D transperineal ultrasound system. These findings , which were recently published in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics , suggest that real-time intra-fraction motion management could help improve delivery accuracy for prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy.

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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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8 Tips for Nurse Leaders to Reduce Conflict

Post University

When people come together to work in a large environment, like a healthcare organization, conflicts will develop. Conflict in nursing can be particularly problematic, however, because it can have a direct impact on patient outcomes. If you are in a position of leadership in the healthcare and nursing fields, you need to understand what causes conflict and how to avoid it.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession. Coates works at a mental health crisis center as a senior professional evaluation nurse, preceptor to new nurses, Nursing Journal Club facilitator, and nursing department trainer for new staff.

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Just Getting Started: Alum Fernando Mena-Carrasco Back for PhD

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

Fernando Mena-Carrasco already possesses the qualifications to lead a health center, the experience and the degrees (MSN ’18, BSN ’15) to teach at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the drive to make an impact in community and mental health nursing. That would be a heck of a launchpad for most folks. Mena-Carrasco aims even… The post Just Getting Started: Alum Fernando Mena-Carrasco Back for PhD appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Growing the Nursing Workforce

Health Leaders | Nursing

Schools of Nursing are ramping up their efforts to accommodate nursing students. Healthcare educators are taking decisive steps in growing and strengthening the U.S. nursing workforce, with efforts ranging from simplifying the transfer of credits between higher education institutions to creating alliances with hospitals or health systems to building more nursing schools.

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Top Issues in Nursing — and How Nurse Leaders Can Address Them

Post University

Nursing has always been a tough profession, but unique challenges up the ante in the 21st century. These days, nurses — and nurse leaders — are called on to provide higher levels of care with fewer resources, particularly in the past two years with the Covid-19 pandemic. They consistently deliver, but many are beginning to feel the strain. Hence, the importance of effective nurse managers who can ease this burden while implementing a healthier work environment.

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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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Nurses at Forefront of New Abu Dhabi Cancer Center

Consult QD

After nearly a decade of intensive planning and preparation, an ultra-modern cancer center recently opened its doors at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , where it will help eliminate the need for patients to travel abroad for lifesaving treatment. Not only will the new facility provide much-needed care to cancer patients in the Middle East, but it will also help recruit and train a specialized team of oncology nurses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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The Relentless School Nurse: NASN 2023 Included A Public Health Approach to Stemming Gun Violence

The Relentless School Nurse

For decades, gun violence was treated as a battle to be won rather than a problem to be solved. – Nicholas Kristof What an honor it was to present at a general session at the NASN 2023 conference in Orlando, Florida this past week. The focus of my presentation was how s chool nurses have an opportunity to join the public health approach to reduce gun violence in schools and communities.

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The Freedom of Choice

Diane Sieg

“My choices determine how I feel and the space I’m in.” Does our well-being, how we feel about ourselves really come down to this simple and powerful statement? I think it could. Last week I completely overcommitted myself, powering through all my activities, resulting in exhaustion and grumpiness. All because of my choices. The freedom of choice is not easy to embrace when we are moving fast and furious, multitasking and focused on getting it all done.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Art & Activism Are Powerful Partners in Illustrating the Impact of Gun Violence on Our Students

The Relentless School Nurse

A tribute to an amazing high school art teacher and her social justice-minded students who wanted to express their feelings about the impact of gun violence on them and their school communities. We must include the voice of the community, including our youth, in solving the public health emergency of gun violence. Meet high school art teacher, Lisa Wallenburg!

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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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Exploring the Differences Between DNP vs PhD for Your Nursing Career

Post University

When you’re considering an advanced career in nursing, two possible paths to explore are a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing (PhD). While both careers involve an in-depth knowledge of the nursing field, they differ in significant ways. Knowing more about DNP vs PhD can help you determine which career path you might want to follow.

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Huge Nursing Shortage

SelfCare for HealthCare

The world faces a deficit of 13.5 million nurses in the next decade. In its first report on the state of the world’s nursing, the World Health Organization estimated that an additional six million nurses will be needed by 2030. This is a 20% increase from the current total global nursing stock of 27.9 million. In addition, the burden of anticipated retirement over the next decade means that 4.7 million new nurses must be recruited just to maintain current staffing levels.

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Supporting and advocating for APRNs

American Nurse

Expiring PHE waivers turn back the clock in some states Despite the proven value of advanced practice RN (APRN) care, the APRN role is at a crossroads. After 3 years of relaxed practice restrictions during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which ended in May 2023, some waivers that allowed APRNs to practice to the full extent of their training and education have expired.

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A Letter to My Fellow Nurse Battling Burnout

Empowered Nurses

Dear fellow nurse, As I sit down to pour my heart out to you, I am reminded of the countless hours we have spent side by side, offering solace, care, and hope to those in need. The bond we share, forged through shared experiences, is one of unspoken understanding and unwavering support. Today, I want to reach out to you, not just as a colleague, but as a friend who understands the weight of your weary heart.

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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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The Joint Commission: How to prepare and what to expect

American Nurse

Plan ahead and collaborate for success. Takeaways: Myths associated with accreditation surveys, such as The Joint Commission audit, are embedded into the nursing culture Debunking these myths can help leaders ensure nurses appreciate the collaboration and partnership The Joint Commission offers. Internal surveys, followed by a structured action plan to address areas for improvement, can help units and organizations prepare for upcoming accreditation surveys.

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Employee Productivity – A Manager’s Guide

Celayix

This is your guide to all things employee productivity-related. The corporate world throws the term “employee productivity” around a lot. But what exactly is it? More importantly, how do you measure it and how can you improve it? What is employee productivity? Employee productivity is a measure of how well employees or a group of workers perform within a specific timeframe.

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Room at the top

American Nurse

It’s not often that aspiring medical students go to nursing school. But Julian Gallegos, PhD, MBA, RN, FNP-BC, CNL, FAUNA, wanted to acquire patient experience while taking his medical school prerequisites. This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only. Visit the site and log in/register to read. The post Room at the top appeared first on American Nurse.

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How to Keep in Touch With Family and Friends When You’re Working as a Travel Nurse

The Gypsy Nurse

Keeping in touch with family and friends while you’re working overseas as a nurse can be tough, but with the internet and other technology, you can still communicate as often as you like. Even if you’re in the middle of traveling, you can always pick up the phone or send a quick text. 10 Ways to Keep in Touch With Family as a Travel Nurse While text or phone-based interaction can’t replace face-to-face, the following solutions to your long-distance problem will definitely hold you over until the

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Beyond Emergency Care: ER Nurses as Key Players in Forensic Evidence Collection

Every Nurse

CLINICAL PRACTICE ER Nurses as Key Players in Forensic Evidence Collection Updated July 5, 2023 by EveryNurse Staff Writers When we think of nurses, we often picture them as the caring and compassionate professionals who provide essential medical care and support to patients. However, there is a specialized field within nursing that goes beyond traditional patient care and delves into the world of forensic science.

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Understanding rebel nurse leadership?as?practice: Challenging and changing the status quo in hospitals

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Some nurses are responding rebelliously to the changing healthcare landscape by challenging the status quo and deviating from suboptimal practices, professional norms, and organizational rules. While some view rebel nurse leadership as challenging traditional structures to improve patient care, others see it as disruptive and harmful. These diverging opinions create dilemmas for nurses and nurse managers in daily practice.

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Identifying Strategies to Reduce Complications in Hospitalized Patients With Parkinson’s

Consult QD

“Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are often hospitalized, and when they are, they face particular challenges,” says Benjamin Walter, MD, MBA , Section Head of Movement Disorders at Cleveland Clinic. “The complexity of their medication regimens, and the effects when these regimens are altered, set the stage for adverse events.” In response, Dr.

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Alabama university gets $3.5M to diversify nursing faculty

Becker's Hospital Review

University of Alabama receives $3.5 million grant to increase diversity in nursing faculty and provide tuition assistance and internships to nursing students.

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Rhonda Trotter Fulfills Dream of Becoming a Nurse – 35 Years Later

Daily Nurse

Rhonda Trotter dreamed of becoming a nurse after high school, but her mother told her there were too many nurses, so she decided to go into computer science, taking a job at the United States Postal Service. She eventually went back to school to get her nursing degree, but then both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer weeks apart, and Trotter stepped back again to take care of them.

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Nurse Fired for Not Calling for Help After Having Sex with Dialysis Patient in Her Car

Scrubs

Penelope Williams is out of a job after enjoying a steamy night with one of her dialysis patients in his car. But their sexual rendezvous took a turn for the worst when the man started having chest pain. The nurse failed to call for help during the encounter and he later died of a heart attack in the backseat with his pants down. Upon investigating the matter, the U.K.

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