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What Is A Clearing House & Do You Need One?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Recently, we received a few questions about using a clearinghouse. Specifically, what is a clearinghouse, if its necessary, and whether NPs must use one. Clearinghouse, claims, billing The process of getting paid for the work you do can be confusing. So lets shed some light on it and try to untangle the pieces. What Is a Clearinghouse? A clearinghouse or, in healthcare, a medical billing clearinghouse, acts as a middleman between your practice and health insurance companies.

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How to Retrain Your Brain: 8 Tips for Positivity and Success

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

How you communicate with yourself has a significant impact on how you feel about yourself and others. Positive self-talk has the power to retrain your brain and propel you to great heights. 1 Negative self-talk can bring you down, where you feel like giving up. If you are engaging in negative self-talkberating yourself about a bad grade or telling yourself you wont succeedits time to learn how to retrain your brain.

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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

Private duty nursing is a growing and in-demand field offering a highly personalized approach to patient care. In 2025, as healthcare continues to expand beyond hospitals and into homes, the role of the private duty nurse has become more essential than ever, especially for patients needing long-term care, chronic condition support, or specialized attention within the comfort of their own residences.

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Virtual Nursing Programs Need to Balance Growth With Value

Health Leaders | Nursing

Jefferson Health, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program, is strategically expanding its program as it looks for sustainability Jefferson Health launched its virtual nursing program in 2023, and is expanding its strategy to broaden the virtual observation footprint and include inpatient provider consults. Theyre also exploring opportunities to integrate other care team connections, such as diabetes educators.

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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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Top RN to MSN Specialties: Career Paths for Advancing Nurses

Registered Nursing

Registered nurses looking to advance their careers, increase their earning potential, and specialize in areas they’re passionate about often turn to RN to MSN (Master of Science in Nursing) programs. These accelerated pathways allow working RNs to bypass the traditional BSN requirement and move directly into specialized master’s-level training.

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What Nurses Need to Know Now

Empowered Nurses

If no one has told you latelyyou are doing an incredible job. Not just at the bedside. Not just in documentation, delegation, or critical thinking. But in showing up, day after day, in a world that is heavier, faster, and more demanding than ever before. I dont know your exact story, but I know the weight you carry. And today, I want to share a few things that every nurseevery single one of usneeds to know right now. 1.

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From Burnout to Balance: Supporting Nurses Through Smarter HR Practices

Daily Nurse

The nursing profession demands resilience, compassion, and long hours. For many nurses, the emotional and physical toll of the job is compounded by administrative stresslate paychecks, confusing benefits portals, or disorganized shift scheduling. These burdens might seem minor in isolation, but they add up fast. As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, so does the need for supportive infrastructure.

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A breath of fresh air: Marcus’s journey to a respiratory career in Eureka, California

Providence

When Marcus started working at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, he wasnt a licensed respiratory therapistyet. He was fresh out of college, unsure of his direction, and working on the Lift Team thanks to a family friend who nudged him to apply.

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Hot off the Press – ANS 48:2 – April-June 2025

Advances in Nursing Science

The latest issue of ANS is now available to view on the ANS Website! In Dr Eun Ok Im’s editorial for this issue, she discusses the impending impacts of the recent drastic changes to the National Institute of Health (NIH), and particularly the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).

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The Relentless School Nurse: A Dark Day in My School District…

The Relentless School Nurse

As a school nurse in the Camden City School District, I am witnessing the devastating impact of a crisis reshaping our schools: sweeping layoffs and deep budget cuts stemming from a $91 million shortfall for the 202526 school year. Every district employee, including school nurses, will be affected, and our ability to effectively care for students is the top priority.

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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