Nurse Practitioners in Business
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
At one time or another, all of us experience failure. If you run a business, you could face losing it because of the business failing. Naturally, we don’t like failure; it doesn’t feel good. But even though we all fail repeatedly… As children, we must learn how to walk. We keep falling until we know how to walk; we fail until we succeed. The same happens when we learn to read, ride a bike, or swim.
American Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
The current state of nursing requires change. Takeaways: Nursing’s collective experience with the pandemic requires a re-evaluation of the profession’s relationship with the public. Ethical practice and the integrity of the profession depends on supportive social conditions. Nurses should act as full partners in the re-design of an equitable healthcare system.
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Minority Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Every organization or workplace in healthcare or any other industry has a workplace culture , whether those working there are conscious of it or not. The best workplace cultures are consciously and proactively created by everyone involved, and the worst cultures exist without a shred of intention. But what exactly is workplace culture, and how do you know your organization’s culture?
Daily Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
We’ve all heard the statistics about the growing need for trained healthcare professionals, especially nurses, within our society. Federal estimates indicate that not nearly enough people are entering the field to meet the projected healthcare needs of the coming decades. Although the overall need is concerning, the issue is particularly acute in rural communities.
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.
American Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Strategies and support to improve mental health outcomes Suicide and mental illness have long been stigmatized, and although public awareness has grown recently, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals hesitate to acknowledge their own mental health struggles or seek help. Several barriers contribute to this hesitation, including cultural perceptions and beliefs, shame and guilt, lack of family/social support, insufficient numbers of mental health clinicians, variable effectiven
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Amercan Journal of Nursing
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
A friend’s desperation. Photo by Ben Blennerhassett on Unsplash It was early in the morning when I received a call from my best friend, who was crying and distraught. She frantically rattled off her symptoms: “My stomach is on fire, I can’t sleep, nothing is relieving the discomfort, and I’m in excruciating pain.” Although she’d been feeling discomfort for the previous two weeks, at first she’d thought the intensity of her current symptoms might be from food poisoni
American Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Remove the trauma of healthcare visits for this patient population. Takeaways: Patients with deafblindness have needs beyond the basic knowledge provided in most nursing schools regarding hearing and visual impairment. Although 45,000 to 50,000 Americans experience the effects of deafblindness, only 1% have both total blindness and hearing loss; 5% are totally blind, and 20% have profound hearing loss.
Consult QD
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Newer treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, immunotherapies, antibody-drug conjugates, growth factor receptors, check point inhibitors and targeted therapies improve the prognosis for many types of cancer. Yet in the real-world setting, cases of ocular side effects have emerged in greater frequency both in new and established therapies than were seen in many clinical trials.
American Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Insights for nurse leaders Takeaways: Filipino-American nurses comprise an estimated 4.5% of the more than 3.8 million RNs in the United States but account for approximately 30% of the nurses who died from COVID-19 during the pandemic. Many in the Filipino community hesitate to discuss negative emotions openly or seek mental health services. Nursing leaders can develop support programs that create a culturally sensitive and safe environment for these nurses to seek help and discuss their emotion
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
Becker's Hospital Review
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Nurse Practitioner remains the nursing occupation with the highest projected growth by 2031, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics has updated their projections since May
Consult QD
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Nurse Essentials · The Role of Humor in Nursing Humor is important in the nursing profession as a stress reliever, an ice breaker with patients and a way to bond with fellow caregivers. Yet some nurses are unsure when and how to use humor in the healthcare setting. “I think a lot of times folks think, ‘Oh, I’m not good at jokes. I don’t have a sense of humor.
NRC Health
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
NRC Health is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 Consumer Loyalty Awards and the Excellence in Patient Experience Awards. The post NRC Health names winner of new award recognizing critical access facilities appeared first on NRC Health.
Consult QD
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
When the FDA announced in July that it determined paclitaxel-coated devices are not associated with excess mortality risk for patients with atherosclerotic lesions in the femoropopliteal artery, the decision did more than expand many patients’ treatment options. It also established a promising model for how the FDA, physicians and the medical device industry can collaborate to efficiently address pressing clinical questions.
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.
Hospital Recruiting | Nursing
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Congratulations! You’ve accepted a job offer and are getting ready to begin your new opportunity. While it’s tempting to sit back and relax until you start your new job, taking advantage of this period can make a significant difference in your career and help you start right. In this blog post, we’ll explore six actions you should consider between accepting an offer and starting a new job to ensure a smooth transition and set yourself up for success.
Empowered Nurses
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
I was so excited to see that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities. This proposed rule seeks to establish comprehensive nursing staffing requirements. I love this initiative because residents in nursing homes are not always given the best care due to short staffing. Although there are requirements that facilities must provide sufficient levels of staffing pursuant to the OBRA regulations, chronic understaffing is p
American Nurse
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Respond with abundance, prioritize strengths. Takeaways: Peer-support programs help reduce perceived stress and mitigate stress-related physiological symptoms. Matching requestors of peer support with trained supporters from similar clinical backgrounds aids effective communication. Trained peer-supporters listen to nurse concerns but don’t offer advice unless requested.
Nurse.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Several new apps are hitting the market to relieve some pressure for nurses. Whether it’s an app to help nursing students study for the NCLEX or a community app to foster relationships between nurses nationwide, here are some of the best apps for nurses. The Nurse.com App Cost: Free Nurse.com’s app is the first of its kind — the only social networking app exclusively for nurses.
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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