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Informed Consent in Healthcare Training

American Medical Compliance

When a medical professional informs a patient of the advantages, disadvantages, and alternatives of a procedure or intervention, informed consent is obtained. In the US, medical professionals are also required by ethical and legal standards to gain consent from patients, which stems from the patient’s right to control what happens to their body.

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We Will Never Forget

Nurses Advocates

I started posting this Blog Post on September 11, 2015, as a reminder of what happened on September 11, 2001, and have posted it each year since. To remind you, coordinated terrorist groups led attacks against the United States in New York, Washington DC, and Shanksville, PA, that forever changed the course of history. Today is the 20 th anniversary of those attacks on our country.

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Key Factors to Consider When Choosing a Location for a Travel Nursing Assignment

The Gypsy Nurse

Providence Health Care Staffing provided this article. Travel Nursing has certainly hit a spike in the last 15 years, and for good reason! One of the greatest things that nurses say about traveling for their job is the ability to add a checkmark on their bucket list. The expansion of travel nursing over time has come with the abundance of new locations and destinations to explore and the ability to do so every few months.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Representative Lauren Underwood Needs the Support of Nurses!

The Relentless School Nurse

Representative Lauren Underwood, MPH, RN Nursing is political and this is a political blog post. Our voices and votes are needed now more than ever. 2024 will be a transformational election, with nothing less than our democracy hanging in the balance. I have never shied away from taking political stances because I am a nurse and nursing is inherently political.

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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.