Wed.Jan 24, 2024

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Boundaries in Leadership Roles

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I was reminded again this week in talking with new managers about how important leadership boundaries are today. So many leaders feel under intense pressure to be all things for staff, but leadership roles are unsustainable without boundaries. Nurse manager recruitment and retention is a critical challenge. […] The post Boundaries in Leadership Roles appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Novel Procedure Brings a Smile to Patients with Facial Paralysis (Podcast)

Consult QD

When people smile spontaneously, not only do the corners of their mouths and cheeks lift. The smile reaches the eyes, causing the corners to wrinkle up with crow’s feet. This smile – called the Duchenne smile – is now possible for people with facial paralysis thanks to a surgical innovation, the tri-vector gracilis flap procedure. In a recent episode of Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Innovations podcast, Patrick Byrne, MD, MBA , chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surg

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Driving innovation in healthcare settings through academic/practice partnerships

American Nurse

Every day, every shift, maybe even every patient interaction, clinical nurses are experts in identifying gaps in care and creating innovative workarounds. Despite the fact that nurses are optimally positioned to know what is working (or not) within healthcare systems, they’re underrepresented in formal innovation and face significant barriers to engaging in innovation.

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An untapped nursing resource for hospitals

Becker's Hospital Review

Virtual nursing could be the key to upcoming novel solutions for pressing healthcare issues, according to an article published in AACN Advanced Clinical Care.

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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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Nurses at the John Theurer Cancer Center Recognized by the Oncology Nursing Society

Daily Nurse

Oncology nurses at the John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) in Hackensack, NJ, are making a difference in the lives of cancer patients. Margaret Hopkins, RN, is one of those nurses, and she feels blessed every day to be a part of such a fantastic team. As a cancer survivor herself, Hopkins has been on both sides of cancer treatment and knows the magic of the work at JTCC.

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8 Tips for Beating the Winter Blues as a Travel Nurse

The Gypsy Nurse

TNAA-Travel Nurse Across America provided this article. Winter can be a magical season filled with cozy nights, holiday celebrations, and the charm of snow-covered landscapes. However, for travel nurses constantly on the move, winter can also bring about feelings of isolation, homesickness, and the infamous winter blues. The combination of shorter days, colder temperatures, and being away from familiar surroundings can be challenging.

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What to Look for in a Nurse Residency Program

Minority Nurse

As in most things, getting off to a good start as a nurse can help ensure a long, successful, and satisfying career. With nursing shortages and nurse burnout still taking a tremendous toll on the profession, hospitals must do all they can to ensure new nurses have the tools to succeed. Organizations help ensure success for new nurses through nurse residency programs, also called transition to practice or new grad programs.

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The importance of Employee Communication in the Workplace

Celayix

70% of company mistakes are due to poor communication. Gartner Research Effective employee communication in the workplace is an integral part to the success of any organization. It is what drives productivity, relationships and engagement and also mitigates conflict. During the pandemic, we saw the adoption of remote working from companies all over the world.

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Renewed push to give nurse practitioners more authority

Health Leaders | Nursing

There is a renewed push in Pennsylvania to release restrictions on nurse practitioners in order to make sure everyone can access health care. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to dump the requirement that nurse practitioners contract with doctors.

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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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Low Mortality Is Possible in Elective Multivalve Cardiac Reoperations

Consult QD

Elective reoperation involving multiple cardiac valves can be performed safely with low associated mortality, finds a Cleveland Clinic study of more than 2,300 patients who underwent reoperations involving repair or replacement of two or more valves. The study, one of the largest series of such cases ever published, reveals that the number of surgical components and the patient’s health status were important factors predicting operative risk.

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Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Juvenile Offenders

Relias

Juvenile justice is shifting towards a more compassionate and nuanced approach that recognizes the profound impact of trauma on young offenders’ lives. For effective interventions, understanding the existing traumas that contribute to delinquency is paramount. By adopting a trauma-informed perspective, juvenile justice systems and organizations can address immediate legal concerns but also foster healing, resilience, and positive transformation for young people engaged in the juvenile just

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Wash. Federal Judge Pokes Hole in New Wave of Vaccine Mandate Challenges

Healthcare Law Insights blog

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer worked diligently to develop safe and effective vaccines. Following the FDA’s approval of these vaccines, many state governments and private employers—including those in the educational and medical fields—implemented policies requiring certain individuals obtain them. Some individuals subject to these policies have been challenging them in court ever since under a variety of constitutional and statutory arguments, largely

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Infographic: 5 Tips for Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

The goal is to provide better patient care, say CNOs and CNIOs in the know. With nursing tech disruption at a fever pitch, savvy CNOs and CNIOs are putting their heads together to ensure their investments make real impact. And there’s one place in particular where they’re setting their sights: virtual nursing. Here's what CNOs should keep in mind when developing and integrating virtual nursing into their programs.

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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.