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Where have all the preceptors gone? Nurse leaders offer strategies to build a pipeline

Becker's Hospital Review

Nurse leaders explain why hospitals are having trouble recruiting preceptors and offer strategies to incentivize experienced nurses to take on educational leadership roles

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How Nurse Accountability Fosters High Reliability and Empowerment

Nurse.com

Today’s healthcare system faces many challenges — an increasingly complex patient population, a nursing shortage, and lingering problems from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as supply issues. Each challenge adds a layer of complexity to an already complicated industry, where even the smallest error can result in patient harm. With these challenges, nurse accountability has become a growing topic.

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Research Targets Stem Cell Therapy for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Consult QD

Cleveland Clinic researchers aim to develop a novel, mechanism-guided therapy to treat patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a chronic and debilitating condition that is resistant to traditional pain treatment. In 2022, the National Institutes of Health awarded the health system $5.5 million to develop the therapy using human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC).

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Why Nursing Conferences Still Matter

Daily Nurse

Do you believe that nurses can and should still go to nursing conferences? If so, why would they attend, and what good can come from spending all that time and money? And beyond that, do conferences even matter anymore? Making a Statement Name any discipline within the broad realm of healthcare. That discipline is home to organizations or associations that seek to grow their numbers, educate their members, and create opportunities for those individuals to meet one another, preferably in person,

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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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5 Tips for Success in Healthcare Job Interviews

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

The healthcare industry is demanding. Whether you’re a physician, nurse, or other healthcare professional, your interactions with patients and families can be life changing. As a result, employers are keen on hiring technically proficient individuals with values and personality traits that meet the role’s requirements. Behavioral interview questions are designed to understand how candidates have behaved in specific situations in the past.

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Black, Rural Southern Women at Gravest Risk From Pregnancy Miss Out on Maternal Health Aid

Scrubs

Original Reporting: Sarah Jane Tribble As maternal mortality skyrockets in the United States, a federal program created to improve rural maternity care has bypassed Black mothers, who are at the highest risk of complications and death related to pregnancy. The grant-funded initiative, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, began rolling out four years ago and, so far, has budgeted nearly $32 million to provide access and care for thousands of mothers and babies nationw

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Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: The Case Against State Medical Board Regulation

Empowered Nurses

In recent years, the role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) has expanded significantly, bringing forth a debate over whether state medical boards should regulate their practice. While some argue in favor of increased oversight, I firmly believe that state medical boards should not regulate Advanced Practice Registered Nurses. The ANA joins me in opposing state medical board oversight of APRN practice.

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Leveraging patient feedback and high-reliability interventions for inpatient communication

NRC Health

Cincinnati Children’s has tried many methods to better understand and improve the patient experience. “When you provide a defining moment, you see it in the face of a child.” The post Leveraging patient feedback and high-reliability interventions for inpatient communication appeared first on NRC Health.

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Robotically Assisted Tracheobronchoplasty: A Case Study

Consult QD

By John Barron, MD; Siva Raja, MD, PhD ; Thomas Gildea, MD ; and Sudish Murthy, MD, PhD Patient presentation and diagnosis A 67-year-old male presented to thoracic surgery clinic with complaints of worsening dyspnea on exertion and exercise intolerance that had been ongoing for four to five years. His symptoms initially were attributed to asthma but were later thought to be potential sequelae of gastroesophageal reflux resulting in laryngeal tracheal reflux and possible tracheobronchomalacia.

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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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Duke University Health Joins With Durham Tech to Boost Nursing Numbers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Duke's collaboration with a local college is part of the trend to build nursing pipelines. Duke University Health System (DUHS) nurses will teach nurse aide training at Durham (North Carolina) Technical Community College in a new partnership to increase the region’s nursing pipeline. The goal of the partnership is twofold: to retain RNs at Duke by granting them more opportunities to instruct at the bedside and to recruit more nursing students to DUHS.

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Georgia Physician Awaits $27+ Million Judgment Following False Claims Act Trial Loss

Healthcare Law Insights blog

On June 14, 2023, a federal jury found that a Georgia physician knowingly violated the False Claims Act following a two-week trial on allegations that he made false claims to the Medicare Program. Now, despite just $1.1 million in improper payments stemming from false claims, a federal court is likely to impose a judgment that exceeds $27 million after adding statutory per-claim penalties and trebling the amount determined by the jury to be false.

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CBT for Kids: How You Can Improve the Mental Health of Younger Clients

Relias

Life is full of stress, even for kids. While we often associate childhood with happiness, many children experience trauma. Whether this comes in the form of bullying, abuse, loss of loved ones, childhood trauma negatively affects children’s mental health and creates lifelong mental and physical health conditions. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one method that can help kids and teens in your community in need of mental health care get the attention they deserve.

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How To Furnish Your Temporary Home While Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

Host Healthcare provided this article. Figuring out how to furnish a temporary apartment without emptying your pockets can be challenging. How do you come up with the furniture and decor you need to be comfortable and feel at home without wasting the average housing stipend for travel nurses you receive on things you’ll inevitably leave behind? If you’re planning to take a temporary position in a new city, you’re not alone.

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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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Mayo Clinic + U. of Minnesota establish nurse-midwifery program

Becker's Hospital Review

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis have partnered to launch a nurse-midwifery training program, which is set to begin in the fall of 2024, according to a June 22 news release.

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Sexual Harassment in the Nursing Field

Diversity Nursing

Sexual harassment is a prevalent issue that can have far-reaching consequences. It can occur in any workplace, regardless of industry or job title. Nursing, unfortunately, is not immune to this problem. Nurses are often in vulnerable positions, working long hours, and caring for patients who may be in distress. This can create an environment where sexual harassment can occur.

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AdventHealth, Orlando Health commit $10M to nursing school

Becker's Hospital Review

AdventHealth and Orlando Health have each invested $5 million to support a new building and tuition assistance for students at UCF College of Nursing in Orlando, Fla.

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Staff Shortages in the Hospitality Industry

Celayix

The hospitality industry, renowned for its warm hospitality and memorable experiences, is facing a critical challenge: staff shortages. In this fast-paced and demanding sector, the scarcity of skilled and dedicated employees has become a pressing issue with far-reaching consequences. To shed light on this topic, we present an informative infographic that explores the current trends, causes, and steps to overcome staffing shortages in the hospitality industry.

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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.