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New Cleveland Clinic Podcast Aims to Encourage, Educate Nurses in Unprecedented Times

Consult QD

A new Cleveland Clinic podcast series created by and for nurses aims to help listeners navigate the ever-changing healthcare landscape through interviews and discussions on the most important topics that affect their lives and careers. Launched in April, “ Nurse Essentials ” will focus on everything from career growth to clinical practice challenges to self-care.

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Nurses Week and Month celebrate pioneers, focus on future

Nurse.com

Content courtesy of Seattle University. Often referred to as the mother of nursing, Florence Nightingale will be celebrated during Nurses Week and Nurses Month in May. And this year, the contributions of a lesser known, yet extremely important, pioneer in nursing will be celebrated along with Nightingale. Well-known national and international organizations intend to recognize these nurses and also bring attention to current issues in nursing to foster change and progress in the profession.

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Shenandoah University and Valley Health Partner to Tackle Nursing Shortage 

Daily Nurse

In collaboration with Valley Health and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA), Shenandoah University is working to tackle the region’s nursing shortage through a program that will enhance the training of aspiring nurses and create a sustainable pipeline of new healthcare professionals. NextGen Nurses program draws upon the expertise of semi-retired and retiring nurses to help train the next generation of nurses before they leave the profession.

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A “New Era” for Social Determinants of Health

Nurse.com

Nurses are going beyond a “screen and refer” approach to ensure patients and families get the help they need. Social determinants of health (SDOH) assessments can be used to achieve better outcomes. Imagine you’re a nurse in a neonatal ward. You notice a new mother only visits her baby a few times a week and stays only 15 minutes each time. Would that give you a negative opinion of the mom?

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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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Nursing groups throw weight behind ICAN Act

Becker's Hospital Review

Nursing associations are voicing their support for House legislation reintroduced this week that would remove practice barriers for advanced practice registered nurses.

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Exploring the Need for More Nurse Educators in Healthcare

Diversity Nursing

There is a growing need for more Nurse Educators to address the current shortage of Nurses and ensure the future generations of Nurses are well-trained and prepared to provide quality care. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Projections 2021-2031 , the Registered Nursing (RN) workforce is expected to grow by 6% over the next decade.

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The case for advanced nursing degrees: As told by nurses themselves

Becker's Hospital Review

More nurses are needed at the bedside than ever before, yet the profession continues to suffer from shortages and turnover rates as high as 37 percent in some regions. And although pursuing advanced nursing degrees may sometimes lead practice away from bedside roles and into others, Master of Science in nursing degrees are still worthy of pursuit, experts say.

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Travel Nurse Interview Advice from Premier Recruiters

Premier Medical Staffing

Job Information Job Profession: Travel Nurse Interview Advice from Premier Recruiters Job State: Job Location: Job Specialty: Job Assignment: Job interviews are always a source of stress among applicants, and as a travel nurse, you’ll have more than your fair share of them. If you struggle getting through those tough intro calls or meetings with recruiters, don’t worry!

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Healthcare Field Embracing Remote Work

American Medical Compliance

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many industries to adapt to remote work, and the healthcare sector is no exception. In a recent article, Forbes Business Council member Stephanie Abbati highlights the benefits of embracing telehealth. Advantages of Remote Work One of the main advantages of remote work in healthcare is increased access to care. Patients who live in remote or underserved areas may find it difficult to access healthcare services in person.

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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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Exploring the Neonatal Nursing Specialty

Nurse.com

Content courtesy of UPMC. Whether you’re a nursing student, new graduate, or experienced nurse, choosing the right specialty can provide you job satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment. One nursing specialty that can be particularly rewarding is neonatal nursing. Before deciding on this specialization, you’ll want to know how to become a neonatal nurse and what to expect.

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Video: HealthLeaders Weekly Wrap

Health Leaders | Nursing

The Weekly Wrap, HealthLeaders' video series, brings you a quick look at what we're covering around the healthcare industry. Looking for a quick review of what’s hot in the healthcare industry? Our Weekly Wrap video recaps the latest news and analysis that HealthLeaders covers each week and features health system, hospital, pharma, and payer executives.

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Nurse Mentorships and How They Can Benefit You

Nurse.com

Whether you’re a new nurse, just transitioning to a specialty area, or a knowledgeable nurse seeking to share your wisdom, nurse mentorships are invaluable for both mentors and mentees. Many may consider nurse mentorships to be synonymous with a preceptorship. While preceptorships share similarities with nurse mentorships, they’re vastly different. Precepting is a method used to orient nurses into the work environment through teaching and clinical evaluation.

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The Benefits of Nursing Informatics: How Information Technology Is Revolutionizing Patient Care

Post University

Advanced technology plays a vital role in the modern healthcare sector: It determines how patients are assessed, diagnosed, and treated and plays heavily into billing, patient privacy, creating and evaluating quality benchmarks, and everything else that keeps facilities running smoothly. Healthcare informatics underscores all this, with nursing informatics particularly promising to dramatically improve outcomes throughout the industry.

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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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Before My Shift, I Decide Who To Be

Nurse.com

Content courtesy of Nurse Mates. There’s a quiet, magical buzz just outside the hospital. In the mornings, before the sun rises, I can feel it. Some days it’s almost friendly. Other times it’s ominous. Or just still. That stillness is so strange, knowing that just inside those doors is a different world, churning in chaos, the worst and best moments of human lives happening within.

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symplr in the Spotlight, April 2023 | symplr

Symplr

Each month we provide a roundup of news, awards, and features about symplr and symplr's subject-matter experts. symplr customer Cone Health presented at HIMSS 2023 symplr customer Cone Health was selected to present its digitized peer review process by the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society at the HIMSS 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition.

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The Relentless School Nurse: It Comes Down to This! Safety is a Basic Human Right…

The Relentless School Nurse

I had a conversation with my husband, Ed, that I had not had before, the one where I admitted I was fearful of being shot at school. I have thought about it, those deep, dark thoughts that pass through my mind almost every single day, but I had not shared it out loud. By saying those words, it made my fear feel very real. Columbine happened 24 years ago this week, almost every day feels like a commemoration of another mass shooting.

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Neighborhood Deprivation Linked to Adverse Neuropsychological Effects in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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Most of the international research that has searched for predictors of cognitive and behavioral complications of the epilepsies has focused on disease-related factors (e.g., duration of disorder, location/laterality of seizure onset) or markers of neurobiological integrity (e.g., quantitative neuroimaging techniques). Now a new study has found that people with pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) appear more likely to have deficits in cognitive function and depressed mood if they live

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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.

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Make Time for Meaningful Recognition

Nurse.com

Content courtesy of Temple Health. It’s a well-known fact that nursing is one of the most physically and emotionally challenging professions. Caring for multiple patients and multitasking often leaves nurses without adequate time for necessities like meals or bathroom breaks. With a national rise in staff shortages, nurses are also required to work extra shifts, increasing the chances of exhaustion and burnout.

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This Earth Day, Let’s Consider Disposable Healthcare Devices through the Lens of the Nursing Code of Ethics

Nursology

Contributor: Kristin Six, BSN, RN, CWOCNEarth Day 2023 – Saturday, April 22 Every day, nurses strive to work in line with the nursing profession’s principle of beneficence, or working to do good. But our nursing practice often directly violates another of nursing’s core ethical principles, nonmaleficence, more commonly known as “do no harm.

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