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Leasing Office Space for Your NP Practice

Nurse Practitioners in Business

One of the early steps when starting a practice is finding office space and signing a lease. Some NPs want to lease an entire suite, while others are looking to rent one exam room. Either one is fine, but finding space involves signing a commercial lease. While virtually everyone has signed a personal lease agreement, few have experience with signing a commercial lease.

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It’s Not Selfish—It’s Survival: Why Nurses Must Start Giving to Themselves

Empowered Nurses

They told us it would be hard. But they never told us that in the pursuit of saving everyone else, we might lose ourselves. As nurses, we are hardwired to care (its in our DNA)for our patients, our colleagues, our families, and sometimes even strangers on the street. We are taught to push through exhaustion, set aside our own pain, and just do what needs to be done.

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Working with Children with Special Needs? Top Careers & Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Those who work with children with special needs fill a need that 17% of children have, making them critical members of the workforce. 1 These children may have challenges in physical language, learning or behavior areas. Professionals can work with them to overcome difficulties and impact their lifelong development. 1 , 2 Children with special needs and special needs children are phrases that mean the same thing: children who need additional support because of physical, developmental or cognitiv

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Travel Nursing: How Long Does It Really Take to Start?

Core Medical Group

How long does it take to become a travel nurse? Learn how many years of college you need, degree requirements, and the fastest path to travel nursing.

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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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How an experienced Surg Tech found flexibility—and joy—in Montana

Providence

The poet Mary Oliver once asked, Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? That answer can change depending on where we are in lifeearly career, mid-career, or after stepping away for a while.

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NRC Health’s Jennifer Baron Named One of 2025’s Top Women Chief Experience Officers

NRC Health

NRC Health is proud to celebrate our Chief Experience Officer Jennifer Baron for being named one of Women We Admires Top 50 Women Chief Experience Officers of 2025. The post NRC Healths Jennifer Baron Named One of 2025s Top Women Chief Experience Officers appeared first on NRC Health.

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Managing the Unpredictable – Discourses of Power and Knowledge in Mental Health Risk Management

Nursing Inquiry

ABSTRACT In mental health, the safety and risk concept refers to a complex phenomenon with strong connections to risk management strategies, simultaneously influenced by the ideals of patient involvement and empowerment. The aim of this paper is to analyze discourses linked to patient involvement and the management of risk and safety, as articulated in the protocol for the Early Recognition Method (ERM) risk management strategy.

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Backus Hospital nurses hold demonstration over patient care concerns

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurses at Backus Hospital held an informational picket on Thursday morning to raise concerns about a growing patient care crisis. The demonstration, organized by a union representing approximately 450 nurses at the Norwich-based hospital, came amid ongoing contract negotiations with hospital management.

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Beyond Strength: The Paradox of the Strong Black Woman in Nursing and Leadership

Nursing Inquiry

ABSTRACT The Strong Black Woman schema is a deeply ingrained sociocultural construct that promotes resilience, independence, and self-sacrifice among Black women. While often seen as a source of strength, this schema also imposes profound psychological and professional burdens, particularly in nursing leadership, where Black women are expected to navigate systemic inequities while demonstrating unwavering fortitude.

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Bill to let qualified nurses practice independently overcomes divisions

Health Leaders | Nursing

Legislation to allow nurses with advanced training to practice independently has overcome objections that led the measure to be vetoed twice in the last four years, the Assemblys health committee heard Tuesday. AB 257 would create a new health care professional category of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). APRNs would include certified nurse-midwives, certified registered nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners.

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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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Moving Forward: How Nurses Can Recover From Pandemic PTSD

Minority Nurse

It’s been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, but nurses still feel the aftermath of compassion fatigue from the healthcare crisis years later. Many nurses were frontline workers during the height of the pandemic and faced most of the stress of caring for infected patients amid staff shortages and the risk of getting infected. In a 2022 study , around 50% of nonphysician healthcare workers reported symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD.

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Advocates push for mandatory minimum nurse staffing ratios at Illinois hospitals

Health Leaders | Nursing

Health care unions continue to rally for legislation to address understaffing they say strains hospitals and threatens both patient safety and staff well-being. Lawmakers are considering the Hospital Worker Staff and Safety bill, which would establish mandatory nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and increase support for underfunded hospitals. The proposed legislation, Senate Bill 21 and House Bill 3512, aims to establish minimum staffing ratios in hospitals and fund critical safety-net hospitals a

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The Nurse as Fierce Patient Advocate

Daily Nurse

As highly respected healthcare professionals who often go above and beyond the call of duty, we nurses are natural patient advocates. Advocacy is in our nursing DNA. The nursing process may begin with an assessment, but where the rubber hits the road is when nurses go to bat for their patients to ensure they receive the best possible care when they need it most.