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Transform Your Practice With The “4 Ps of Marketing” Framework

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Do you utilize a framework in your Nurse Practitioner practice? When you work with your patients and do your marketing? Not sure …? Chances are you do, even though you may not call it a framework. Although there are formal frameworks, with fancy names, across all different fields, most of us have our own informal frameworks we use every day. After all, a framework is nothing else but a tool to help us make structured decisions.

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Shorter Tenures and Tours of Duty

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Where is all of this going? It is an interesting question recently posed by a perioperative nurse leader frustrated by the turnover in her OR. Training for the OR can take a full year and sometimes longer. It is a significant investment. For years, nurses who went […] The post Shorter Tenures and Tours of Duty appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Take Our Survey and Tell About Your Nursing Experiences

Minority Nurse

With all the talk about a nursing shortage, nurse satisfaction is a key priority in healthcare, and uncovering and addressing issues for nurses is more critical than ever. Minority Nurse recently launched a Nursing Satisfaction Survey to learn more about nursing education and career topics beneficial to our readers and help boost talent retention and create a more productive workforce.

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South Dakota Moves to Streamline Nurse Education

Health Leaders | Nursing

'Increasing the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate or higher degree will significantly impact healthcare in South Dakota.' Nursing education in South Dakota is getting a boost with two wide-reaching initiatives designed to grow the state’s healthcare workforce. The first creates a statewide nursing agreement to simplify the process of transferring credits between higher education institutions for nursing students, according to the South Dakota Board of Regents , which authorized both move

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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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Case Study: Persistent Humeral Nonunion Treated With Vascularized Fibular Graft (Video)

Consult QD

After a ground-level fall, a 64-year-old woman sustained a comminuted proximal humerus fracture with radial nerve injury. A non-Cleveland Clinic surgeon repaired the fracture with an intramedullary nail. However, healing was delayed, and eventually the patient was found to have deep infection. The patient underwent a cleanup procedure, but seven months later she required removal of the intramedullary nail due to nonunion and loose hardware.

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Two Nurses, Three Doctors Injured in Violent Patient Rampage

Scrubs

Healthcare professionals in Australia are calling for 24-hour security guards in hospitals after two nurses and three doctors were injured by a violent patient at Port Pirie Regional Health Service. The 75-year-old man approached a nurse in a hospital corridor, stepped on her foot, and punched her in the head before being chased around the ward, injuring another nurse and three doctors in the process, who were then treated for bruises in the emergency room.

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Take Our Survey and Tell About Your Nursing Experiences

Daily Nurse

With all the talk about a nursing shortage, nurse satisfaction is a key priority in healthcare, and uncovering and addressing issues for nurses is more critical than ever. Daily Nurse recently launched a Nursing Satisfaction Survey to learn more about nursing education and career topics beneficial to our readers and help boost talent retention and create a more productive workforce.

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Woman pretends to be nurse, attempts to discharge 2 patients: Police

Becker's Hospital Review

A Tennessee woman is accused of telling two emergency room patients she was a nurse and they were being discharged from the hospital, ABC affiliate WTVC reported June 27.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” Integrated care management takes this one step further by creating a person-centered and evidence-based method of coordinating support across providers, payers , and more.

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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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More nurses claim innocence in degree scheme

Becker's Hospital Review

Five months after the Justice Department charged 25 people for allegedly selling thousands of fake nursing degrees, nurses with annulled licenses because of the scheme told The Philadelphia Inquirer they were scammed.

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Reaffirming Our Commitment to Diversity and Equity

Penn Nursing

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to rule against affirmative action, thereby striking down the ability of schools to consider race as part of the admissions process, does not negate the need to continue building a nursing workforce as diverse as the people our health care institutions serve. Today's ruling does not diminish our commitment to educating a diverse nursing workforce that is critical to ensuring quality health care and promoting health for everyone, everywhere.

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CNO for a day: What 8 nurses would do differently

Becker's Hospital Review

Nurse retention and happiness are top of mind for many leaders among an increase in strikes and nurses leaving the profession.

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3 Things AI Can Do for Your Business

Celayix

We live in a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is driving many of the most significant technologies of today. AI technology has provided a platform for the smallest and largest businesses to grow through the use of more intelligent business processes. Teaching computers to automate and communicate has lead to smarter decision making which has transformed the entire outlook of business as we know it.

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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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Nursing Shortage Woes: How Will Current Staffing Trends Affect You as a Travel Nurse?

The Gypsy Nurse

Jogan Health provided this article. 2023 has been a year full of twists and turns for the healthcare industry. One of the most pressing issues – as evidenced by the massive amount of media coverage – is the current nursing shortage. As a travel nurse, you might be wondering how this is going to affect your career. To assuage any anxiety you might be feeling, we want to remind our readers at TGN of the opportunities this provides.

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Employee Appreciation- What it is and how to introduce it

Celayix

What is Employee Appreciation? Employee appreciation is an act by employers or organizations to acknowledge the inherent value of employees. Instead of focusing only on their performance, it celebrates their worth as a member of the business and as human beings. This requires significant attention to detail and creativity when implementing appreciation programs in the workplace.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Cara Lunsford

Minority Nurse

Cara Lunsford is the VP of Community at Nurse.com , fostering a community where nurses can find peer support, allies, professional opportunities, resources, and education. She’s also the host of Nurse.com’s NurseDot Podcast and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, highlighting a variety of voices within the nursing industry while also speaking to her personal experiences as an RN and founder of HOLLIBLU, a social networking app exclusively for nurses (acquired by Nurse.com in 2022).

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Encouraging Employees To Optimize Performance

Celayix

Organizations are constantly seeking ways to gain a competitive edge and thrive amidst increasing demands and challenges. Technological advancements and streamlined processes play a major role. It is up to the employees to help an organization reach its full potential. Encouraging employees to optimize their performance not only benefits the individuals but also has a profound impact on the overall success of the organization.

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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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Nursing is 3rd-most popular profession on TikTok

Becker's Hospital Review

An analysis of 35 professions on TikTok found nurses were the third-most popular profession represented, registerednursing.org reported June 6.

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Tips for Facilitating Effective Communication Between Caregivers and Individuals with IDD

Relias

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of 1973’s Rehabilitation Act requires that physicians and all other healthcare providers effectively communicate with people with disabilities. But for those working in IDD care settings, communication barriers may arise. This is because the language and communication skills of each person with IDD are unique.

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Voices of Penn Medicine Pride

Penn Medicine News

Penn Medicine staff joined in the 2023 Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Pride March & Festival. We asked marchers to share views on building a healthcare environment that supports LGBTQ+ staff while fostering best possible health outcomes for queer patients.

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Critical ethnography and its others: Entanglement of matter/meaning/madness

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Beginning with a critical examination of the humanist assumptions of critical ethnography, this article interrogates and surfaces problems with the ontological and epistemological orientations of this research methodology. In drawing on exemplar empirical data from an arts-based project, the article demonstrates the limitations in the humanist-based qualitative research approach and advances a postdualist, postrepresentationalist direction for critical ethnography called entangled ethno

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Busting the Top 5 Myths about Executive Coaching & Ways to Maximize Your Experience

The Leadership Development Group

At The Leadership Development Group, we’re experts in executive coaching. And, we recognize that if you haven’t been fortunate enough to experience coaching yourself, you may fall prey to some common misconceptions. In this blog, we’re debunking some of the most common myths surrounding executive coaching and providing a few ways to maximize your coaching experience.

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Laparoscopic Left-Lobe Hepatectomy a Safe, Effective Approach for Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Consult QD

Laparoscopic living donor hepatectomy (LDH) with a left-lobe graft (LLG) for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is beneficial for both donors and recipients, according to Cleveland Clinic’s first comprehensive study of its LDLT program which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Surgical Association. To provide the best possible outcomes for donors, Cleveland Clinic has embraced the latest advances in living donor liver transplantation – LLG and laparoscopic LDH.

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BMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management

American Nurse

Amid the buzz around weight loss drugs and rising rates of obesity worldwide , many health care professionals are questioning one of the key measures that has long been used to define obesity. On June 14, 2023, the American Medical Association adopted a new policy, calling on doctors to deemphasize the role of body mass index , or BMI, in clinical practice.

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Improved Renal Blood Flow Observed Following Bariatric Surgery

Consult QD

In an ongoing effort to study the effects of bariatric surgery on chronic kidney disease (CKD), a team of Cleveland Clinic researchers in Florida have identified reduced renal blood flow (RBF) as a potentially reversible mechanism of kidney injury among patients with severe obesity. According to lead author David Romero Funes, MD, “Most of the literature suggests that diabetes and hypertension are the driving factors in the development of kidney disease, but we hypothesize that there is another

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