June, 2023

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Using AI to Transform Nursing Education 

Daily Nurse

Big data and machine learning already impact most aspects of modern life, so there is growing optimism about using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform health provider education. Cristina Lussiana is a senior program manager of digital health and monitoring at Population Services International ( PSI ) and an expert in the health applications of AI.

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Benefits of Taking Time Off Between Travel Nursing Contracts

Premier Medical Staffing

Job Information Job Profession: Benefits of Taking Time Off Between Travel Nursing Contracts Job State: Job Location: Job Specialty: Job Assignment: Nursing is an inherently stressful profession , and f or travel nurses, changing scenery every 13 weeks can compound stress. Travel nursing comes with so many amazing benefits, but it is not without its challenges.

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How to Reduce Interprofessional Conflict

Healthy Workforce Institute

Interprofessional conflict in healthcare is on the rise. Not only does this conflict cause tension between healthcare professionals, but it ultimately impacts patient care. If anyone on the healthcare team isn’t comfortable or willing to communicate with anyone else on the team, it directly impacts a patient. As a healthcare leader, therefore, it is essential to address and mitigate these conflicts to promote a respectful and healthy work culture that ensures safe, quality patient care.

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What’s Trending Now

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN This week marks the mid-point of the calendar year 2023. Most healthcare leaders had hoped that 2023 would be less turbulent, but most of the previous three years’ challenges continue. Here is what nurse leaders are talking about now: The financial margins for for-profit systems are improving. […] The post What’s Trending Now appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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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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Use This 5-Step Approach To Market Your Small NP Practice Effectively

Nurse Practitioners in Business

What do you do to market your NP-Practice effectively? Before we answer that question, though, let’s get one thing out in the open… Too many small business owners believe they don’t need to market their business. But that’s a dangerous belief! I am here to tell you that marketing is essential, no matter the type or size of business, if you want to stay in and grow your business.

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New Grad Nurse Season

The Nursing Site

Although nurses graduate each term, May and June remain known for new grad nurse season. Congratulations to all the new grads whether you be total newbies or seasoned nurses with a higher education degree. Welcome to the nursing family You are all so very needed! For the newbies, the NCLEX is next for RN’s and LPN/LVNs. Time to hit the books again.

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Realities & Life

Life of a Nurse

Best-laid plans survive until they’re acted upon, and all kinds of crap can occur. Not to be overly pessimistic, but my last blog entry has been challenging to bring fully to reality due to all that stuff of life. I related my intention to improve my fitness and intrinsic strength of my core due to a nurse’s back pain; indeed, I have reached that age where it’s not maintenance.

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‘Essential’: hospital staffing key concern for NSW’s new health minister

Nursing Review

The NSW Health Minister is prioritising fairer staffing ratios in hospitals and better working conditions for the state's frontline workers. Health Minister Ryan Park told Nursing Review he planned to address staffing shortages, high work pressure, and recruitment challenges. "We need to ensure our healthcare workers are at the heart of our healthcare system," Mr Park said.

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Culture Shock

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I spent last week at the Gallup Work Summit. Researchers at Gallup have been studying workforce and workplace issues for more than 50 years. They are well-positioned to look at data across time and advise leaders on the future of the work. So when they report that […] The post Culture Shock appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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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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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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The Exec: Nurse Satisfaction is Rising, Patient Calls are Falling with UnityPoint Health's New Care Model

Health Leaders | Nursing

The new Collaborative Care Model is rooted in positioning team members to practice at top of their licensure. When UnityPoint Health began exploring new inpatient care delivery models, D’Andre Carpenter, DNP, RN , chief nursing officer, wanted to go beyond the concept of team-based care to position nurses and other clinicians to practice at the top of their license.

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Expanding HIV Prevention for Pride Month: Empowering Communities with New PrEP Modalities

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

Hello, Pride community! This is Amit “Mickey” Dhir, I am a Ph.D. student at JHSON and my research specifically focuses on HIV prevention and its impact within key populations. As we celebrate Pride Month, it’s essential to highlight the advancements in HIV prevention that are revolutionizing the fight against the epidemic. Today, we’ll explore new… The post Expanding HIV Prevention for Pride Month: Empowering Communities with New PrEP Modalities appeared first on Johns Hopkins

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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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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 and the evolution of population health

American Nurse

Look to the past to prepare for the future. Takeaways: An urgent need exists for nurses to engage in and lead population health activities and services. Many familiar with the nurse role in acute care view the nurses engaged in population health activities as novel, but nursing has a long history of involvement in this aspect of healthcare. Nurses with competency to engage in and lead population health programs can help design and implement activities to improve a community’s overall health.

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Nursing Care Plan for Risk for Infection

NurseBuff

Do you need a guide for nursing diagnosis for infection? As a nurse, you have a very important role when it comes to preventing infections. You are at the front line when it comes to delivering quality care so you need to be aware of what can and can’t compromise your patients’ health while they […] The post Nursing Care Plan for Risk for Infection appeared first on NurseBuff.

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RN Julie Thompson Helps Little Boy Overcome Fear and Anxiety Before Surgery

Daily Nurse

Julie Thompson, a nurse at Van Diest Medical Center (VDMC) in Webster City, Iowa, helped a little boy overcome his fear and anxiety before surgery and was named the 2023 recipient of the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Daily Nurse is proud to honor Thompson as our Nurse of the Week , recognizing the super-human work Thompson provides for patients and families every day at VDMC.

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Nursing Groups Denounce AMA's Effort to Regulate Advanced Practice RNs

Health Leaders | Nursing

'The AMA is again adopting policies encouraging laws and regulations that impede competition and help their bottom line.' Nursing groups are denouncing the American Medical Association 's recent policy amendment calling for advanced practice RNs (APRNs) to be licensed and regulated jointly by the state medical and nursing boards. The policy amendment was passed by the AMA's House of Delegates (HOD), the policy-making body of the organization, during its annual meeting last week in Chicago.

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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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LGBTQIA+ Community Nursing Representation Is Essential

Minority Nurse

As LGBTQIA+ nurses celebrate June’s Pride Month, they continue to advocate for accessible and safe care for the LGBTQIA+ community and for a nursing workforce that represents the populations they serve. Jeff Day, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, CNEcl, who is chair of the nursing section of GLMA and a medical provider at Callen-Lorde a New York City-based community health center and a global leader in LGBTQIA+ healthcare, says a diverse nursing workforce is essential to good patient care, but it also make

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400 nurses travel to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to address unsafe working conditions

Becker's Hospital Review

Nurses have been calling for U.S. legislators to take action to address the national nurse staffing crisis for months to no avail. Almost 400 nurses traveled to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 15 to make sure Congress hears their message — loud and clear.

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Healthy workplaces, healthy nurses

American Nurse

Two healthcare systems take the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation mission to heart. Penn Medicine Princeton Health and Orlando VA Health Care System (OVAHCS) are making nurses wellness a priority with programs that incorporate physical and mental health. Penn Medicine Princeton Health Making staff wellness a part of a hospitals strategic plan ensures it becomes a… This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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Understanding Frontline ABVD in the Real World

Consult QD

Although frontline treatment for classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) is intended to be curative, a surprisingly high percentage of patients treated in the community setting receive subsequent therapy. This is one of many issues raised from a retrospective analysis of patients treated with ABVD in the real-world setting. Background In 2018, the RATHL study demonstrated that patients with advanced stage cHL could be treated with ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine) for two cyc

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Washington to Allow Nurses with Multistate Licenses to Begin Practicing in the State

Daily Nurse

Washington, which recently became the 40th jurisdiction to enact the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), will allow nurses holding an active, unencumbered multistate license (MSL) to begin practicing in the state on July 24. Additionally, as part of the NLC legislation , the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission will officially change its name to the Washington State Board of Nursing on the same date.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Georgia On My Mind

The Relentless School Nurse

I have been honored to speak at many school nursing conferences over the years. Most of them have been remote because of COVID and work restrictions. My school year is coming to an end like a tall glass of sweet tea, as I was able to travel to Savannah, Georgia and speak at Georgia Association of School Nurses (GASN) annual conference. From the moment I landed, to the moment I departed, the warm southern hospitality was extended to me with open arms.

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The Hidden Crisis: Unveiling the Mental Health Struggles of Teen Boys

Amercan Journal of Nursing

In today’s world, teenage boys are facing a crisis that often goes unnoticed: their mental health. Anxiety, depression, despair, and even suicidal thoughts plague young boys and young men alike. Shockingly, teenage boys and young men in the United States are more than twice as likely, and sometimes up to four times as likely , to die by suicide compared to their female counterparts.

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Nurse-Midwives Can Practice without Physician Supervision in North Carolina

Scrubs

After a decades-long fight, nurse-midwives will soon be able to practice without physician supervision in the state of North Carolina. The requirement is being removed as part of a 47-page abortion bill that recently passed the state legislature. The 416 midwives in the state won’t need physician supervision starting in October. Once the law has gone into effect, there will only be two states in the country that still require physician supervision of certified nurse-midwives, according to the Am

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Why addiction treatment is a growing field for nurses

American Nurse

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 2020 and 2030 careers for counselors in the fields of substance use, behavioral disorders, and mental health could grow by 23%. For nurses, this means many great opportunities exist for excellent, fulfilling roles in the field of addiction and mental health. As a psychiatric mental-health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) working at an inpatient detox and rehab facility, I can tell you that my job challenges me every day, but it is also incredi

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Attracting and Retaining Talent using Team Recognition

NRC Health

In this episode Amy Feeder, Customer Experience Program Manager at M Health Fairview and Jon Tanner, Program Director of Human Understanding at NRC Health join us to discuss the importance of team recognition and how it strengthens patient care. The post Attracting and Retaining Talent using Team Recognition appeared first on NRC Health.

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Healthy Work Environments Are Essential

Daily Nurse

It is well known that many U.S. healthcare organizations face a significant nurse staffing challenge, and as leaders and administrators seek solutions, we must emphasize an essential element of nurse recruitment and retention — establishing and sustaining healthy work environments (HWEs). The most recent “ National Nurse Work Environments” study , conducted in 2021 by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), shows that the health of nurse work environments across the country has

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BACB Supervision Requirements: What You Need to Know

Relias

Supervision is necessary to ensure that practitioners are correctly implementing services and are developing professionally. The Behavior Analysis Certification Board (BACB) requires supervision for those seeking to become Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts (BCaBA). The BACB also requires ongoing supervision for BCaBAs and for Registered Behavior Technicians (RBT).

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Top 10 Reasons to Start a Nurse-Owned Business

Empowered Nurses

Nursing is a noble profession that requires compassion, skill, and dedication to providing quality healthcare. However, many nurses are now venturing beyond traditional roles and embracing entrepreneurship by starting their own businesses. A nurse-owned business allows these healthcare professionals to combine their medical expertise with their entrepreneurial spirit.