October, 2024

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Teaching Nurses to Become More Effective Communicators

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I had a mentor who often said that the “soft skills” are frequently the “hard skills” to master. Communication is undoubtedly at the top of that hard skills list. Poor communication skills in healthcare environments can lead to medical errors, fragmented care, poor team coordination, and incivility. […] The post Teaching Nurses to Become More Effective Communicators appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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A Conversation With Derrick Belgarde

Josephine Ensign

Although only 1% of Seattle’s population identifies as Indigenous, “hundreds of years of colonization, systemic racism, broken treaties, forced reservations, and more have resulted in native peoples making up a startling 15% of Seattle’s homeless population,” as well as 32% of people experiencing chronic homelessness (quote from the Chief Seattle website).

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How To Close A Practice – The Right Way

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Healthcare practices open and close for many reasons and while we receive most questions about getting started in practice, we also receive questions about closing a practice. In the US, as you may know, most small businesses fail in the first 5 years. However, closing a practice isn’t always about failure. Life commitments may change; the business owner may move into the season of life where one looks toward retirement.

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Patient and Family’s Perspective of Hospice

The Nursing Site

As nurses, we understand that hospice is a peaceful way for patients to transition from this world, but what about our patients’ and families’ perspective? I recently had a patient who, over the last few months, had a significant change in her health. She was diagnosed with cancer and ended up with two major surgeries in a three-month time frame.

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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 to Work the Night Shift and Stay Healthy: 12 Essential Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

In many hospitals and long-term care facilities, newly hired nurses, many fresh off of their studies , are asked to work the night shift. While a few true night owls prefer this schedule, working through the night is challenging for most nurses. You might find yourself spending a chunk of your time off recovering from your time at work. There are effective ways for how to work the night shift and stay healthy— and caring for your own health will help you better care for others.

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Empathy’s Role in Managing Aggression in Assisted Living 

American Medical Compliance

Assisted living facilities are a lifeline for elderly and vulnerable individuals who need care and support in a safe, nurturing environment. Yet, even in these compassionate settings, caregivers often face the challenge of managing aggressive behaviors among residents. Imagine the case of Mrs. Stevens, a once gentle and kind woman who, after the onset of dementia, began exhibiting sudden outbursts of anger.

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How does policy function as a domestic violence intervention?

American Nurse

Although domestic violence frequently occurs within the private realm, it’s not a private matter. Domestic violence can involve physical, sexual, and psychological injuries of intimate partners or family members. It affects people of all ages and socioeconomic statuses, yet disproportionately affects historically marginalized groups, such as women of color.

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Are Nurses the Worst Patients? 

Daily Nurse

Nurses can sometimes be notorious for being the worst possible patients. Why are we frequently such bad patients, and can we do something to turn that situation around? Nurses Know Better Just the other day, I was talking with one of my patients about both shingles the disease and the shingles vaccine. When I mentioned that he might want to consider getting the shingles vaccine series, he asked me if I’d done it.

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Advocate redesigns the 'nurse manager' role

Becker's Hospital Review

Advocate Health recently reimagined the role of nurse managers, said Jane Dus, DNP, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing officer of the system's Midwest region.

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Strengths Based Leadership for Nursing Science: What is Your Nursing Leadership Legacy?

Nursology

Guest Contributor: Daniel J Pesut Strengths and Contributions As a coach and educator, I encourage people to learn and know their top five signature strengths as they develop nursing science and create a nursing leadership legacy (Pesut, 2001; 2004; 2022, 2023; Allison Napolitano & Pesut, 2015). I invite you to watch the Strengths Based Leadership … Continue reading Strengths Based Leadership for Nursing Science: What is Your Nursing Leadership Legacy?

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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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Nursing Burnout: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

No job is stress-free. Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high-stress by nature—making decisions that can impact patients’ lives— and need to take extra care to avoid the mental and physical condition known as nursing burnout. We outline what nurse burnout is, its risks, how to prevent it and how to address it if it’s happening to you. What Is Nurse Burnout?

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Developing an Executive Presence

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse manager recently spoke with me about a conversation with her CNO. Her long-term goal is to become a nurse executive. Her CNO seemed less than enthusiastic about her potential. When she asked why, the CNO told her she needed to work on her executive presence […] The post Developing an Executive Presence appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Your frontline is your bottom line

American Nurse

Put people first to achieve positive outcomes. The success of any organization requires the engagement and well-being of its frontline workers. In healthcare, nurses play an indispensable role in achieving superior clinical outcomes and overall organizational success. The power of putting people first To yield tangible results, healthcare organizations must intentionally put people first.

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‘I struggled to acknowledge that the incident was affecting me’

Nursing Times

In this article, Robert Culshaw describes how after being physically assaulted by a patient, he reflected on the incident.

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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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Training Healthcare Personnel to Better Serve Seniors and Disabled Patients

American Medical Compliance

A survey reveals that falls are the most frequent health issue affecting seniors in long-term care facilities. Interestingly, while 90% of caregivers feel confident in implementing fall prevention measures, only 60% have adequate knowledge to do so effectively. As the aging population grows, so does the demand for specialized healthcare tailored to the unique needs of seniors and individuals with disabilities, posing new challenges and responsibilities for healthcare providers.

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Words Matter – Including Those Left Unsaid

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. How often did we as children say these words to those who teased us? Yet we still felt the sting that unkind and malicious words imparted, especially when said by those we trusted. And it didn’t matter if the taunts were untrue—they still hurt. Words matter—take youth bullying, for example.

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New care model lowers length of stay, boosts retention at Providence

Becker's Hospital Review

Amid an influx of patients and extreme occupational burnout, Providence's Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, piloted a virtual nursing model in 2021. Years later, the system has proven the model's value as it garners retention, length-of-stay and safety achievements.

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When Expectations About Nursing Are Unmet

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During a recent workshop, I asked nurse managers what they felt was the biggest workforce problem they face today. Without hesitation, they talked about the mismatch between what new graduates expect nursing to be and what they find it to be when they enter practice. The late […] The post When Expectations About Nursing Are Unmet appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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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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The Urgent Need for Equity Over Hollow Equality Initiatives for Black Nurses and Healthcare Staff

Equality 4 Black Nurses

The UK’s healthcare system faces a deep-rooted racism issue, particularly impacting Black nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants. Despite “equality initiatives,” these workers still face subtle yet systematic tactics like gaslighting, tone policing, racial stereotyping, disproportionate discipline, and punitive NMC referrals, all of which serve to discredit and silence them.

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NMC recruits fitness to practise lead at GMC to help with caseload

Nursing Times

Read about the appointment of the General Medical Council's director of fitness to practice, Anthony Omo, to the UK nursing regulator.

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Emergency Nurses Association Launches Crucial Study on Workplace Violence

Daily Nurse

In a groundbreaking move, the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) is embarking on an extensive five-year study to tackle the alarming issue of workplace violence faced by emergency nurses. This initiative responds to a pressing global crisis that has long plagued healthcare settings, particularly emergency departments. Despite numerous small-scale studies shedding light on the issue, there has yet to be a comprehensive, long-term analysis that tracks workplace violence trends over time.

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The Rise of Nurse Practitioners: Revolutionizing Healthcare

Diversity Nursing

The healthcare landscape is evolving rapidly, and at the forefront of this transformation is the rise of Nurse Practitioners (NPs). With a growing shortage of physicians, an aging population , and increased demand for accessible care, NPs have become an integral part of the healthcare system. But with this rise, a question often comes up: Are Nurse Practitioners replacing Doctors?

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Nursing quality improving but still below prepandemic levels, study finds

Becker's Hospital Review

Patient safety in hospitals has improved since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to research published in Nursing Research.

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Participate in Technostress in Nursing Research

Emerging RN Leader

Little research exists about the stress of technology on nurses in practice today. I would encourage you and your staff to participate in this research. Study Link The post Participate in Technostress in Nursing Research appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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The Weather & Other Things

Life of a Nurse

A colleague who writes her own blog remarked how simple it is to avoid making blog entries. May was the last time I published a new post, and I must say, the summer passed quite nicely without blogging about it. Fall has decided to disguise itself as a late summer, with daytime temperatures in the twenties and nighttime temperatures dropping into the teens.

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How CMOs can combat workplace violence

NRC Health

Addressing workplace violence is an important element of the CMO role at health systems and hospitals, this associate CMO says. The post How CMOs can combat workplace violence appeared first on NRC Health.

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Haunted or Spooky Cities for Travel Nurses to Visit This Halloween

The Gypsy Nurse

Fall is a great time ; the leaves are changing, and the air is crisp. It is also the time of year for a haunted house, hayrides, and all things spooky. While haunted houses can be fun, for some, they are not as real as they would like. There are a lot of haunted or spooky cities in America. We have put together a list of some of the spookiest cities in America for travel nurses to visit.

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Helene Aftermath: Nurses Helping Nurses

Diversity Nursing

October 2, 2024 RALEIGH, N.C. – With recovery efforts just beginning in western North Carolina, the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) and the North Carolina Foundation for Nursing (NCFN) have launched a campaign to financially assist nurses impacted by Helene. The NCFN – Nurse Recovery Fund is designed to quickly distribute money directly to nurses suffering from loss or damages due to catastrophic flooding, wind, or landslides in the western parts of North Carolina.

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Yale New Haven Hospital wins $125K as Magnet award recipient

Becker's Hospital Review

The American Nurses Credentialing Center has named Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut as the winner of the 2024 ANCC Magnet Prize, earning the hospital a $125,000 award it will use to advance the development of a patient experience tool to improve care for psychiatric patients.

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Upskill Your Leaders with the Nuts and Bolts Course

Emerging RN Leader

We are proud to partner with the New York ONL to present the Nuts and Bolts of Nursing Leadership. This program is a great introduction to leadership for current, new, or prospective Assistant Nurse Managers, Team Leaders, Clinical Managers, or Charge Nurses. You don’t have to be a member of NY ONL to attend. Registration […] The post Upskill Your Leaders with the Nuts and Bolts Course appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Seeing Nurse Unseen and why we tell nursing stories

American Nurse

October marks Filipino American History Month (FAHM), first celebrated in 1992. Officially recognized by the U.S. Congress in 2009, FAHM had its first White House celebration under President Obama in 2015. Although the complex ties between the Philippines and the United States are explored in Stanley Karnow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines , understanding Filipino American history also means recognizing the vital role of Filipino nurses

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CQC failings prompt new patient safety review

Nursing Times

Read about a scathing review of the Care Quality Commission and why the government has responded with a new patient safety probe.

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How Hard Is Nursing School? Five Things You Should Know

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Is it hard to become a nurse? Yes. Will it be worth the effort? It will be. If you’re thinking about getting an associate degree or bachelor’s in nursing—or if you’re a working registered nurse (RN) who’s contemplating earning your graduate degree—it’s normal to wonder, “Is nursing school hard?”. Nursing requires more dedication than many other careers.