May, 2025

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Ten Questions Nurse Managers Are Asking

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nurse Managers have one of the most challenging roles in healthcare today. They are at the frontline of care and usually among the first to witness trends in both the workforce and workplace. I pay close attention to the questions they ask during the leader development session […] The post Ten Questions Nurse Managers Are Asking appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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How to Improve Behavioral Health Equity

Relias

Achieving behavioral health equity is essential to ensuring that all individuals receive high-quality mental health care. Yet, persistent disparities continue to affect people across the country. These inequities are often fueled by stigma, implicit bias, and systemic barriers that hinder access to effective and culturally responsive services. As behavioral health providers, we have a critical role to play in closing these gaps.

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Healthcare Privacy and the Evolving Role of Nurses

Daily Nurse

Nurses are natural multitaskers, and now, a small part of their work includes helping protect patient privacy. According to the HIPAA Journal , over 133 million healthcare records were exposed in data breaches in 2023, and many of these incidents started with simple, avoidable mistakes. Thats why nurses are now considered part of the frontline in protecting patient privacy.

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The Growth Mindset of Self-Leadership

Diane Sieg

Mary, a self-proclaimed people-pleaser and chronic worrier, was feeling a lot of anxiety about a decision she wanted to make, fearful of making the wrong one. When I asked her the best way she could support herself, she immediately responded, I crave some time and space away to slow down, regroup, and just be. While Mary was very clear about what she needed, she was not clear how to get it, feeling completely responsible for the outcome of a future site visit.

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How to Start Virtual Care the Right Way: A Proven Roadmap for 2025 and Beyond

Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Nurse. Parent. Human. Why Self-Care Isn’t Optional When You Care for Everyone Else

Minority Nurse

Navigating a full-time nursing career while being a parent is tough. Caring for children is time-consuming and challenging, while working as a nurse requires professionals to be focused and on the job for long hours. It can be easy to burn out while overloaded with child and career responsibilities. Thats why prioritizing self-care can help you feel energized and rested.

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Keeping Your License Safe: Best Practices for Nurses When Passing Narcotics

Empowered Nurses

Youve made it through nursing school, passed the NCLEX, and earned your licensenow the real responsibility begins. One of the most high-stakes tasks you perform is administering narcotics. Whether in the ER, med-surg, ICU, or long-term care, passing controlled substances is routineand it’s also one of the fastest ways to put your license (and livelihood) at risk if you’re not careful.

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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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5 Proven Team Building Strategies That Improve Patient Outcomes

American Medical Compliance

Patients dont just benefit from great teamworkthey notice it. According to American Hospital Association , when patients perceive their care as safe, they are 2.5 to 3 times more likely to recommend the hospital to others. These perceptions are shaped not just by the medical treatment they receive, but by what they observecleanliness, hand hygiene, and how well the care team communicates and works together.

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Geisinger Moves Towards Virtual Nursing in Post-Acute Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

This health system's virtual nursing program has matured into a scalable and sustainable care model since last year. Virtual nursing is quickly becoming a staple of care delivery in nursing workflows. Creative program expansion is what will keep the ball rolling for health systems who want to continue exploring the technology's potential. Derek Godino, senior director of nursing at Geisinger , recently gave HealthLeaders an update on the health system's virtual nursing progress over the past yea

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Global Talent, Local Impact: Why International Nurse Recruitment Is More Than a Quick Fix

Daily Nurse

As healthcare continues to grapple with an anticipated nursing shortage , a growing number of organizations are looking beyond borders for a sustainable solution. By 2030, the U.S. is expected to be short more than 63,000 full-time registered nursesa number many experts believe is a conservative estimate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the shortage could exceed 125,000.

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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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Neurodiversity Affirming Care: What Does it Mean for Therapy?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Neurodiversity Affirming Care: What Does it Mean for Therapy? Neurodiversity-affirming care is a practice founded on accepting each persons differences and celebrating our individual strengths. 1 For those who are neurodivergent , the shift towards neurodiversity-affirming practices can come with a significant mental health boost by celebrating diverse ways of thinking and fostering a sense of belonging, rather than framing differences as challenges to be fixed. 2 Given the significant variabili

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Private Duty Nurse Job Description [Updated for 2025]

Registered Nursing

Private duty nursing is a growing and in-demand field offering a highly personalized approach to patient care. In 2025, as healthcare continues to expand beyond hospitals and into homes, the role of the private duty nurse has become more essential than ever, especially for patients needing long-term care, chronic condition support, or specialized attention within the comfort of their own residences.

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Is Now A Good Time to Start A Practice?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

If thats a question youve been asking yourself, you are not alone. Others are wondering too. Its a fair question to ask and not surprising, given the current state of politics, the economy, changes in healthcare, and the rise of artificial intelligence. The world feels unstable, and things seem to change from one day to the next. Yet most of us prefer consistency and feel unsettled and overwhelmed by too much change.

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ICU Nurse Angel Toney on Teamwork, Purpose, and Why ‘Together’ Is Her Real Superpower

Minority Nurse

When it comes to the power of nurses, Angel Toney, BSN, RN, is the real deala critical care force fueled by compassion, community, and the drive to pay it forward. As an ICU nurse at Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center , Toneys superpower isnt just handling high-stakes moments but weaving humanity into every heartbeat of her day. Her journey into nursing was born from personal heartache.

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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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Navigating the Shift to Value-Based Care: Investing in the Patient Experience

Relias

Many have analyzed the current state of healthcare and the key issues that plague our industry. From skyrocketing costs to subpar quality outcomes and unequal access to care, it is clear that the challenges are immense. In the past, healthcare payments from insurers came after providing services to patients, known as a fee-for-service model. However, this model did little to address health outcomes, access to care for vulnerable populations, and the increasing national healthcare expenditure.

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Quick interview with Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Mental Health Nursing

The Nurse Break

Before we get into Louise’s journey about mental health nursing, if youre a nursing student or nurse in Australia, youre currently reading this on your very own free, nurse-only community that we built for you. Its where you can join forums, connect, and share all things to do with nursing. Quickly join here in 30 seconds and then continue to read this article and all our other articles, webinars and resources.

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How to Retrain Your Brain: 8 Tips for Positivity and Success

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

How you communicate with yourself has a significant impact on how you feel about yourself and others. Positive self-talk has the power to retrain your brain and propel you to great heights. 1 Negative self-talk can bring you down, where you feel like giving up. If you are engaging in negative self-talkberating yourself about a bad grade or telling yourself you wont succeedits time to learn how to retrain your brain.

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Revised workers compensation Bill to be tabled in NSW after push back from unions

Nursing Review

A revised plan to up-end the NSW state workers compensation scheme will be tabled in parliament on Tuesday following widespread opposition from the states unions. Multiple unions representing teachers, nurses and a range of other fields rallied outside parliament on Monday morning in opposition to a draft proposal. Following that backlash and a hearing into the proposal, the Labor government will introduce an updated Bill on Tuesday to reform the scheme.

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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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What Is A Clearing House & Do You Need One?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Recently, we received a few questions about using a clearinghouse. Specifically, what is a clearinghouse, if its necessary, and whether NPs must use one. Clearinghouse, claims, billing The process of getting paid for the work you do can be confusing. So lets shed some light on it and try to untangle the pieces. What Is a Clearinghouse? A clearinghouse or, in healthcare, a medical billing clearinghouse, acts as a middleman between your practice and health insurance companies.

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The Voice You Want in Your Corner: How Nurse Juliane Ventura Powers Patient Advocacy Every Day

Daily Nurse

In the fast-paced world of the Intensive Rehab Unit at Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, Juliane Ventura, RN, doesnt just clock inshe shows up ready to be the voice her patients sometimes cant find for themselves. My nursing superpower is patient advocacy , says Ventura. I am a great voice for my patients. Born into a family where medical talk was just part of the dinner conversationher father was a family nurse practitioner for over 40 years, and her mother was an ICU nurseVentura seemed de

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Meet the “Tech Translator” Nurse Powering a Smarter, Kinder Future for Healthcare

Minority Nurse

Ali Morin speaks two languages fluently: nursing and tech and shes built a career around translating one into the other. As the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) at Symplr , Morins superpower is showing nurses how technology can make their lives easier and showing tech teams how real-world nursing actually works. I help nurses understand how tech can make their lives easier, and I show the tech team how it fits into nursing practice, she explains.

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Navigating New CMS Skin Substitute Updates: Essential Policies for Wound Care Providers

Relias

Wound care providers are entering a new compliance landscape, which will impact 10.5 million Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. with chronic wounds. Starting on January 1, 2026, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement new Local Coverage Determinations (LCD), which will affect the use of cellular and tissue-based products (CTPs), also known as skin substitute grafts, for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and venous leg ulcers (VLUs).

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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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Finding Your Voice: Empowering the Shy and Introverted Nurse

Diversity Nursing

Nursing is a profession built on care, compassion, and advocacy. We are the eyes and ears for our patients, the vital link between them, their families, and the medical team. But what happens when the very nature of our personality, a tendency towards shyness or introversion feels like a hurdle in effectively communicating and advocating? If you identify as a shy or introverted Nurse, know this, your inherent qualities are not weaknesses.

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Virtual Nursing Programs Need to Balance Growth With Value

Health Leaders | Nursing

Jefferson Health, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program, is strategically expanding its program as it looks for sustainability Jefferson Health launched its virtual nursing program in 2023, and is expanding its strategy to broaden the virtual observation footprint and include inpatient provider consults. Theyre also exploring opportunities to integrate other care team connections, such as diabetes educators.

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Is Your Practice Ready for Growth?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Are you ready to take your practice to the next level? And is your practice at a point where it can handle the growth? Yes? Then the question is, what will you do to grow your practice aside from your ongoing marketing efforts ? Which services and products can you add, and how can you bring more patients to your office to boost revenue? Many NP business owners seek ways to grow their practices, not only by seeing more patients, but also by diversifying their revenue streams beyond traditional pa

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Feeling Alone in Nursing School? 3 Smart Ways to Cope with Loneliness

Daily Nurse

Loneliness is a familiar feeling that affects many nursing students. Nursing school is challenging to navigate with the pressures of keeping up with grades and passing exams. It can almost feel like there’s no time to mingle with classmates and form lifelong bonds like on traditional college campuses. Some well-intended advice might be to “meet new people,” but nursing students are often overwhelmed by college work and clinicals, which can leave them with limited time to social

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How To Become a Sports Physical Therapist: Career Guide

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Sports physical therapy is a specialty within physical therapy (PT) that focuses on the treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of athletic injuries. 1 In addition to helping athletes recover faster and improve their performance, a sports physical therapist also plays a critical role in preventing injuries, especially those that may otherwise end an athletes career. 1 With athletes looking to boost their sports performance and healthcare professionals interested in monitoring wellness, sports p

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Why Healthcare Experience Matters More Than Ever Amid Medicare and Medicaid Uncertainty

Relias

In todays healthcare landscape, few things are certain especially when it comes to the future of Medicare and Medicaid. Ongoing policy debates, reimbursement shifts, and regulatory changes have created a climate of financial unpredictability for providers across the continuum of care. In the face of this uncertainty, one thing remains constant: the patient experience directly impacts an organizations reputation, revenue, and long-term viability.

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Healthscope has entered voluntary administration. Here’s what that means for hospitals and staff

Nursing Review

Australias second largest private hospital operator is in administration after lenders swooped to secure their $1.4bn in debt. A syndicate of banks and hedge funds that control Healthscopes loans placed the company into receivership after being handed control by its previous owner, Canadian asset management giant Brookfield, earlier this month. Healthscope chief executive Tino La Spina said there has been no impact on hospitals, staff or patients.

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Aesthetic Leadership in Nursing: A Theoretical Proposal for Rehumanizing Care Delivery

Nursing Inquiry

ABSTRACT Aesthetic leadership in nursing constitutes a disruptive conceptual proposal that questions and redefines traditional leadership models within healthcare settings. This article develops an original theoretical framework that incorporates the aesthetic dimension as a structuring category of care, emphasizing the role of beauty, presence, and relational ethics in transforming healthcare delivery.

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How Are CFOs Addressing Today’s Workforce Challenges?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Attendees at this weeks HealthLeaders CFO Exchange are addressing how they confront mounting financial and operational pressures, from labor shortages to unions to recruitment. CFOs gathered this week at the HealthLeaders CFO Exchange to discuss the pressures shaping the financial landscape of health systems. With margins still squeezed post-pandemic, the tone was less about recovery and more about resilience and planning, particularly around the workforce.

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Kaitlyn Donovan Masters the Ultimate Balancing Act—ICU Nurse, Graduate Student, and Division I Gymnast

Daily Nurse

Daily Nurse is proud to name Kaitlyn Donovan our Nurse of the Week , recognizing her exceptional ability to balance the rigorous demands of graduate nursing school, a full-time role as an ICU nurse, and a standout athletic career on Illinois State University’s Division I gymnastics team. Donovan, a South Lyon, Michigan native and current grad student at Illinois State’s Mennonite College of Nursing , flips, vaults, and balancesliterally and figurativelythrough a schedule that would o