December, 2021

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How to Adapt to Extend Your Career in Medicine

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

The realm of medicine is changing – accept it or be left behind. What worked 20 years ago is no longer standard of care, and the same expiration applies to knowledge. Medicine claimed several decades of your life to reach the starting blocks and carved deep scars along the way. The clock ticks at a faster clip for all, but despair does not apply.

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Still dirty

EDNurseasauras

Sometimes the past kind of hits you in the face, even if you are wearing a mask. At a routine Dr. visit, I encountered just such a blast from the past. As we were talking about what I was retired from, the nurse disclosed that she was also a former ER nurse, albeit management (*cough*b t*cough) turned infection control. As we played the six degrees of separation game, it occurred to me that it was this very nurse Then I laughed for a half hour.

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ARE MY RETIREMENT ASSETS PROTECTED FROM CREDITORS?

Elder Care Matters

Texas offers excellent creditor protection compared to other states. Our Texas bankruptcy laws are better than the federal ones when it comes to protections, but retirement is protected even under the federal program. Until recently, retirement benefits were not protected from long term care. There are still some problems with protecting them from it, depending… The post ARE MY RETIREMENT ASSETS PROTECTED FROM CREDITORS?

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Top 5 Tips for the ANCC & AANP Family Nurse Practitioner Exams

Board Vitals - Nursing

Are you getting ready to take your Family Nurse Practitioner Exam? Getting started in studying can be daunting. You need to prioritize time to study and prepare — and take practice questions! The best thing to do to get started is to narrow down what exam you’re going to be planning for. We’ve broken down the ANCC and AANP exams for you so you can find the right fit. 5 Tips for Successful Studying 1.

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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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NPHub’s 5-Point Promise: How We Help NP Students Secure Preceptors

NP Hub

NPHub’s 5-Point Promise: How We Help NP Students Secure Preceptors At NPHub, … The post NPHub’s 5-Point Promise: How We Help NP Students Secure Preceptors appeared first on NPHub.

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The Key to Mitigating Burnout is Understanding Your Emotions

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

Before others can understand you, you need to understand what’s going on within yourself. In the first installation of this topic , we discussed clues to burnout. In this second part, you will learn strategies to deal with the chaos. Knowing about an issue is only half the battle. A good tactician has a clear picture of the obstacle, allowing a solid battle plan to develop.

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Home Health Referrals: Grow Your Network

Relias

It’s clear that home-based care is experiencing a growth phase. That’s certainly no secret to agency executives looking to take advantage of the boom. But to successfully capture more home health referrals and benefit from this growth, providing superior care in the home is essential. Cultivating your referral sources for home health requires attention to three pivotal elements: Care quality.

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The Importance Of Self-Care For Nurses

Carlow Today & Tomorrow

Self-care encourages better physical, mental and emotional well-being. However, it is something many nurses neglect to do. Nursing is a stressful profession. The stress increases when health crises, like the pandemic we recently experienced, happen. Nurses are on the frontlines, putting their health at risk while they treat critically ill people. This is typical of what nurses do: caring for others before they care for themselves.

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To Meditate, Practice Unreasonable Happiness!

Minding The Bedside

Is happiness unrealistic? Can you really be happy with the things that you chase after in life? Is there a way to achieve a happiness that remains regardless of challenges in your life? What I've found is that through my meditation practice, I'm able to return, again and again, to a state of happiness despite troubles and challenges that may be occurring in my life.

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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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Will A Prenuptial Agreement Help When Planning To Qualify For Medicaid?

Elder Care Matters

Nowadays, with so many advances in medical care, our seniors are living longer. While that leaves many more years for families to create memories and shared experiences, have you considered that it also means that our senior family members may require more full-time nursing care as they age? Long-term care can be incredibly expensive which… The post Will A Prenuptial Agreement Help When Planning To Qualify For Medicaid?

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Good Retention Requires Strong DEI Culture

Diversity Nursing

Creating a workplace with a strong Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive culture is not only the right thing, it’s also crucial for your retention and improving patient care. A study from Press Ganey shows health systems with strong Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) values have less risk of staff potentially leaving the organization. The study also found: Healthcare organizations had twice as many employees at risk of leaving if the workforce perceived diversity and equity weren’t prioritized ve

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Recognizing and Mitigating Burnout in the New Year

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

The holidays can bring a mixed bag of emotions for everybody, healthcare professionals alike. The season’s busyness often obscures the overlap of holiday festivities, obligations, and negative feelings. Physicians are trained to suppress feelings and ignore fatigue. A professional demeanor in difficult situations is what patients generally expect.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

Relias

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health. “Home health is in the best shape it has been in the many decades that I have done this work,” he said.

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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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Stressed Out By Your Budget? Let’s Reframe the Budget From Stressor to Most Valuable Tool

Inspire Nurse Leaders

Stressed Out By Your Budget? Let’s Reframe the Budget From Stressor to Most Valuable Tool Lori Armstrong DNP, RN NEA-BC December 6, 2021 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Are you a nurse leader who gets stressed by your budget? You are not alone. The unique position of a nurse leader combines business management with clinical expertise. Often, nurse leaders are as uncomfortable incorporating financial and operational strategies into patient care as visiting a new country 一 the language is new, the cultu

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Meditate on Suffering – The Power of Engaging What Bothers Us

Minding The Bedside

Imagine meditating while you're suffering, what does that feel like? What if, instead of trying to run away from your disturbing emotions, you engage with them and see them for what they really are, temporary and impermanent? How do you think your life would change if you were able to be with whatever arises within your mind in a state of grace and peace, instead of constantly running after the good thoughts and fleeing what makes you suffer?

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Can You Answer All 6 of these ANCC FNP Practice Questions?

Board Vitals - Nursing

When you are preparing for the ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) exam, taking sample questions is a great way to test your knowledge. We’ve created an interactive practice test using 6 highly-rated questions from the BoardVitals ANCC FNP question bank , giving you a taste of what to look forward to when you decide to take the plunge. Good luck!

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Tips For Boosting Hospital Staff Morale

Diversity Nursing

Working in a healthcare setting can be a high-stress environment. Especially during a time of crisis, many healthcare workers face burnout, worry, anxiety, and grief. Here are some ideas for improving hospital staff's morale. Mental Health Support. Healthcare workers understand the importance of self-care and mental health. It may be a good idea to offer mental health PTO days so they have an opportunity to see to their own wellness needs.

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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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How Healthcare Employers are Implementing Wellness Principles into the Workplace

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

To say the Covid-19 pandemic has changed everyday life and work culture would be an understatement. For physicians of any specialty, this ongoing modern-day plague has challenged us beyond comprehension. While the fallout from this pandemic will not be entirely known for years to come, there are some more immediate changes to the practice of medicine that have come as necessary adaptations in the face of social and occupational restrictions.

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Nursing Pragmatics: Your Shoes of Preference?

ER Nurses

There was a time when nursing shoes were a distinct white flat. Before that, a distinct white mid-low heels. Crocs may be comfortable but who wants an open toe anyways? What shoe do you use at work? The popular choice is of course the day long sneaker. The choice of footwear is important since you're on your feet all day (plus it saves your back). Choices?

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I’ve continuously been allocated Covid positive wards. I’m Black & I am high risk, give me a break

Equality 4 Black Nurses

What’s your current job role? I’m a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) in an adult high dependency unit and I was training during the first peak of Covid-19 and worked full time on the NHS frontline caring for Covid positive service users. What was your personal experience with Covid in a healthcare setting? I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 9 years old, which is a neurological issue.

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For Black Friday…Meditate! How to Use Meditation to Spend Less…

Minding The Bedside

Well, it's that time of year again. Time to.meditate? No, shop! Or, is it time to meditate on why we shop, why we consume hoping to find some outer reward to our thirst for something.new, different? Time to find happiness in.Target? Nordstroms? Amazon? How often have you felt an urge to go out and buy [.] The post For Black Friday…Meditate! How to Use Meditation to Spend Less… appeared first on Minding The Bedside.

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30 Tik Tok Nurses You Need in Your Feed in 2022

Nursing Uncensored

The nurse game is strong on Tik Tok - It’s only been the last few months that I’ve dug into the platform and fallen head-over-heels with #nursetok as it’s been aptly named. Nurse Tok has become a staple of my day - it’s like a major news network to me now. I feel like these nurses I’ve never met are my allies, my friends, my kin. At this risk of burying you in cheesy s**t, this has enriched my life.

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Do Your DSPs Have the Skills and Motivation They Need?

Relias

Broadly speaking, staff training is about changing patterns of behavior from an over-reliance on habit and personal experience to the consistent implementation of best practices. Unfortunately, staff training often falls short of this goal. Why? Direct Support Professionals (DSPs), like most adult learners, want to be engaged in their job training and learn new skills best by building on their life experiences.

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How To Stop the Martyrs From Being Martyrs

Healthy Workforce Institute

Do you work with a martyr? You know, someone who constantly thinks they do more than everyone else? Someone who spends all their time and energy comparing their workload to everyone else’s and always seems to have it harder. They are always “sacrificing” their time, energy, lunch break-whatever the case may be to do everyone else’s job. Because they’re great and everyone else is – not.