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8 Tips for Nurse Leaders to Reduce Conflict

Post University

When people come together to work in a large environment, like a healthcare organization, conflicts will develop. Conflict in nursing can be particularly problematic, however, because it can have a direct impact on patient outcomes. If you are in a position of leadership in the healthcare and nursing fields, you need to understand what causes conflict and how to avoid it.

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Exploring the Qualities of a Successful Nurse Leader

Diversity Nursing

To truly excel in a Nurse leadership role, it takes a unique blend of qualities and attributes that empower Nurses to guide their teams and achieve positive patient outcomes. Here are some key traits and characteristics commonly associated with successful leadership: Strong Communication Skills: Effective Nurse leaders possess excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

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Do You Worry About Getting Audited?

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Just thinking about getting audited puts some practice owners in a state of panic. Why would someone audit me? What could they be looking for? What if they find something? What if I made a mistake? What could happen to my practice? How can I prepare for an audit? These might be just some of the thoughts that worry them. So… best to meet the medical audit monster head-on and look it squarely in the eye.

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BSN vs. ADN: Choosing the Right Path for Your Nursing Career

Every Nurse

HIGHER EDUCATION BSN vs. ADN: Choosing the Right Path for Your Nursing Career Updated July 4, 2023 by EveryNurse Staff Writers Choosing the right educational path is crucial for a successful nursing career. With the increasing demand for qualified nurses in the healthcare industry, understanding the differences between a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) becomes essential.

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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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Ten Things I Know for Sure About Nursing Leadership

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN We are in turbulent times in healthcare. Planning in nursing leadership today can be challenging. As one of my nurse leader colleagues recently told me – I keep learning that so much of what we have done in the past won’t work in the future. The world […] The post Ten Things I Know for Sure About Nursing Leadership appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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4 Ways Nurse Leaders Can Effectively Retain Staff

Health Leaders | Nursing

Your current method of rounding isn't one of them. One of the most common practices among nurse leaders to improve retention is employee rounding—so much so that the time-consuming practice has been “hard-wired” into leadership routines. Problem is, rounding as most nurse leaders conduct it, is generally useless, according to research by, in part, the American Organization of Nursing Leadership (AONL).

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Growing the Nursing Workforce

Health Leaders | Nursing

Schools of Nursing are ramping up their efforts to accommodate nursing students. Healthcare educators are taking decisive steps in growing and strengthening the U.S. nursing workforce, with efforts ranging from simplifying the transfer of credits between higher education institutions to creating alliances with hospitals or health systems to building more nursing schools.

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Employee Scheduling Mistakes You Should Avoid

Celayix

Employee scheduling is more complex than people tend to give it credit for. Here at Celayix , we realize that. In fact, our main goal here is to make scheduling easy! Every single project we work on and feature we develop has that one goal at the center. Most of the advice out there around employee scheduling is focused on all of the things you should be doing.

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Motivational Interviewing in Nursing

Nurse.com

Motivational interviewing (MI) as an emotionally intelligent, evidence-based approach to behavioral change gives patients more agency over their recovery. This is accomplished through open-minded conversations with healthcare professionals. What is motivational interviewing? Motivational interviewing was initially developed and put into practice by William R.

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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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A Male Nurse’s Insight into Healthcare Misogyny

The Nursing Site

As a male nurse, I find myself in a unique position within a profession often associated with female caregivers. It’s the perspective that has opened my eyes to the nuances of gender-based treatment by doctors and patients within the healthcare industry. Simply put, I’ve noticed that my female colleagues and I aren’t always treated the same way, despite performing the same duties with equal levels of expertise and dedication.

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“Visions” in ANS – A Unitary Theory of Healing Through Touch

Advances in Nursing Science

The current issue of ANS includes the new ANS section featuring works focused on the scholarship of Rogerian Nursing Science. This section is called “Visions,” the title of the Rogerian Nursing Society journal.

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New Study Highlights Potential Benefits of Ultrasound-Guided Prostate SBRT

Consult QD

Research led by a team of Cleveland Clinic experts demonstrates the feasibility and clinical efficiency of ultrasound-guided prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy using a 4D transperineal ultrasound system. These findings , which were recently published in the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics , suggest that real-time intra-fraction motion management could help improve delivery accuracy for prostate stereotactic body radiotherapy.

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Disability Pride Month

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

Happy Disability Pride Month to all disabled members of our JHSON community, our allies, and to those interested in learning more! The first July to celebrate our community was in 1990, when the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into federal law securing civil rights for disabled people across the nation. This was a huge… The post Disability Pride Month appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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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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ANA Enterprise News, July 2023

American Nurse

In celebration of National Nurses Month in May, American Nurses Association (ANA) President Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, made a special community visit with nursing students at Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing to energize and encourage them as they prepare for a career in nursing. This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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The Opioid Epidemic and Foster Care: The Opioid Epidemic’s Forgotten Victims

Relias

The opioid epidemic has continued to make a devastating impact across the United States. In 2010, officials reported 21,088 opioid related deaths. By 2018, this number had risen to 46,802. The next four years saw an even larger increase, with 68,630 opioid related deaths reported in 2022. Despite public conversation and consistent news coverage of the individuals affected by the opioid epidemic, there remains a large segment of society that is often overlooked: children and youth in foster care.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession. Coates works at a mental health crisis center as a senior professional evaluation nurse, preceptor to new nurses, Nursing Journal Club facilitator, and nursing department trainer for new staff.

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Just Getting Started: Alum Fernando Mena-Carrasco Back for PhD

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

Fernando Mena-Carrasco already possesses the qualifications to lead a health center, the experience and the degrees (MSN ’18, BSN ’15) to teach at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the drive to make an impact in community and mental health nursing. That would be a heck of a launchpad for most folks. Mena-Carrasco aims even… The post Just Getting Started: Alum Fernando Mena-Carrasco Back for PhD appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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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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Addressing gun violence in America

American Nurse

To: Ethics Advisory Board From: Worried about the world Subject: The impact of gun violence on public health After the latest mass shooting, my nurse colleague and I disagreed about what needs to be done to address gun violence. What guidance does the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (the Code) and the… This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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2023 Summer Reading List

Nurses Advocates

Welcome to the 2023 Summer Reading List. This year’s list is made up of a variety of books from family, friends and colleagues from Facebook and Linked In. There are individual books as well as series that were contributed by various people. I also added TV/Cable Series recommendations as this was requested last year. I hope you enjoy the 2023 Summer Reading List and use the suggestions to ‘get smarter’, relax, to get to sleep on a sleepless night and to just enjoy a good read at the beach, the

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Shift Swapping: A Schedulers Guide

Celayix

As a manager for hourly/shift workers, you have more than likely received a shift swapping request already this week, right? No matter how much time you invest in getting your schedule “just right”, things will always pop up. Whether it’s an unexpected event, a personal appointment, or even illness, shift swapping is bound to occur. Shift swapping is up there with one of the most frustrating tasks for any scheduler.

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Advocating for Implementing a Nurse Practitioner System in Korea

Penn Nursing

In April 2023, David (Hyunmin) Yu, MSN, RN, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, TCRN, Nurse Practitioner in the PPMC Medical Intensive Care Unit, was invited to Seoul, South Korea, to speak at the largest national critical care medicine conference in South Korea, organized by the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Boost your mood with food

American Nurse

Traditionally, dietary research focused large­ly on physical health, producing well-documented findings about how what we eat impacts our cardiovascular system, weight, and activity levels. In more recent years, however, we’ve learned more about how our diets affect mental health. This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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Nurses With Disabilities: Still a Lot to Give

Daily Nurse

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one out of every four American adults lives with a disability (approximately 61 million), and since there are four million nurses in the U.S., a large percentage of nurses are also likely living with disabilities. Beyond our borders, the World Health Organization estimates that 16 percent of the global population is disabled, perhaps as many as 1.3 billion people.

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New Blood Test May Help Identify Lung Cancers Earlier

Consult QD

Despite lung cancer screening being standard of care for those most likely to develop lung cancer, only 5-20% of patients move forward with the screening low-dose CAT scans. Of those patients, fewer than 40% continue on with annual scans. Researchers at Cleveland Clinic are hoping to change that, through a partnership with DELFI Diagnostics, who has developed a blood-based assay to screen for lung cancer.

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July 4th – It’s Complicated

Nursology

The complicated meanings of the July 4th holiday have been glaringly obvious for Black Americans for a couple of hundred years, but hidden and ignored for the most part by white Americans.

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Living one’s purpose through service

American Nurse

Currently celebrating its fifth year, the Jeannine Rivet National Leadership Award enhances community health and healthcare delivery by supporting emerging nurse leaders who integrate their health expertise with new civic and professional opportunities. The 2023 recipient of the Rivet Award, made possible through the generous contributions of the United Health Foundation in partnership with the… This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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Midwives Provide Better Birth Experiences Marked by Respect, Autonomy

Daily Nurse

According to a new study , people giving birth report more positive experiences when cared for by midwives in both hospitals and community settings than physicians. Additionally, those receiving midwifery care at home or birth centers reported better experiences than those in hospital settings. Physicians attend the majority of U.S. births (88%), while midwives attend 12% of births.

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Nurses at Forefront of New Abu Dhabi Cancer Center

Consult QD

After nearly a decade of intensive planning and preparation, an ultra-modern cancer center recently opened its doors at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi , where it will help eliminate the need for patients to travel abroad for lifesaving treatment. Not only will the new facility provide much-needed care to cancer patients in the Middle East, but it will also help recruit and train a specialized team of oncology nurses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Freedom to Speak Up reports hit record high with nurses submitting most

Nursing Times

The head of the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian scheme has said she is “disappointed” that people continue to face detriment when raising concerns at work, but aired optimism that more NHS staff are speaking up.

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Herpes zoster ophthalmicus

American Nurse

Astute triage and evaluation prompt fast action. Takeaways: Herpes zoster ophthalmicus occurs as a result of reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus. Without prompt identification and ophthalmology evaluation, permanent vision loss may occur. Caroline Carey*, a 62-year-old woman recently diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer, arrives at the emergency department (ED) with fatigue, facial pain, and a rash on the left side of her face.