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What is a Nurse Navigator?

NexNurse

Nurse navigators are relatively new in the field of health care. But they are becoming an essential part of the patient care experience. This article defines what a nurse navigator is, the requirements for becoming one, and what nurse navigators do. What is a Nurse Navigator? Nurse navigators may also be called care coordinators, case managers, or patient advocates.

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A Day in the Life of a Cardiovascular ICU Nurse Practitioner

Board Vitals - Nursing

People often ask me what I do as a Nurse Practitioner in the Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CVSICU) because the role is ambiguous to much of the general population. First established in 1965, the role of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) was developed in response to a provider shortage, to help care for the pediatric population in rural and urban America.

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Meditation Tip of the Week: Meditate…Out of the Box!

Minding The Bedside

In this tip, we'll discuss how not to get caught in a box in how we meditate. Meditation is about thinking, and practicing, out of the box! The post Meditation Tip of the Week: Meditate…Out of the Box! appeared first on Minding The Bedside.

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Nurses Aren't Interchangeable

ER Nurses

In the hardest hit regions of COVID-19, mostly due to bad public health policies, redeployment of nursing staff is one tool to staff ICUs. ER nurses are often the first to moved. But the skills aren't interchangeable. Each discipline has very specific competencies. Care suffers when different disciplines need to extend themselves. Here's another thread on the subject.

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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 leadership matters: Clinical nurses' perceptions of leader behaviors affecting their work environment

Nursing Management

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Do You Find it Difficult to Meditate? Don’t Fool Yourself, Meditation Isn’t Easy…Yet!

Minding The Bedside

What you may find as you begin to meditate is that many of your habits of being distracted seem to get worse. You'll sit down to begin your daily practice of 20-minutes and before you know it, you've gotten up from your cushion or couch and are writing down your shopping list. Resistance happens because we're not used to just observing our usual mind, the normal mind that delights in being distracted with thoughts and emotions.

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