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The Dark Side of Medicare Advantage Plans

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Recently an NPBO Member shared with me a report on Medicare Advantage plans and the increasing amount of prior authorizations that are being required with Advantage plans. But that is just one disadvantage of these plans… If you, a family member, or a friend receive Medicare, you’re well aware of the uptick in marketing (aggressive marketing) before each annual renewal period.

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Nursing School Enrollments Now Down

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN The nation celebrates nurses this week. Yet sadly, all is not well with the profession. Last week, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing released some concerning nursing school enrollment data. The number of students in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs decreased by 1.4% in 2022, ending 20 […] The post Nursing School Enrollments Now Down appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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LPN Programs Near You

The Nursing Site

My name is Amanda Brandt, and I’m a registered nurse with prior experience as an LPN. Throughout my nursing career, I’ve met many aspiring nurses who were eager to pursue their dreams of becoming a nurse, but didn’t know where to start. That was my inspiration to design the website, LPN Programs Near Me. Attending an LPN program is a great first step for someone interested in becoming a nurse, and is a path I always recommend aspiring nurses to explore.

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Vitamin D: A Metabolic Bone Disease Perspective

Consult QD

This article is reprinted without references from the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine (February 2023, 90 (2) 91-92; DOI: [link] The open-access and fully referenced original article is available at [link]. By Bruce Long, MD, FACR, BS Pharm In the February 2023 issue of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, Antonelli and colleagues present an important reminder that vitamin D levels are lowered during inflammation, behaving as a negative acute-phase reactant.

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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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Mahoney, Thoms, Franklin: Black Nurses and Reformers to Remember

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Nursing is a challenging profession that requires expertise, dedication, and compassion. Black nurses have made significant contributions to the field, yet their stories often go untold. In this second post in a four-part series for this Nurses Month (here’s the first post ), I continue to highlight the achievements of Black nurses who have worked to provide quality care despite discrimination and prejudice.

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Nurses Make a Difference…

The Nursing Site

Nurses make a difference… Happy Nurses Day and Nurses Month! I know I’m a day late, but I had minor surgery and slept the day away. Had wonderful nursing care!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO! The post Nurses Make a Difference… first appeared on The Nursing Site.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Warning, This is Hard to Watch – “Joaquin’s First School Shooting”

The Relentless School Nurse

Mission of Change the Ref: Shifting America’s social response to gun violence, by uniting creativity, activism, disruption, and education. Patricia and Manuel Oliver’s son Joaquin was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018. They have been on a five year journey of activism since their son was murdered along with 13 other students and 3 staff.

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A Model of Care for Today and Tomorrow

Consult QD

Healthcare has seen significant change in recent years. The ways clinicians care for patients is different, patient and caregiver expectations are higher and staffing shortages and turnover are more prevalent. For many organizations, nursing models of care, which define how nurses and support staff deliver care, no longer align with the current environment.

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Acute mesenteric ischemia

American Nurse

Your knowledge and quick action aid a positive outcome. Takeaways: With a mortality rate exceeding 50%, acute mesenteric ischemia requires prompt nursing identification and vascular intervention. Most patients experience acute onset of abdominal pain out of proportion to a physical examination, nausea, vomiting, and melena. Prompt surgical evaluation is necessary to identify, minimize, and prevent irreversible intestinal damage.

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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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Nurse Staffing Standards Act Is First Step in Solving Nursing Shortage

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Planning to leave the profession. In my current position as faculty in a university DNP program, I hear from my students about caring for overwhelming numbers of patients and fearing for their patients’ safety and health. The nursing shortage continues, with no end in sight. Working nurses are suffering burnout from caring for so many patients that they know nursing care is being missed.

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VA Nurse Brings Her Baby Goats to Work for National Nurses’ Week

Scrubs

Is there a goat in the house? In addition to being a VA nurse, Mary Jordan is known as a lover of baby goats. She brings her furry farmland friends to the hospital where she works every year to celebrate National Nurses’ Week. The staff at Patient Care Services at Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, Missouri lined up in the adjacent lawn to play with a group of baby Nigerian dwarf goats.

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Nurses Month: A Time to Reflect on Your Career

Nurses Advocates

The month of May has been designated Nurses Month to recognize Nurses for the work they do. It is a good time to reflect on your career. As a nurse since 1973, I have had an incredible career. As a nurse leader, I have been privileged to educate and share insights on trends, issues, and challenges that impact us all at one time or another. I started as a Licensed Practical Nurse as a ‘floor nurse’ working on a 64-unit men’s ward, where I was responsible for administering medica

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Stopping workplace violence

American Nurse

The public witnessed the many challenges nurses faced during the peak 
of the COVID-19 pandemic, but other longstanding difficulties aren’t widely known, including workplace violence (WPV). This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only. Visit the site and log in/register to read. The post Stopping workplace violence appeared first on American Nurse.

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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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Nurses, Go Ahead and Ask for More! 

Minority Nurse

Yes, I said it. It’s time that nurses put nurses first! This is our week, our month, shoot, it’s even our year. Come on. Let’s go. Ask for what you want both in your professional life and personal life. The world knows that we deserve more, and we deserve the best. We work hard, so we need to take care of ourselves. We give, give, and give and it is time to receive.

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The Best and Worst Gifts Nurses Received for Nurses Week

Scrubs

Nurses’ Week is all about showing providers some much-needed love and appreciation for their work, and for many nurses, that means getting a gift from a patient, colleague, employer, or loved one. But not all gifts are made equally. We asked our community of nurses to share their best and worst gifts from Nurses’ Week and, oh boy, did they deliver. Some are incredibly thoughtful and touching, while others are downright strange, and maybe even a little insulting.

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Nurses Making a Difference, Touching Lives, and Changing the World 

Daily Nurse

Nurses are givers, and most will agree that they didn’t join the profession for the high salaries, fancy clothes, sexy shoes, or awesome accessories. Instead, nurses are more likely to say they chose nursing because they wanted to help people. Some will tell stories of caring for a beloved family member and how that inspired them to a life of service as a healthcare professional.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Celebrating School Nurse Day 2023 with a Poem

The Relentless School Nurse

Nurse Holly is one of the administrators of the School Nursing Facebook page. The page has grown to almost 18,000 school nurses over the last few years. It is an active and vibrant community where school nurses gather for information, advice and support. Holly is dedicated to supporting school nurses in all seasons of their careers. She is a creative, who uses her many talents to educate the public about health topics.

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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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2023 Nurses Month – Week 2 – Giveaway

American Nurse

American Nurse wants to thank you for all you do. Our nurse heroes have shared stories and in-depth accounts of how the COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted nurses and the healthcare industry. Please enjoy a complimentary viewing of American Nurse Heroes by filling out the form below: American Nurse Heroes - Nurses Month 2023 First Name * Last Name * Email * Title * Administrator Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Assistant Director of Nursing Assistant Nurse Manager BSN Nurse Cardiovascular Nu

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Florence Nightingale Visits Hospital for National Nurses’ Week

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The originator of modern nursing is back from the grave! At least for a few hours, that is. The staff at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, Illinois got a surprise for Nurses’ Week when historical impersonator Megan Wells arrived in full character as Florence Nightingale. Known as the “The Lady with the Lamp” for treating patients in all kinds of unsanitary, dim conditions, Nightingale passed away in 1910, but her spirit lives on in the healthcare community.

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National Nurses Week 2023: Chief Nurse Van McGrue Freely Gives Younger Nurses Their Due

Health Leaders | Nursing

A 5-part series celebrating nurse leaders who have claimed their place as a strategic partner in their organization's leadership. Editor’s note: Hospitals and health systems have seen a steady evolution of chief nursing officers taking a seat at the executive strategy table, guiding and participating in operations and policies. HealthLeaders is featuring five of those nurse executives to discuss their experience as an operational leader.

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Last-Minute Advice – Preparing Your Students for the NCLEX

Minority Nurse

May signifies everything we look forward to–time for graduations, pinning ceremonies, vacations, and anticipation for warmer weather; however, for the recent nursing graduate, May also signifies a time for preparation for one of the most important exams they may ever take, NCLEX. Graduates can look forward to taking the NCLEX if they remember PUPS. (More on PUPS below).

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New Fellowships

Penn Nursing

Four Penn Nursing professors have been selected for new fellowships from national organizations in their respective fields. Congratulations to José A. Bauermeister, Diane Spatz, Abigail Howe-Heyman, and Dawn Elizabeth Bent.

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10 Nurses Will Ring the Nasdaq Closing Bell to Celebrate Nurses’ Week

Scrubs

The nurses are going to Wall Street. The digital startup known as connectRN has been invited to ring the Nasdaq Closing Bell on Friday, May 12, the last day of National Nurses’ Week 2023. Ten nurses will be there to close out another week of trading on the floor. It’s just the financial industry’s way of saying thank you to the people who work in healthcare.

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Only One-Third of Surveyed Nurses Plan to Remain in the Profession

Health Leaders | Nursing

Most nurses blame staffing shortages for poor mental health. Only one-third of nurses surveyed plan to remain in the profession for the foreseeable future and about one-fourth plan to leave in one or two years from now, a new report warns. Insufficient staff to meet demand—the worst part of the profession, they say—creates burnout and overwork, according to more than half of nurses surveyed in a study conducted by Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E.

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Flying Eye Hospital – Saving Sight Around the World

Minority Nurse

Angela Purcell, a nurse making a difference, has helped save patients’ sight and taught others how as part of the Flying Eye Hospital. Purcell didn’t start her career expecting to help save people’s eyesight around the globe. In fact, she didn’t even start working as a nurse until an amazing experience changed her life permanently. Purcell, now an RN with an Ophthalmic Nurse diploma and the Associate Director of Nursing for Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital , began her career as a leg

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5 Tips On How To Choose The Best Online Nursing Course

NurseBuff

A career in nursing can be both rewarding and challenging. Nurses play a vital role in the healthcare system, providing compassionate care to patients and working alongside other healthcare professionals to promote health and wellness. If you are interested in pursuing a career in nursing but don’t have the time or resources to attend traditional […] The post 5 Tips On How To Choose The Best Online Nursing Course appeared first on NurseBuff.

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10 Inspiring Quotes That’ll Make You Even More Proud to Be a Nurse!

Scrubs

“I know I will be a good nurse, but I want to be more than that. I want to be a nurse who makes a change in my community; one that improves the lives of my patients through quality, compassionate, culturally centered patient care. That is what being a nurse means to me.” – Jaime Contreras , Riverside Community College “As a nurse I will have many responsibilities, but I need to take time to build relationships with patients, communicate effectively, and learn how I can best treat the person base

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National Nurses Week 2023: Chief Nurse Carolyn Booker Endured 'Trial by Fire' as a New Leader

Health Leaders | Nursing

A 5-part series celebrating nurse leaders who have claimed their place as a strategic partner in their organization's leadership. Editor’s note: Hospitals and health systems have seen a steady evolution of chief nursing officers taking a seat at the executive strategy table, guiding and participating in operations and policies. HealthLeaders is featuring five of those nurse executives to discuss their experience as a strategic partner in their organization’s leadership.

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A Nurse Making a Difference: Nurse Alice Benjamin

Minority Nurse

You Make a Difference: such simple words to write but a challenge to put into practice. So I ’ m thrilled to introduce you to a nurse living up to the mantra. Meet Alice Benjamin, or Nurse Alice, as she ’ s known to many and how she ’ s making a difference in her patient ’ s lives, the surrounding community, and the nursing profession every day. Nurse Alice’s personal experience of her father dying in the ER from cardiac arrest while awaiting care inspired her to become the best cardiac nurse in

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The 6 Things it Takes To Be a Nurse

The Gypsy Nurse

Medely provided this article. At one point, everyone has had their lives touched by a nurse. Whether it’s the school nurse that let you lay down in her office when you had a headache, the nurse that was with you through the delivery of your first baby, or the nurse that held your hand when a parent or grandparent was in the hospital. Nurses are tireless, compassionate, and passionate workers that are there when it’s time to take care of ourselves and our loved ones, and they are a gr