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How To Close A Practice – The Right Way

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Healthcare practices open and close for many reasons and while we receive most questions about getting started in practice, we also receive questions about closing a practice. In the US, as you may know, most small businesses fail in the first 5 years. However, closing a practice isn’t always about failure. Life commitments may change; the business owner may move into the season of life where one looks toward retirement.

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Teaching Nurses to Become More Effective Communicators

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I had a mentor who often said that the “soft skills” are frequently the “hard skills” to master. Communication is undoubtedly at the top of that hard skills list. Poor communication skills in healthcare environments can lead to medical errors, fragmented care, poor team coordination, and incivility. […] The post Teaching Nurses to Become More Effective Communicators appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Patient and Family’s Perspective of Hospice

The Nursing Site

As nurses, we understand that hospice is a peaceful way for patients to transition from this world, but what about our patients’ and families’ perspective? I recently had a patient who, over the last few months, had a significant change in her health. She was diagnosed with cancer and ended up with two major surgeries in a three-month time frame.

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How to Work the Night Shift and Stay Healthy: 12 Essential Tips

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

In many hospitals and long-term care facilities, newly hired nurses, many fresh off of their studies , are asked to work the night shift. While a few true night owls prefer this schedule, working through the night is challenging for most nurses. You might find yourself spending a chunk of your time off recovering from your time at work. There are effective ways for how to work the night shift and stay healthy— and caring for your own health will help you better care for others.

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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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Are Nurses the Worst Patients? 

Daily Nurse

Nurses can sometimes be notorious for being the worst possible patients. Why are we frequently such bad patients, and can we do something to turn that situation around? Nurses Know Better Just the other day, I was talking with one of my patients about both shingles the disease and the shingles vaccine. When I mentioned that he might want to consider getting the shingles vaccine series, he asked me if I’d done it.

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When Expectations About Nursing Are Unmet

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During a recent workshop, I asked nurse managers what they felt was the biggest workforce problem they face today. Without hesitation, they talked about the mismatch between what new graduates expect nursing to be and what they find it to be when they enter practice. The late […] The post When Expectations About Nursing Are Unmet appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Nursing Burnout: What It Is and How to Prevent It?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

No job is stress-free. Clinical nurses work in an environment that is high-stress by nature—making decisions that can impact patients’ lives— and need to take extra care to avoid the mental and physical condition known as nursing burnout. We outline what nurse burnout is, its risks, how to prevent it and how to address it if it’s happening to you. What Is Nurse Burnout?

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Words Matter – Including Those Left Unsaid

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. How often did we as children say these words to those who teased us? Yet we still felt the sting that unkind and malicious words imparted, especially when said by those we trusted. And it didn’t matter if the taunts were untrue—they still hurt. Words matter—take youth bullying, for example.

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Participate in Technostress in Nursing Research

Emerging RN Leader

Little research exists about the stress of technology on nurses in practice today. I would encourage you and your staff to participate in this research. Study Link The post Participate in Technostress in Nursing Research appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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New care model lowers length of stay, boosts retention at Providence

Becker's Hospital Review

Amid an influx of patients and extreme occupational burnout, Providence's Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, piloted a virtual nursing model in 2021. Years later, the system has proven the model's value as it garners retention, length-of-stay and safety achievements.

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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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The Urgent Need for Equity Over Hollow Equality Initiatives for Black Nurses and Healthcare Staff

Equality 4 Black Nurses

The UK’s healthcare system faces a deep-rooted racism issue, particularly impacting Black nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants. Despite “equality initiatives,” these workers still face subtle yet systematic tactics like gaslighting, tone policing, racial stereotyping, disproportionate discipline, and punitive NMC referrals, all of which serve to discredit and silence them.

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How CMOs can combat workplace violence

NRC Health

Addressing workplace violence is an important element of the CMO role at health systems and hospitals, this associate CMO says. The post How CMOs can combat workplace violence appeared first on NRC Health.

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CQC flags corridor care, nurse shortages and maternity issues

Nursing Times

Read about the findings of the CQC's 2023-24 State of Care report, including issues with corridor care, maternity and nurse staffing.

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Nursing quality improving but still below prepandemic levels, study finds

Becker's Hospital Review

Patient safety in hospitals has improved since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic but has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to research published in Nursing Research.

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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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Contributed Content: How Nurses Can Practice Self-Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

Prioritizing self-care is crucial for maintaining well-being and can help reduce compassion fatigue and lower stress levels, says this nurse educator. Editor's note: Maryn Moreni MSN-FNP, RN, CNE, is the associate professor of nursing faculty at the Arizona College of Nursing. As a nurse educator, I teach students about wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention for their patients.

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How CMOs can combat workplace violence

NRC Health

Addressing workplace violence is an important element of the CMO role at health systems and hospitals, this associate CMO says. The post How CMOs can combat workplace violence appeared first on NRC Health.

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The Power of Five Wishes: Nurse Knowing During End-of-Life Care

Nursology

Contributor: Judith Pare The universality of death is a widely accepted phenomenon that many nurses deal with on an almost daily basis. The World Health Organization (2005) has stressed the importance of expert palliative and hospice care as a critical caring global need for people with heart failure, cancer, and other progressive terminal illnesses.

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Yale New Haven Hospital wins $125K as Magnet award recipient

Becker's Hospital Review

The American Nurses Credentialing Center has named Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut as the winner of the 2024 ANCC Magnet Prize, earning the hospital a $125,000 award it will use to advance the development of a patient experience tool to improve care for psychiatric patients.

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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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NMC announces search for new chair

Nursing Times

Read about the Nursing and Midwifery Council's call for candidates to become its new chair of council after Sir David Warren leaves.

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Mental health matters for staff safety in new hospital program

Penn Medicine News

Patients receive compassionate care, and staff feel safer, with the help of a new Behavioral Response Team for urgent needs at Chester County Hospital.

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A journey of healing and growth: one CNA’s path to Providence after battling cancer

Providence

For many, life’s most challenging moments become the catalyst for change and growth. This was the case for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Ekaterina, who made a major life change after surviving cancer. Read on to learn how this magnetic CNA from Moscow, Russia, found her way to the healthcare industry and Providence in Polson, Montana.

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Nurse manager retention: 5 things to know

Becker's Hospital Review

Nurse manager turnover rates are highest within the first four years of leadership, suggesting a crucial opportunity for health systems to boost retention by investing and supporting nurses who are new to managerial roles, according to a new report from the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and Laudio.

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The Power of Downtime: How Nurses Can Recharge and Thrive

Daily Nurse

While rewarding, being a nurse is an endlessly busy career path. It can often feel like you’re constantly on the go, which may well impact your physical and mental energy levels. Combatting this — and the potential for burnout — effectively requires a little focus on your downtime. Finding ways to recharge during your downtime, whether during your days off or break periods, is critical to helping you thrive at work and home.

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Here are the Biggest Workforce Challenges in Nursing in 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

CNOs and other healthcare executives are strategizing to address recruitment and retention, workplace violence, and virtual nursing challenges, say these nurse leaders. Nurse leaders have had many challenges to face this year as the nursing shortage continues. CNOs and other healthcare executives have been brainstorming ideas for addressing this shortage as well as disruptors such as AI and virtual care.

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Essential Tips for Nurses to Keep Their Feet Happy on the Job!

Minority Nurse

Bedside nurses can spend hours moving and standing on their feet for hours on end. One 2023 study reported that nurses who’ve worked 12-hour shifts walk an estimated distance of four to five miles. The increase in steps can also come with severe foot pain and aches. This type of pain can even extend to the legs and ankles, leaving plenty of nurses disgruntled and leaving their workplace for an environment where they can rest more and stay on their feet less.

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Press Ganey unveils AI tool to support nurse leaders with Magnet designation

Becker's Hospital Review

A new AI-powered tool from Press Ganey can save hospitals hours of time spent preparing data while pursuing Magnet recognition, the organization said Oct. 28.

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Lessons for the next pandemic: where did Australia go right and wrong in responding to COVID?

Nursing Review

Adrian Esterman , University of South Australia ; Guzyal Hill , Charles Darwin University ; Hassan Vally , Deakin University ; Kim M Caudwell , Charles Darwin University ; Michael Toole , Burnet Institute ; Steven McGloughlin , Monash University , and Tari Turner , Monash University With COVID still classified as an ongoing pandemic , it’s difficult to contemplate the next one.

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UPMC boosts nurse compensation to $52.17 an hour by 2027

Health Leaders | Nursing

UPMC is boosting compensation for entry level registered nurses to $52.17 an hour by 2027, a 20% increase and nearly $9 more an hour than local competitors pay, the Downtown-based hospital and health insurance giant announced Monday. New nurses with a bachelor’s degree will get $41.75 an hour and $40 an hour without a bachelor’s degree for an 18% increase.

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American Nurses Foundation Awards $339,000 Grant to HBCU Nursing Program to Support Education for Male Nurses of Color

Minority Nurse

The American Nurses Foundation has made a significant stride in promoting diversity in nursing education by awarding one of its prestigious nursing research grants, Diversify Nursing Research through Support of Minority Institutions. This initiative aims to boost the number of ethnic minority nurse researchers while broadening the diversity of research topics and perspectives.

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The Ultimate Guide to Travel Nursing Agencies: What Every Nurse Needs to Know

The Gypsy Nurse

Medical Edge Recruitment provided this article. Written By: Taylor Dupont, Marketing Specialist, Medical Edge Recruitment Travel nursing has emerged as a dynamic and rewarding career path for many healthcare professionals. With the growing demand for nurses in various locations across the country, travel nursing agencies play a pivotal role in connecting nurses with temporary job opportunities.

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When Nurses Need to Report Criminal Matters to the Board

Empowered Nurses

In the healthcare profession, nurses hold positions of trust and responsibility. This trust extends not only to patient care but also to upholding the ethical and legal standards that govern their profession. You are a nurse 24/7 and are held to ethical standards whether at work or personal life. One key legal responsibility is self-reporting criminal matters to the appropriate nursing board or regulatory body.

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The Importance of Communication in Long-term Healthcare

Celayix

According to the American Hospital Association , “good communication among patients, families, and caregivers is becoming increasingly difficult to establish in today’s healthcare system.” Hospital stays are becoming shorter, medical treatment is becoming more technologically advanced, resources are few, and there is an increasing demand for patients and families to have more information about, and engage in, care choices.

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Health, education leaders urge schools to include nurses in the budget

Health Leaders | Nursing

With student health needs on the rise, state officials want to make sure every school has a nurse on hand. However, tight budgets are making it a challenge. According to the Michigan Association of School Nurses, 600,000 Michigan students manage at least one chronic condition, and 25% take daily medications. Therefore, the presence of school nurses is vital for ensuring the mental and physical health and safety of students.