Emerging RN Leader

JULY 6, 2025

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Our Generation Z nurses are career ambitious, which is terrific. Yet increasingly, nurse leaders report that they have nurses applying for roles for which they lack the necessary experience or clinical skills to be successful. Consider the following story: We recently posted a vacancy for an Assistant […] The post How Much Clinical Experience is Enough to be a Leader appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 10, 2025

Money can be a touchy subject, especially for people in the helping professions, such as you and your fellow NPs. The topic of money tends to be particularly challenging for new practices and providers. You’re just starting your practice, and you’re eager to build your business. Sometimes, you spend more time with your patients than you know you should, but you try to be there for them and want to help.

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Nursing Times

JULY 8, 2025

Nurses are paying hundreds each month just to get to work by train. Now, a campaign has been launched for the creation of an NHS railcard.

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The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 10, 2025

So, you are taking your first assignment and you aren’t sure what to expect, or you are looking for some advice. We frequently see posts in our Facebook group asking for advice and tips for new travel nurses. Veteran travel nurses are great about giving advice and being there to mentor new travel nurses as they start their assignments. In this article, we put together some of the best advice and tips we have seen in our Facebook group for new travel nurses.

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Speaker: Dr. Christine Gall, DrPH, MS, BSN, RN

The promise of virtual care is no longer theoretical and is now a critical solution to many of healthcare’s most urgent challenges. Yet many healthcare leaders remain unsure how to build a business case for investment and launching the right program at the right time can be the difference between value and failure. For organizations seeking a financially sound, clinically effective entry point, Virtual Patient Observation (VPO) offers a compelling case to lead with.

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Emerging RN Leader

JULY 9, 2025

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN As health systems design well-being programs for staff, one often overlooked social determinant of work health is the stress of being a caregiver to elderly parents and relatives. In a recent article in the July-August Harvard Business Review titled Your Company Needs an Eldercare Policy, the authors […] The post Eldercare – A Growing Stressor for Nurses appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Nursology

JULY 9, 2025

In Memoriam – August 15, 1941 – June 11, 2025 Kay (as she was known professionally) was a stellar scholar and educator. Her contributions to the advancement of nursing knowledge have and will continue to inspire and facilitate the work of our disciplinary scholars over the years.

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The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 8, 2025

Getting ready to hit the road for another assignment? The life of a travel nurse can be full of excitement and adventure, but it can also cause a ton of stress and inconvenience without the right preparation. To help you avoid this situation, we’ve made a list of 6 packing tips for travel nurses that are easy to remember and simple to do. Let’s get started.

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American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

“Nursing doesn’t need more followers— It needs voices that challenge, innovate, and lead.” As a student nurse from rural Alabama, I’m not waiting until I graduate to shape the future of nursing, because I can already see where change is needed. From hospital closures and nurse staffing crises to the growing disconnect between policy and practice, the profession is in a state of urgency.

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Nursology

JULY 7, 2025

Contributor: Victoria Soltis-Jarrett Will nurses consider Artificial Intelligence (AI) a pattern of ‘knowing’ in nursing in the future? I recently completed a course that required me to ensure that an online asynchronous graduate nursing course I will design meets the rigorous standards. I chose the asynchronous format of the course despite the availability of a … Continue reading Will AI Serve as a Pattern of Knowing in Nursing?

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Nursing Times

JULY 6, 2025

Aromoke Sanjo-Odutayo argues that language skills for overseas nurses working in the UK should be continuously supported.

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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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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 11, 2025

CNOs and other nurse leaders need to get involved in policy and advocacy so that nurses can be the ones leading the way for legislative change. In the latest edition of HealthLeaders' The Winning Edge webinar series, a panel of nurse leaders discussed how to collaborate with professional organizations, educate policymakers, and drive nursing-forward agendas that impact patient care, healthcare equity, and workforce development and sustainability.

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Diversity Nursing

JULY 9, 2025

As Nurses, we witness the incredible resilience and unique journeys of individuals every single day. July marks an important occasion: Disability Pride Month. Disability Pride isn't about denying the challenges that can come with living with a disability. Instead, it's about embracing disability as a natural and valuable aspect of human diversity. It's about dismantling stigma, fighting for accessibility, and recognizing the immense contributions of disabled individuals to society.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 10, 2025

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) professionals play a crucial role in the evolution of the healthcare system. The role of the DNP extends beyond the bedside, focusing on leading teams, shaping policy, implementing evidence-based practices, and driving improvements in care delivery and organizational change. To meet these demands, DNPs must possess more than clinical expertise by exhibiting a robust set of leadership skills.

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Nursing Times

JULY 7, 2025

Read about the Nursing and Midwifery Council's recruitment campaign for a chair to oversee its reviews of the code and revalidation.

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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

American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

A culture of support enhances success. The learning that occurs when a student or new nurse works with a preceptor can prove pivotal in their professional journey. Preceptors—who educate students, new graduates, and new employees in the clinical environment—continue to demonstrate a positive effect on recruitment, onboarding, and retention. They have a significant impact on how new graduates experience the beginning of their career.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 9, 2025

Storytelling and data are the keys to successful advocacy efforts, say these nurse leaders. Legislators play a key role in nursing practice, from scope of practice to workplace violence prevention to patient care delivery. But right now, most of the elected officials making decisions about nursing policy are not nurses. According to a 2023 study , the number of nurses serving as legislators has declined from 2013.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 10, 2025

I didn’t truly understand what nursing was until I began practicing it. Like many, I entered the profession because I loved people and science. But it wasn’t until I experienced community health firsthand that I discovered the beating heart of nursing—meeting people where they are, supporting them before a crisis, and helping them stay healthy and whole in their everyday lives.

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Healthy Workforce Institute

JULY 9, 2025

If you want to create a high-performing, respectful team, one of the most important things you can do is learn how to break the “us vs. them” mentality. In an environment where teamwork literally saves lives, division among staff destroys trust, drains morale, and ultimately harms patients. From day shift versus night shift, nurses versus physicians, newcomers versus. veterans, and even staff versus. leadership — the “us vs. them” mentality is everywhere.

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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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American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

The landscape surrounding nursing education in the acute care setting continues to evolve, in part to accommodate the influx of Generation Z (Gen Z) nurses born between 1997 and 2012. This tech-savvy generation grew up during the internet era, using app-based services and social media. According to Min and colleagues, this cohort has had to adapt to rapidly changing digital innovations during their lives.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 10, 2025

Knowing how to communicate with legislators and governing bodies is an essential part of nursing advocacy. When it comes to participation in the legislative process, it's important to identify and build relationships with local, state, and federal policymakers. CNOs should know who the decision-makers are and what committees they are on, and try to become their subject matter experts who they can call upon to discuss nursing-related issues.

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Empowered Nurses

JULY 10, 2025

This month, nurses in Pennsylvania received some long-awaited news: the Keystone State is officially a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC). For many of us, this milestone feels like a long-overdue acknowledgment of what nursing is today—a profession that transcends state lines, especially in an age of telehealth, travel nursing, and national emergencies.

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Daily Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

Suzette “Suzy” Valladares has worn many hats throughout her nursing career—Pediatric ICU nurse, trauma specialist, hurricane responder, and now Director of Nursing for individuals with developmental disabilities. But in the fall of 2023, she took on a role no nurse ever anticipates: cancer patient. Her story is one of grit, grace, and full-circle caregiving—making her the perfect honoree as this week’s Nurse of the Week.

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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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American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

What’s the impact of the doctor of nursing practice? Two landmark reports have shaped the future of nursing leadership: the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN’s) The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice. These reports provide critical insights into the evolving role of the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) in advancing nursing leadership.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 11, 2025

Unionized nurses at Essentia Health hospitals in Duluth and Superior reached a contract agreement Friday, averting a strike that was set to begin this week, though other groups of Essentia employees may still move forward with strikes in the coming days. The contract must still be ratified by union members. It includes a 9.75% raise over the three years of the contract, plus a one-year freeze on reductions to staffing ratios, the nurses union announced in a press release.

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Registered Nursing

JULY 11, 2025

Massachusetts is experiencing a critical shortage of registered nurses, with healthcare systems across the Commonwealth reporting escalating staff deficits. Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing ( ABSN ) programs have emerged as a powerful solution designed to fast‑track career changers and degree-holders into the nursing workforce. These intensive, high-quality programs are responding to the mounting demand for skilled care, driven by an aging population and increasing complexity in patien

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Daily Nurse

JULY 11, 2025

In some spiritual traditions, there is a notion of finding one’s center, the balancing point upon which one’s life is balanced. In your nursing career , finding your center is an essential practice, one that remains crucial as you and your life evolve. The center of your career may very well be a moving target — are you currently in touch with yours?

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American Nurse

JULY 9, 2025

Nursing and bioengineering students team up. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) describes interprofessional partnerships (Domain 6 in The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education ) as intentional collaboration across professions as well as among care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 11, 2025

Clasp programs enable employers to commit early—often while students are still in school—and defer actual repayment until after retention milestones. That structure stretches every dollar further, with many employers on Clasp's platform offering up to $75,000+ in tax-advantaged loan repayment over three years. The result: deeper loyalty, lower turnover, and more sustainable pipelines for in-demand roles like nurse anesthesia, radiologic and surgical technology, respiratory therapy, physical ther

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Post University

JULY 11, 2025

When Sabrina Williams graduated from high school, her mother, a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA), talked her into following in her footsteps. “To my surprise, I loved being a CNA,” says Sabrina, who grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “I worked in long-term care, and I truly enjoyed helping residents get ready each day and look and feel beautiful. Some of them didn’t have families visiting them, so I took it seriously to care for them.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 8, 2025

Many BIPOC nurses can get overwhelmed by nursing duties and demands that can build up and become unmanageable over time. And with minority nurses facing a high level of burnout , recovery, and wellness strategies have never been more critical than now. Therapy can be a beneficial resource for nurses who need emotional care but don’t know where to turn.

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American Nurse

JULY 8, 2025

In response to: Medicaid Matters Dear Editor, I write in strong support of Jennifer Mensik Kennedy’s column “Medicaid Matters” (July 1, 2025), which soundly called for nurses to advocate for those impacted by legislative cuts to Medicaid funding. In these turbulent times, nurse advocacy isn’t optional, it’s essential. Evidence shows that public narrative from RN voices and nursing leadership in policy-making improve outcomes and reduce costs.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 11, 2025

Nurses at Adventist Health Twin Cities and Sierra Vista hospitals held informational pickets Tuesday, citing concerns over staffing levels, retention and healthcare coverage as contract negotiations continue. The nurses, represented by the California Nurses Association, have been in talks with Adventist Health since March. According to union representatives, the goal of the pickets is to draw attention to what they describe as a lack of progress on key issues affecting working conditions and pat

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