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Navigating the 7 Ethical Dilemmas in Hospice Care

The Nursing Site

Introduction Hospice care serves as a unique specialty of nursing by focusing on providing comfort and support to patients nearing the end of their lives. While deeply fulfilling, this field presents nurses with an array of ethical dilemmas that require thoughtful consideration and empathy. In this article, we will explore the 7 ethical dilemmas in hospice care and discuss effective strategies for managing them.

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Getting Honest with the Public

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN For many months, nurse leaders have been asking me why we are not more honest with the public about what is happening in our healthcare delivery system. One emergency department nurse leader related the following story that is so similar to others that I have heard: My […] The post Getting Honest with the Public appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Collaboration Issues for NPs to Avoid

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Collaboration Issues continue to plague Nurse Practitioners. How can you avoid some of the problems, pitfalls, and issues? In this Episode of the NP Business Matters Podcast, I wanted to tackle some recurring issues I see all the time regarding NPs and collaborators. NPs often have question topics around collaboration, for example: Finding Collaborators Determining exactly what they need Occasionally, wanting to find a way to side-step a collaborator Trying to figure out what to do if they sudde

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146 hospitals, health systems ranked by best compensation for nurses

Becker's Hospital Review

MIT Sloan Management Review published a "Nursing Satisfaction Index " that shows how nurses at 200 of the largest healthcare employers in the U.S. rate employee experience.

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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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The Role of Nurses in Countering Environmental Racism

Minority Nurse

Nurses are integral to every community, and not just from the perspective of simply providing critical medical services. Your field experiences have likely made it clear to you that you impact patients’ lives through your empathy, social sensitivity, and hard-earned knowledge. One of the often overlooked areas in which nurses are influential is helping to address injustice, even environmental racism.

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No Link Between Small Molecule Therapies and Cardiovascular Events in New IBD Study

Consult QD

A large new Cleveland Clinic study has found no link between small molecule medications like tofacitinib or upadicitinib and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), contradicting previous concerns about this class of drugs. Even more surprisingly, researchers found that biologic therapies for IBD were associated less with cardiovascular events.

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From One Nurse to Another: How to Make Gift Bags Your Co-Workers Will Love

Daily Nurse

Nurses spend their shifts caring for patients, communicating with doctors, and much more, so a great way to show your fellow healthcare professionals how much you care is with a gift bag. So, how do you make gift bags for fellow nurses? What should you include in your bags? Here’s how to make gift bags your co-workers will love. Buy Them or Take the DIY Route?

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Fight Option Paralysis: Find Your Next Nursing Career Move

Minority Nurse

Choosing the right career path in nursing can be daunting, especially when the healthcare industry offers many specialties, roles, and opportunities. Getting stuck in what we’ll call option paralysis is a real possibility, and it takes focused energy and clarity to avoid pitfalls along the way. You don’t know what to choose when you have so many choices.

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Why 1 chief nurse nixed 'challenges' from her vocabulary

Becker's Hospital Review

Dianne Aroh, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer at Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, is passionate about turning every challenge into an opportunity.

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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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Women’s Health Disorders Found More Frequently Among Individuals With Celiac Disease

Consult QD

Recent research suggests that women with celiac disease may face a higher frequency of women’s health disorders, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, irregular menstruation, infertility and primary ovarian failure. This abstract, “Women’s Health Disorders in a Celiac Disease Population- A Nationwide Cohort Analysis,” was recently presented by Rama Nanah, MD, a clinical hospitalist at Cleveland Clinic, during the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2023 Annual Meeting.

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Oncology Nurse Margaret Potter Shaves Head in Support of Cancer Patients

Daily Nurse

AdventHealth oncology nurse Margaret Potter has shaved her head during Breast Cancer Awareness Month for the past twelve years to support her patients experiencing hair loss, a common side effect of chemotherapy. Potter says hair loss can be particularly emotional for women, and she doesn’t want them to feel ashamed. “The day after I shaved my head for the first time, I went back, and one of my patients said, ‘Oh my gosh, I can shave my head now!

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The Value of Time in Nursing: Maximizing Patient Care and Outcomes

Symplr

In nursing, there are special moments that time allows to happen. Through moments of joy, fear, sadness, anger, grief, or gratitude, it’s a nurse’s job to be there through it all.

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Top 10 Things Nurses Should Never Say To Their Patients

NurseBuff

In the rapidly evolving world of healthcare, where technologies and treatments are continually advancing, one element remains at the core of effective patient care: communication. The nurse’s role is pivotal in establishing trust, ensuring comfort, and delivering optimal care. What a nurse says, or more importantly, doesn’t say, can greatly influence a patient’s experience and […] The post Top 10 Things Nurses Should Never Say To Their Patients appeared first on NurseBuff

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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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p53-Independent Non-Cytotoxic Therapy May be a Viable Option for Chemotherapy-Resistant Small Cell Lung Cancer

Consult QD

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for approximately 15% of all lung cancer cases, and the number of cases are on the rise. Patients with SCLC typically present with advanced disease that rapidly resists cytotoxic chemotherapy, radiation therapy and immunotherapy. Most cases therefore have fatal outcomes. The current five-year survival for SCLC lingers around 5%, even with the addition of immune checkpoint therapy to standard platinum-based chemotherapy.

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ED Nurses Going Beyond the Call of Duty: Meet ENA Connection’s 20 Under 40 Class

Daily Nurse

From flight nurses to military members and mayors to parents, emergency nurses go beyond the call of duty and the 2023 ENA Connection 20 Under 40 class has it all. ENA announced the third class of 20 extraordinary nurses as part of the celebration of Emergency Nurses Week. Each honoree in the 2023 class has achieved significant milestones in their healthcare careers and demonstrated positive contributions beyond their professional work.

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5+1 Ways to Support NP Preceptors

NP Hub

Becoming a skilled Nurse Practitioner (NP) requires good collaboration between students and experienced … The post 5+1 Ways to Support NP Preceptors appeared first on NPHub.

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Summer Alert: 10 Heat Stroke Symptoms You Should Watch Out For

NurseBuff

Summer season is a great time to unwind and explore some of the world’s best kept resorts. Yet the scorching heat of the sun also brings with it some health hazards we ought to take seriously. Heat stroke symptoms are always on the go to ruin our summer excitement so before you plan out your […] The post Summer Alert: 10 Heat Stroke Symptoms You Should Watch Out For appeared first on NurseBuff.

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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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ChatGPT “Pretty Good” at Basic IBS Info, but Misses Details

Consult QD

The artificial intelligence (AI) language model, ChatGPT, works reasonably well for answering basic queries from the public about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but less so for medical professionals seeking detailed and referenced information. That’s what researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Digestive Disease Institute concluded when they tested ChatGPT’s version 4.0 with 15 commonly asked questions about IBS.

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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Offers Healthy Nudge on Policy: ‘We Can Do Better’

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

To Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, the monumental costs of health inequity—declining health outcomes and escalating financial expenditures—are on a collision course to finally break the U.S. health care system, so staying that course simply isn’t an option. “After decades of hand-wringing, our country’s health care system must finally be reformed. We pay far more for our care… The post Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Offers Healthy Nudge on Policy: ‘We Can Do Better’ appeared first on Johns Hopki

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5 Ways To Quickly Improve Employee Engagement

Celayix

In the labor market in 2023, the traditional concept of people working one job for twenty years has faded away. Instead, the gig economy has taken center stage, offering flexible, project-based work arrangements that empower individuals. However, employers face a unique challenge. They must adapt to the ever-changing workforce. Their goal is to improve employee engagement to retain their talent.

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How to Break Down NCLEX Questions

Joyce

The NCLEX is different from most tests you’ve taken during school. Instead of measuring your basic nursing knowledge, the NCLEX assumes you know your stuff, then tests how well you can apply it to real-world nursing scenarios. NCLEX questions can feel complicated, and answering them correctly requires careful reading, critical thinking, and strategy.

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What Gastroenterologists Need to Know About Managing Food Allergies in Clinical Practice

Consult QD

With an increasing incidence of food allergies worldwide, it is important that clinicians—and particularly GI specialists—are equipped to identify and manage these patients in clinical practice. “Approximately 30-35% percent of GI patients self-report having a food allergy, which speaks to the fact that food is a major trigger for GI symptoms,” says Anthony Lembo, MD , Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, while also noting that 2-4% of individuals receive

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Nursology Conceptual Models, Theories, and Specialties

Nursology

This blog is an extension of one that I posted on nursology.net in December, 2018 (Fawcett, 2018). In that blog, I asked what specialties could be considered legitimate for our discipline and proposed that nursology specialties should be based on the concepts of each nursology conceptual model (see the Models and Theories Gallery).

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Head-to-Toe Assessments: A Checklist for Success

Nurse.com

Conducting head-to-toe assessments is a critical skill for all nurses. This exam identifies potential problems and helps form appropriate nursing diagnoses and interventions. The first step of the nursing process involves collecting data with a thorough assessment. This evaluation includes many factors, including a head-to-toe exam. A head-to-toe assessment is a comprehensive patient health evaluation.

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Retirement Planning for a Secure Future

Minority Nurse

When’s the last time you thought about your retirement finances? Busy nurses can’t be blamed if the answer is, “It’s been awhile.” But ignoring or paying little attention to your financial life before and during retirement will only shortchange you. Nurses, in particular, have situations such as per diem or travel contract work that can impact their savings and retirement plans.

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Nurse Anesthesia School Trains Specialized Team of Critical Caregivers

Consult QD

Founded nearly 55 years ago, Cleveland Clinic’s School of Nurse Anesthesia was one of the first educational programs in the U.S. to formally train caregivers to work in the specialty. Originally established to fulfill a burgeoning need for qualified nurse anesthetists, the school has continued to meet this growing demand by educating scores of scholars every year on the most current evidence-based techniques for managing complex surgical patients.

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The Importance of a Healthy Work Environment

Diversity Nursing

Creating a healthy work environment for Nurses should be a top priority for employers in the healthcare industry. Nurses play a vital role in patient care, and their well-being directly impacts the quality of care they provide. By addressing some of the biggest issues in Nursing today, such as recruitment, retention, burnout, and bullying, employers can create a positive and supportive work environment that ultimately benefits both Nurses and patients.

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Protect Yourself With These Tips on Proper Documentation

Nurse.com

An RN claims his nurse manager criticized him for documenting in the medical record that a patient was “combative and noncompliant,” after the patient struck the RN and another nurse during discharge. The RN wonders how he should’ve documented the incident since the nurse manager didn’t provide constructive feedback. I’ve written blogs about legal cases that focus on nursing documentation and its importance.

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Kara: Nurturing Connections in Healthcare Recruitment

Core Medical Group

Meet Kara, a seasoned Travel Nurse Recruiter with 12 years of experience. Her journey is a combination of professional dedication and a passion for connecting with people. In this blog, we'll look into what inspired Kara to pursue a career in healthcare recruitment, her most memorable experiences, the qualities she values in healthcare candidates, her strategies for successful matches, and how she stays updated on industry trends.

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Novel Tool Holistically Assesses Patient-Reported Outcomes of Esophageal Conditions

Consult QD

Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed and validated a new point-of-care tool that clinicians can use to objectively quantify and longitudinally track outcomes in patients with benign and malignant esophageal conditions. Development and validation of the Cleveland Clinic Esophageal Questionnaire (CEQ) were recently described in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery [ Epub 23 Aug 2023 ], and now a study presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2023 shows t