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Rural regions bear brunt of nation's nurse workforce crisis

Health Leaders | Nursing

According to the latest report by the West Virginia Hospital Association, nursing had the highest overall rates of vacancies and turnovers, at more than 19% and 26% respectively.

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Challenging Your Own Paradigms

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many health systems are seeking ways to redesign nursing care delivery in 2024. Our current models are no longer serving us well, and most are proving challenging to sustain with the current shortage of RNs. New models will inevitably include more of a team-based approach, whether using […] The post Challenging Your Own Paradigms appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Where 'automation has not been kind to nursing'

Becker's Hospital Review

While automation holds the lucrative promise for many fields of removing mundane tasks from workloads, some nurse leaders are hopeful — but questioning — if emerging technology will do the same in their field.

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Pilot Program Helps Akron General Patients Find Sobriety

Consult QD

A new nurse-led program at Cleveland Clinic Akron General is fighting substance abuse through early interventions and peer-to-peer counseling. Created to provide ongoing support to patients who present to the emergency department (ED) for drug or alcohol issues, Recovery’s in Reach enables a rapid, seamless transition to addiction treatment that reinforces the possibility of sobriety.

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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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Native knowledge

American Nurse

Indigenous nursing programs are making room for new perspectives When Angela Acuna, BSN, RN, heard about the Indians in Nursing: Career Advancement and Transition Scholars (INCATS) program, she thought it was too good to be true. She was in her first semester at the University of Arizona College of Nursing in Tucson and was one… This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!

The Nursing Site

The post Have a Happy and Safe Halloween! first appeared on The Nursing Site.

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Exercise Lowers Risk of Suicide Attempts

SelfCare for HealthCare

Exercise may be tied to a reduction in suicide attempts, according to research published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Investigators examined data from 17 trials and found the likelihood of attempts was significantly reduced in individuals who took part in exercise interventions compared to those who were not active. To learn more about the body-mind connection and about how to create wellness programs for happier, less stressed, more engaged employees, visit SelfCare for HealthCare.

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Understanding that chronic back pain originates from within the brain could lead to quicker recovery, a new study finds

American Nurse

Most people with chronic back pain naturally think their pain is caused by injuries or other problems in the body such as arthritis or bulging disks. But our research team has found that thinking about the root cause of pain as a process that’s occurring in the brain can help promote recovery. That is a key finding of a study my colleagues and I recently published in JAMA Network Open , a monthly open-access medical journal.

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Nurses Champion New Patient-Centric Model of Labor and Delivery Care

Consult QD

Cleveland Clinic Akron General began piloting a new model of care in October 2022 on its labor and delivery unit. TeamBirth, a key component of the broader Maternal HealthCARE initiative sponsored by the March of Dimes and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, places patients giving birth at the center of shared communication and decision-making with their caregivers.

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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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“Let Me Go Ask Your Nurse…” Tackling the Transition from Student RN to THE Nurse

NurseBuff

We’ve all done it. You jump straight from nursing school clinicals to the world of bedside nursing. Patients bombard you with question after question after question. You exhaust our knowledge and follow up with, “I don’t know; let me go ask your nurse.” But then it hits you – you ARE THE nurse!! Congratulations!?! Feeling […] The post “Let Me Go Ask Your Nurse…” Tackling the Transition from Student RN to THE Nurse appeared first on NurseBuff.

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An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Nurse Mental Health 

Daily Nurse

At 22 years old, I became a charge nurse on a 27-bed step down unit at a large metropolitan hospital. The job demands were intense, and I regularly saw critically ill patients, distressed family members, and other difficult situations that I had little time, emotional bandwidth, or support to process. This experience drove me to join Trusted Health , where I work with a team to identify workforce solutions that make nursing a more sustainable career.

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Placebo, nocebo, and nursing care

American Nurse

The term “placebo” entered the English medical lexicon from the Latin word “placeo,” which means “I please” or “I shall please.” Its current usage, which primarily refers to treatments, frequently pharmaceutical, that provide symptom relief through the mind-body connection rather than through the treatment’s direct effect on the disease, has been in use since the early 1800s.

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Why Should I Pursue Nursing at Hopkins?

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

My name is Diego San Antonio, and I am an MSN Entry into Nursing student in my third semester. I moved to the United States from the Philippines when I was a child, and I’ve been in Maryland ever since. I attended Towson University and earned my bachelor’s in Health Education and promotion with a… The post Why Should I Pursue Nursing at Hopkins?

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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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A Nurse’s Last Letter To Her Abuser

Empowered Nurses

On August 7 , 2023, in Dayton, Ohio, Tristin Kate Smith committed suicide! The worst part of this story is that Tristin, a 28-year-old ER nurse, accused her abuser, healthcare, as the reason for taking her own life. She confided in detail in a note found on her computer by her father after her death about how she gave her heart, body, and mind to nursing because she wanted to help others and be a nurse forever.

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Celebrating a Baby’s First Halloween in the NICU

Daily Nurse

It’s Halloween at the Children’s Hospital New Orleans (CHNOLA), and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nursing team is celebrating with adorable handmade animal costumes for their babies. The NICU nursing team will dress as zookeepers to match the babies. Emily Cade, RN in the CHNOLA NICU, says making costumes and dressing the babies up for Halloween is a special tradition in the Children’s Hospital NICU. “We love seeing our babies celebrate their first Halloween, an

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AI can identify signs of staff burnout

American Nurse

Leverage existing and emerging tools to help address this persistent nursing challenge. Lillee Gelinas Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify signs of staff burnout by using a range of methods and tools, each with its own merits. The demands of patient care coupled with the hurried healthcare environment create a dangerous mix for nurses trying to stay mentally and physically healthy.

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DNP or PhD? A Guide For Nurses Considering Further Study

Scrubs

Are you a practicing nurse? It’s a rewarding career, even with the associated stress and vicarious trauma you can experience. You get to care for people at their most vulnerable – when they’re recovering from surgery, in palliative care, or otherwise are ill or unwell. Nurses have excellent job security, a decent wage, good workplace benefits, and are also well-respected roles in the broader community.

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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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TAVR and SAVR Perform Similarly at 5 Years in Low-Risk Patients, PARTNER 3 Report Shows

Consult QD

Extended follow-up data from the landmark PARTNER 3 trial comparing transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement (TAVR and SAVR, respectively) in patients at low surgical risk showed statistically comparable rates of a composite of death, stroke or rehospitalization — and of the individual component events — at five years. The results, presented in a late-breaking clinical trials session at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting and simultaneously published online in

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As Your Nursing Resume Gathers Dust

Daily Nurse

Your nursing career has a unique narrative that propels it, and your resume is one place where it’s essential to get the story right if you want prospective employers to notice you or other opportunities to come to fruition. In a complex, evolving, and often competitive job market, having an up-to-date resume ready to go at all times is simply smart.

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Dedicated academic advisors for nursing student athletes

American Nurse

This novel approach bridges the gap between athletics and academics. Takeaways: Nursing students who participate in collegiate athletics are a niche group with unique advising needs related to clinical learning. A dedicated academic advisor for nursing student athletes can provide invaluable support to nursing students and faculty. In 2021, over 500,000 U.S. college students participated in teams sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); however, little research exists o

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The Relentless School Nurse: Because We Live in a Country That Requires a Survivors Toolkit for Gun Violence…

The Relentless School Nurse

Community gun violence, like the mass shooting that happened this week in Lewiston, Maine impacts those closest to the tragedy, surrounding areas, and even people far beyond the physical proximity to the events. Gun violence has wide-reaching implications and affects anyone who identifies as a survivor. I know this first-hand from my father, who survived the murders of his entire family and ten neighbors when he was twelve years old.

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Chelsea's Path: Balancing Healthcare Recruitment and Parenthood

Core Medical Group

In the world of healthcare recruitment, Chelsea's journey has been very influential. For the past six months, she's worked as a Recruiter within CoreMedical Group's Allied Healthcare Division, finding inspiration in her work and her team's collaborative spirit. Beyond her professional role, Chelsea is a culinary enthusiast, crafting new recipes in the kitchen.

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A Passion for Breast Cancer Advocacy and Unique Perspective on Survivorship: Meet The Pink Warrior 

Daily Nurse

Being one of 240,000 are great odds if you’re playing the billion-dollar Powerball, but not when those odds are for being diagnosed with breast cancer. According to the CDC, close to 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men each year, and Courtney Shihabuddin DNP, APRN-CNP, was one of those women in 2020. Shihabuddin was diagnosed with breast cancer on February 13, 2020.

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Infiltration of xylazine in illicit fentanyl

American Nurse

Be alert for the signs of this drug, a growing contributor to the opioid epidemic. Takeaways: In addition to the influx of fentanyl in the illicit drug supply, xylazine, another adulterant, is being detected and involved in drug overdose deaths. Xylazine, an animal tranquilizer, isn’t approved for human use and causes dramatic physiologic effects and places individuals who use illicit drugs at high risk for morbidity and mortality.

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One big benefit of working with us: our benefits package

Providence

Our Mission to care for all includes our caregivers, and a major way we do that through our best-in-class suite of benefits. We spoke with Providence Medford Medical Center Operating Room Assistant Nurse Manager and Nurse Educator Jilleann about what the benefits mean to her. Here’s what she says.

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Paget’s Disease of the Breast a Little Understood Form of DCIS

Consult QD

A patient arrives at your clinic with red scaling on the nipple or what looks like bleeding of the nipple. What do you do? While it’s more common for these symptoms to be a sign of eczema or psoriasis of the nipple and areola, in rare instances, this could be a form of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) that affects the cells of the milk ducts. Paget’s disease involves skin of the nipple, and is considered early-stage disease.

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Trust Your Gut: The Profound Implications of the Microbiome for Our Health

Amercan Journal of Nursing

The transformative potential of the microbiome. I’ve always considered the saying “trust your gut” to be a directive to respond to one’s innate instincts. However, as a gastroenterology clinical nurse specialist, I now recognize there can be a literal meaning to that phrase with the recent discovery of the microbiome and its implications for our health.

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The Role of Hospice Nursing in End-of-Life Care

Diversity Nursing

Understanding Hospice Care Hospice care is a specialized type of care that focuses on providing comfort and support to individuals who are nearing the end of their lives. It is designed to help patients maintain their dignity and quality of life during this challenging time. Hospice care can be provided in various settings, including the patient's home, a hospice facility, or a hospital.

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The value of service: veteran voices at Providence

Providence

As a values-based organization with a legacy of purpose, we recognize the unique skills veterans bring in delivering world-class care to our communities. This Veterans Day and always, we celebrate these caregivers, as well as the families that support them.

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Nurse-patient ratios can solve staffing crisis: ANA

Becker's Hospital Review

The American Nurses Association announced its support of the Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, which would establish minimum nurse-to-patient ratios nationwide.

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