Diversity Nursing

AUGUST 8, 2022

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace is beneficial for employers, staff, and patients. More hospitals and health systems are recognizing the importance and are rolling out new DEI programs. Diversity is the range of human differences, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical ability or attributes, religious or ethical values system, national origin, and political beliefs.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 8, 2022

You can take two paths in nursing: attend hospitals and clinics as an in-person nurse or transition into a remote nursing position working remotely through telemedicine. You may have recently made the plunge into a remote position — or maybe you’re thinking about it. Good for you! You’re about to experience new opportunities and adventures […].

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The Nurse Break

AUGUST 10, 2022

Code Brown – Dating Edition. More from Nursed at the Seams here. It’s not even 0900, I’m not done with my first coffee of the day and already I’m exhausted. Not from working a night shift, or any shift for that matter. I’m exhausted from trying to have a social life (hint, I mean dating life) as a nurse. I know I said my next blog would talk about our wonderful grad nurses that hit the floor during a pandemic, but I just need to get this off my chest first!!

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 12, 2022

Nursing certification has helped advance the industry by encouraging, recognizing, and rewarding individuals who actively pursue professional growth opportunities. But nursing certifications do more than benefit the individual nurses who attain them — they can also improve quality outcomes. The more skills and specialties you have, the better equipped you are to provide your patients with higher quality care.

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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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Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission. While nursing can often feel absolutely quixotic or Sisyphean in nature, nurses battle on.

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The Nurse Break

AUGUST 6, 2022

More from In Pursuit of Excellence here. Other similar articles on self care and wellbeing here. ‘Education is important but camping is importanter’ – Strategies in self care. Since I’ve recently broken out my favourite annual leave meme (hence the first part of the title) and taken my camper trailer into the wild west of NSW, I thought it might be apt to talk about self-care and why, regardless of how much you may love what you do, regular self-care is so important.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 8, 2022

When an unexpected family tragedy occurred in the same field she’d studied for years, one nurse shifted her clinical focus to draw attention to a growing issue that’s gone largely unrecognized. Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, Partner, Patient Safety and Quality, Relias. Lora Sparkman, RN, BSN, MHA, has been a nurse for 37 years and a member of Relias’ team for the past five.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cases of COVID-19 are still occurring across the United States due to more contagious Omnicron variants. Doctors and scientists worry about the effectiveness of current vaccines in protecting older populations against Omnicron infections. Therefore, experts are highly recommending booster vaccines. Current COVID-19 boosters are safe and effective. They help to reduce the severity of several Omicron variants, including the new BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2022

Prior to finding out about Mercy Ships, Christel A. Echu, RN, admits that if you asked her if she wanted to volunteer for any organization and not get paid, she would have said, “No.” But when a friend who was an authority in the church she attended in Cameroon, Africa, she changed her mind. “I […].

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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

Symplr

AUGUST 12, 2022

For two and a half years, COVID-19 has been the primary lens through which health systems have viewed their infection control compliance efforts. However, by putting the sole focus on COVID-19, we’ve been missing the broader mission of infection control—for example, in credentialing, access management, and other healthcare operations areas. Amid evolving data reporting requirements regarding COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, proactive health systems prepare for future mandates by ensuring

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 12, 2022

Nursing certification has helped advance the industry by encouraging, recognizing, and rewarding individuals who actively pursue professional growth opportunities. But nursing certifications do more than benefit the individual nurses who attain them — they can also improve quality outcomes. The more skills and specialties you have, the better equipped you are to provide your patients with higher quality care.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2022

Prior to finding out about Mercy Ships, Christel A. Echu, RN, admits that if you asked her if she wanted to volunteer for any organization and not get paid, she would have said, “No.”. But when a friend who was an authority in the church she attended in Cameroon, Africa, she changed her mind. “I decided to volunteer with Mercy Ships because I was interested in being a part of the great work they were doing for the people of my country , and I wanted to help in any way that I could,” Echu says.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 9, 2022

New research from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) underscores the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses and the benefits of creating and sustaining healthy work environments (HWEs) to support nurse staffing, retention and optimal patient care. Results from AACN’s fifth national survey of nurses are now published online ahead of the […].

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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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Symplr

AUGUST 12, 2022

The benefits of predictive analytics in healthcare are well established: Health systems and payers are already showing how valuable it is to provide clinicians with insights at the point of care using current population data. For example, early in the COVID-19 pandemic when answers were in short supply, analytics on a population-wide level provided key insights for public health leaders and clinicians who needed to make timely decisions about infection.

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Go4

AUGUST 11, 2022

Benefits to being a 1099 Nurse at Go4 Benefits to being a 1099 Nurse at Go4 By Amanda Kammes, MSN, BSN, RN, Nurse Community Manager Nurses everywhere are born into a system where we are told to go to nursing school, then you go to a hospital and get a job. You work 3, 12 hour shifts and either rotate, work nights or work day shift. Within this construct, you are a W2 employee and that’s really the end of it.

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Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

AUGUST 11, 2022

For most of us, burnout began as a steady decline. Perhaps this occurred over several years. Sadly, the current self-sacrificing work culture in the United States has expedited the amount of time it takes to burn someone out. Being burned out is living in a constant state of overwhelming exhaustion. This is significantly more extreme than day-to-day tiredness or feeling ill.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 11, 2022

Dealing with COVID has been difficult for everyone. However, patients who have cancer face a more complex battle. Gabriella Magarelli MSN, ACNP-BC, AOCNP, is the Director of Nursing, RCCA at Hackensack Meridian Health John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and a Lymphoma Research Advanced Practice Nurse. Magarelli has been with the […].

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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.

Health Outcomes

Nurse.com

AUGUST 10, 2022

The thought of negotiating your salary may not even cross your mind, and if it does, the idea may intimidate you. Although negotiating salary can increase starting wages by an average of 7.4%, according to a Forbes article , many nurses don’t do it. In fact, in the 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report by Nurse.com, 30% of the nurses surveyed said they never negotiate salary vs. 18% who said they always do.

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Symplr

AUGUST 10, 2022

By Beth Lindsey VanOrsdale, PhD, RN, DNP, MHA, CPHRM, CNE Southern New Hampshire University Associate Dean of Health Professions. Pharmacy, nursing, respiratory therapy, and other healthcare professionals juggle multiple demands when reviewing, preparing, dispensing, and administering medications. For example, they’re simultaneously answering call lights and phone calls, helping a patient to the bathroom, and responding to emergencies.

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Penn Medicine News

AUGUST 8, 2022

At Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute, patients and their families can find more than 100 pieces of contemporary artwork meant to provide both comfort and strength during a very difficult time in their lives.

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FreshRN

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s time for nursing students to gear up and start their new school semester. Let’s dig into some practical tips for how to pass nursing school exams. The post How to Pass Nursing School Exams appeared first on FRESHRN.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 10, 2022

The thought of negotiating your salary may not even cross your mind, and if it does, the idea may intimidate you. Although negotiating salary can increase starting wages by an average of 7.4%, according to a Forbes article , many nurses don’t do it. In fact, in the 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report by Nurse.com, 30% of the nurses surveyed said they never negotiate salary vs. 18% who said they always do.

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Board Vitals - Nursing

AUGUST 9, 2022

Gearing up for the CPN Exam? See where you stand and try your hand at these 5 free Certified Pediatric Nurse Exam practice questions from the all-new BoardVitals Certified Pediatric Nurse Exam Question Bank. . . How did you do? Practice makes perfect! If you struggled with some of these questions, you’re not alone. The CPN Exam is relatively difficult with a first-time pass rate of 78.47% in 2020.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

Recently, monkeypox has been announced as an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization. However, many are unfamiliar with what the virus is and why this outbreak is so concerning. Scientists have been apprehensive about a monkeypox outbreak for over a decade, and this concern is becoming relevant as more and more cases are reported worldwide.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans’ mental health has been negatively impacted in several ways. The rates of anxiety and depression in the U.S. have grown considerably, leading many experts to worry about a potential rise in crisis situations such as suicidal ideation, overdoses, and domestic violence. The ability of your staff to mitigate various types of crises has never been more important.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 8, 2022

When an unexpected family tragedy occurred in the same field she’d studied for years, one nurse shifted her clinical focus to draw attention to a growing issue that’s gone largely unrecognized. Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, Partner, Patient Safety and Quality, Relias. Lora Sparkman, RN, BSN, MHA, has been a nurse for 37 years and a member of Relias’ team for the past five.

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Symplr

AUGUST 8, 2022

For healthcare leaders, a clinically integrated supply chain is no longer a “nice to have;” rather, it's required to navigate the complex challenges of the modern healthcare ecosystem. Siloed teams, product an d process variation, and poor clinical outcomes are all signs of weak clinical integration. These shortfalls put health systems at great risk amid rising costs, an increas ing focus on quality , and decreasing reimbursement.

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The Nurse Break

AUGUST 7, 2022

We chat with Kamin Tuxworth, a mad keen Barra Wrangler about her rural nursing journey. If you’ve ever thought of Rural and Remote nursing then this is a great read! Before you read on go join our exclusive PRIVATE FB Group ‘ Rural & Remote Nursing | The Australian Outback ‘ to ask questions and network with other like-minded nurses, midwives and students.

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Relias

AUGUST 11, 2022

The goal of the revenue cycle is to receive reimbursement. So how do you make sure you’re reimbursed accurately and on time? The answer may seem complex, but it comes down to accurate coding. Medical billing and coding are two of the most important factors of the revenue cycle, yet the importance of coding accurately is often not monitored, assessed, or facilitated as much as it should be.

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