Nurse.com

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Unmet needs for mental health care is creating opportunities for nurses, both new and experienced, in multiple care settings. With the demand for mental health nurses, the possibilities are wide-open, well-paying — and impressively diverse. You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Falls in two long-term care facilities dropped by 43% after installing a dynamic LED lighting program tuned to natural sleep and wake rhythms, according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Midwest Lighting Institute. Investigators assessed the impact of solid-state (LED) lighting on visual acuity, alertness, and sleep and its potential […].

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In the course of your nursing career, you need allies who can support you in elevating and advancing your journey as a professional nurse. Allies are easier to come by than you think, but many nurses don’t think strategically about this important aspect of nursing career development. Since many nurses seem averse to consciously and purposefully building a professional network, here are five strategies to do just that.

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Symplr

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The conditions in the environments where people are born, educated, work, play, and go about their lives greatly affect their access to healthcare, their health risk factors, and ultimately their health outcomes. You're likely hearing more about this not just because ensuring health equity is an important societal issue, but also because social determinants of health (SDoH) are being tied to quality healthcare and payments.

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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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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It has happened again. On October 22, 2022, workplace violence claimed the lives of two healthcare professionals from Methodist Dallas Medical Center in Texas. It’s a shocking tragedy that, according to reports , unfolded in the center’s labor and delivery unit, where recovering new mothers rest under the watchful eyes of their healthcare teams. Both victims were providing care at the time of the shooting.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Whether you know Nurse Blake from his Facebook videos, podcast , live shows, or cruises, he’s the most popular nurse influencer on social media and a force to be reckoned with! Well, at least helping the nursing community and making nurses laugh. And he’s doing that a lot. He’s also, though, providing lots of educational opportunities for them as well.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Though the benefits are clear, many home health and hospice agencies struggle to optimize coordination.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It’s common to assume that, in a lawsuit, the law is always on the side of those to whom you provide care. Although that’s often the case, it’s not always so. In my blog on civil procedure and professional negligence cases, I pointed out that civil procedure requires that a court bases its decision on methods, ways, and practices that all individuals involved in a lawsuit are expected to abide by.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 25, 2022

From devastating hurricanes to prolonged droughts to scorching heat waves, climate change wreaks havoc on the planet, with more severe impacts to come. As a nurse, you can expect climate change to affect your work if it hasn’t already. “Climate change,” notes the National League for Nursing (NLN), “currently impacts or will impact every aspect […].

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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

Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Cybersecurity threats are real, but you can take many steps to help protect your own information. October is designated as Cybersecurity Awareness Month and offers excellent resources to help you take steps to make it tougher for anyone to gain your information. Whether it’s keeping patient information private at work or keeping your own personal information away from strangers, you do have control over some of the most common threats.

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Core Medical Group

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a leader in healthcare, you’ve climbed the ladder this far, so you’re probably used to finding jobs on your own. Whether you subscribe to career search engines, scroll endlessly on job sites, or rely on your well-connected network to notify you of openings, finding a new position that feels like the right fit in the right location at the right time can be a challenge.

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Nightingale College

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In a profession as versatile as nursing, every RN has an aspect of the job they find most fulfilling. Some nurses find that the most fulfilling career path involves working with different populations and caring for patients across their lifespans.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Work stressors such as understaffing and shift work hurt nurses’ well-being and sleep—even before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study conducted by researchers from New York University and Yale University. Researchers conducted virtual focus groups with 23 nurses in 2019, asking nurses to describe their sleep, work stress, and performance. Nurses’ Well-being: 3 Key […].

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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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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’ve heard about the field of occupational therapy (OT), but you may not be totally clear on what OTs actually do. In this post, we outline what do occupational therapists do , and—if the profession intrigues you—how you can become an OT. What Is Occupational Therapy? Occupational therapy involves hands-on work helping people improve their quality of life by engaging in activities that matter to them.

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NurseBuff

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Are you looking for cool Halloween costumes for nurses? The “sexy nurse” is an old and tired stereotype. You’ve probably already Googled for nurse costumes and we’ll bet that most of the results show sexy nurse costumes in different states of undress. There’s a lot more things you can dress up as though and we’re here […] The post 19 Easy And Fun Halloween Costumes For Nurses appeared first on NurseBuff.

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Go4

OCTOBER 26, 2022

9 Useful One-Sheets that every school nurse needs. If you’re a school nurse (or work in the industrial setting) you’re responsible for a varied population with assorted ailments. You may also be the only medical provider on campus and the only person with life saving skills. To combat that, Go4 has assembled a book of useful one-sheets for school nurses.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and dBase Media launched the “Emergency Nurses of the Future” video series to promote its new healthy nurse work environment initiative. The series highlights efforts to support emergency nurses in multiple ways – from developing healthier work environments and encouraging self-care to provide tools and resources that bolster patient care. […].

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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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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Whether you’re an aspiring healthcare provider or a seasoned nurse practitioner, you may have considered pursuing a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). What is an MSN degree ? The advanced degree holds immense promise: It can both deepen your nursing knowledge substantially and increase your earning potential. Nurses with an MSN degree bring in $42,000 more annually, per the National Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). 1 What is a typical MSN degree salary–and what are the benefits of an MSN d

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Symplr

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To improve patient safety, we must follow the patient. Healthcare incident reporting, also known as event reporting, used to be about tracking adverse events in hospitals. But hospitals are no longer the center of the healthcare delivery universe, patients are. As providers increasingly administer care and services in outpatient or retail clinics, specialty centers, and via telemedicine, our patient safety and quality improvement tools must adapt as well.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When patients consider what they want in a hospital experience, they are looking for excellent and compassionate care, of course. But as patients think about a hospital experience, they are also looking for a factor many don’t know how to describe. Frequently, says Dr. Jesus Cepero , PhD, RN, NEA-BC and CNO of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health , patients describe wanting to be in an environment that doesn’t have a cold, sterile feeling.

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Premier Medical Staffing

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Job Information Job Profession: 6 Tech Must-Haves for Nurses Job State: Job Location: Job Specialty: Job Assignment: While many of the classic nursing essentials (stethoscope, bandages, etc.) have been around for over a hundred years, there is a new generation of gadgets out there —and they make nurses’ lives much easier. These tech must-haves for nurses are here to assist you both on your shift and at home and can make even the most hectic days on the job that much easier. 1.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Interested in accelerating your nursing career? If you have considered pursuing an advanced nursing education, you may have wondered, what is an MSN degree? A Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree allows practicing nurses to move forward in their careers. MSN-prepared nurses might step into advanced care specialities or an executive or teaching role. 1 A postgraduate degree can be a valuable way to expand your overall knowledge.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently had the privilege of co-presenting a webinar for the American Hospital Association with two colleagues from Memorial Hermann Health System. Memorial Hermann is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and spans 17 hospitals and over 260 care delivery sites with 1.7 million patient encounters per year. Our focus for this webinar was to look at how Memorial Hermann has emerged from the pandemic to reposition itself to successfully move forward in a difficult climate.

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Nightingale College

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There are a few items that you could not do without as a nurse: click pens, a penlight, nursing scissors, good scrubs, comfortable nursing shoes, and a stethoscope. Each of these essential items are vital for you as a nursing professional.

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Joyce

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Wound care nursing is an especially fulfilling practice because you play an active role in helping the body heal. As the demand increases with an aging population, and the prevalence of obesity and diabetes, wound care nurses are in demand. Keep reading to find out what wound care nurses do, if it’s right for you, and how you can get started on the path today.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Occupational therapists (OTs) are a vital part of healthcare. From helping an elderly patient relearn skills after a stroke to aiding a professional recover their strength after a workplace injury, OTs provide invaluable support to people of all ages—and can enjoy a rewarding career in the process. 1 If you’re weighing the idea of pursuing a job as an occupational therapist, you’re likely wondering where your services will be needed—and where your education, training and hard work will pay off t

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Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In the course of many nurses' healthcare careers, witnessing the illness, suffering, and death of others is commonplace. From dialysis and med-surg to home health and the ICU, nurses create therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, providing spiritual and emotional comfort, compassion, and expert skilled care based on many decades of nursing science and evidence-based interventions.

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The Nurse Break

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Difference between a Registered Nurse and an Enrolled Nurse. Make sure to sign up to The Nurse Break quickly before reading on. Click here. It is NOT a RN versus EN situation…that was merely the title of this post. It is also not an easy comparison of apples vs apples. There is no BIG difference. Read on to learn what we mean. If you’re thinking of pursuing a career in nursing, then understanding the difference between an Enrolled Nurse and a Registered Nurse is very important.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Among the countless things learned through the COVID-19 pandemic is the significance of meaningful recognition for nurses for their outstanding skills and the compassion they show patients and families every day. . Meaningful recognition is not a pat on the back, saying “good job” in passing, or a pizza sent to a unit for dinner. It’s not to say that those kinds of things are not appreciated by nurses.

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Penn Medicine News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The new Penn Medicine |Virtua Health Proton Therapy Center in Voorhees will bring the most advanced form of radiation treatment to more patients in the region, closer to home.

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