Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Adapting to a new hospital can be challenging for a clinician who has previously worked in a different healthcare setting. There are, however, several practical steps you can take to smoothly transition into your new work environment. With a little bit of effort, you can quickly adjust to your new environment, effectively connecting with your new team members and providing the best care possible for your patients.

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Josephine Ensign

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Yesterday, at a community homelessness resource and health fair where I was faculty preceptor for a footcare clinic with some of our medical and nursing students, I was reminded of the powerful role of libraries in the lives of people experiencing homelessness. Among the tables and tents offering warm winter coats, gloves, hats, behavioral health resources, pizza, bagels, coffee, haircuts, youth shelter and women’s day shelter services, and our footcare, the University Branch of the Seattl

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Everyone, including healthcare workers are targets for fraudsters. Learn tactics scammers use and gain the knowledge to protect yourself, your license, and your practice. Scams and fraud are on the rise, and healthcare has been identified by the FBI as targets. In this episode, I’m talking about how you, as an individual in healthcare may be targeted by scammers to release your own personal information or to inadvertently give someone access to protected healthcare information.

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Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN In the past, courage has not been recognized as an important attribute for nurse leaders. This is changing. In my recent conversations with current nurse leaders about what our future leaders will need, the ability to act courageously is increasingly part of the discussion. Without question, innovation […] The post Showing Courage in Leadership Roles appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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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.

Communication

Donna Cardillo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Jan came from a highly dysfunctional family. One day at age 14, after a physical altercation with her drug-addicted mother and years of abuse and neglect, she decided to take her own life by swallowing downers she had accumulated from her mother’s stash and a bottle of gin. She was found unconscious in the girls’ … Jan’s Story Read More » The post Jan’s Story first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sleep-related hypoxia is associated with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) across three different hypoxia measurements and after adjustment for impairment of pulmonary physiology. So finds a retrospective analysis of sleep studies in more than 42,000 patients conducted at Cleveland Clinic over 15 years. “Our findings in a large sample implicate sleep-related hypoxia as an important biological pathway of AF and identify exposure to it as a clinically relevant driver of AF risk,” says first author

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Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN From AONL research on the nurse manager role, we know that managing staff conflicts is one of the top five activities and least favorite ways leaders spend their time. Consider this situation a nurse manager recently raised during a seminar: My staff don’t want to navigate their […] The post Helping Staff to Navigate Their Conflicts appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

At the age of 10, Hannah McCullough, BSN, got a glimpse of her dream job as a pediatric oncology nurse. As a child, she spent hours caring for her brother at his bedside at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital following a brain cancer diagnosis and being amazed by how the nurses took time out of their day to spend time with him. McCullough recalls how they focused on him as a whole person, which she found special.

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Holistic Care Business Communication 116

Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Trinity Health uses virtual care, teamwork to address workforce, clinical care issues. Trinity Health is taking a team approach in redesigning care delivery inside the hospital, using a three-person model that includes nurses, nursing assistants, and virtual care technology. Gay Landstrom, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAONL, FACHE, FAAN , chief nursing officer for the Michigan-based health system with 101 hospitals in 27 states, says the model, piloted in the summer of 2022 and is now live in roughly 40 sit

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) welcomed Stephen A. Ferrara , DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, as the organization’s new president, taking the reigns from former AANP President April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN in late-June. Ferrara is a busy man, wearing many hats. He’s an actively practicing NP in New York and a member of the senior leadership team at Columbia University’s School of Nursing, serving as the associate dean of clinical affairs and assistant profes

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Hospitals have reduced healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) for the first time since they reached a five-year high during the pandemic in 2020. The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit patient-safety organization, said the data it collected from Oct. 2021 through Dec. 2022 show 85% of hospitals improved their infection rate on at least one of the three HAIs it tracks — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urin

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The heart is a crucial part of our life and our world. There are songs about it, movies that focus on it—at least the love part, and without it, unlike other organs, we wouldn’t be able to survive. So, what’s it like to be a nurse focusing on patient care with the heart? We interviewed Caitlin Fetner RN, BSN, Cardiac nurse, University of Maryland Capital Region Health.

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Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The idea that nursing is not a career but a calling is "false and misleading" and may be an underlying cause of burnout and compassion fatigue in the field, Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, wrote in an opinion piece published on Daily Nurse.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Earning an advanced degree offers nurses immediate career benefits, including skills and knowledge they’ll apply to their work long before graduation. But advanced degrees, including the designation as a nurse practitioner (NP), also offer study nuances that propel careers forward and present opportunities that weren’t available before. Nurses who pursue an NP with a master’s of nursing degree find, in particular, that the additional credential offers a level of autonomy leadin

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Search “gratitude” across the ANA Enterprise and you’re in for some great reading and recommendations. Gratitude, or “Vitamin G” in my nursing practice of staff well-being, is an interesting intervention. My expressions of gratitude appear well-received and welcomed. People connect to my appreciation. Coaching others to embrace the self-care and team-care practice of gratitude is heard but doesn’t appear to be heeded.

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Self-Care 111

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Recently, on LinkedIn, a heartfelt nurse colleague wrote that a nurse had posted something so painfully wrong-headed that she just had to respond. The nurse had written that nursing is not a career; it’s a calling and that any nurse who leaves the bedside is committing murder against patients. This shocking statement belies a sentiment that all too many nurses walk the earth feeling: that they must sacrifice everything for patients, even their health and peace of mind.

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Self-Care 112

Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Stress, burnout and frustration in the workplace have resulted in workforce trends such as "quiet quitting" and "rage applying," and hospitals are taking aim at the issues that give rise to these movements.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

If the health sector were a country, it would be the fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet, according to the international nongovernmental organization Health Care Without Harm. Alexandra Melnyk, MD, MEd , a physician at Cleveland Clinic’s Ob/Gyn Institute, is on a mission to decrease the carbon footprint of patient care, beginning in the operating room, where she specializes in pelvic reconstructive surgery.

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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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Penn Medicine News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Both Kate Korson and her mother Marcy are part of the Abramson Cancer Center’s long legacy of clinical research. Kate recently shared her clinical trial experience with a national audience on Good Morning America.

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American Nurse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As nurses, we routinely use quality-improvement tools such as the plan-do-check-act cycle to refine our practice to benefit patients. Proofreading is a quality-improvement tool for our writing efforts, but it’s a step that frequently receives only cursory attention. After all, we worked hard in crafting our article, writing and editing to make our points clear.

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Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The healthcare sector as a whole received $333.3 billion in philanthropic donations between 2015 and 2022. But despite nursing being one of the largest groups of clinicians, nurses received only 1% of those donations, according to a Nov. 15 report released by the American Nurses Foundation.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A novel short-interfering RNA (siRNA) therapy known as lepodisiran reduced levels of lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)) below the lowest limit of quantitation for nearly nine months in a first-in-human phase 1 trial. The study, presented by Steven Nissen, MD , in a late-breaking science session at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2023 and simultaneously published online in JAMA , represents the most potent and durable Lp(a)-lowering effect with any therapy reported to date.

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Advances in Nursing Science

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The current ANS featured article is titled “Illuminating the Contributions of African American Nurse Scientists Despite Structural Racism Barriers: A Qualitative Descriptive Study” authored by Marie Campbell Statler, PhD, RN; Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN; Jeanita W. Richardson, PhD; Randy A. Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN; and Susan Kools, PhD, RN, FAAN.

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American Nurse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

About a year ago, one of my graduating students gave me a fan with this Korean text 선생님 사랑해요 , which translates to “I love you teacher.” I’m told that it’s customary in Korea to give the teacher a small token of appreciation for a positive educational experience. Another time, on the last day of school, a Thai student gifted me a lunch box with homemade coconut rice topped with mangoes.

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Nurses Advocates

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 24, 2023, I will remember 9 years of being a cancer patient. I am grateful that I am here! But rest assured, there is not a day that goes by that I forget I am a cancer patient. I often wonder if people with other chronic medical conditions are so acutely aware of their disease and think about it and how it changed their lives. I would think they would, as having a chronic medical or mental health condition changes who you are.

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Mental Health Education 105

Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nursing does not always get the glory that it deserves and sometimes gets portrayed in a negative light, but it is one of the best professions in the world. If you are a nurse looking to make an impact, you surely can. Here are five ways you can make a positive impact in the nursing profession. 1. Join a Nursing Organization There are many nursing organizations, from local, state, and national.

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Nursology

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Deadline for submission: December 1, 2023 midnight EST The theme for the 2024 Virtual Nursology Theory conference will be “Nursology Theory Think Tanks for the Future.” As you develop your abstract, consider pressing questions and issues that call for creative and innovative approaches and that prompt collective discussion and solutions based on the fundamental knowledge … Continue reading Reminder!

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Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Nurse practitioners and faculty Kristen Brown and Lisa Stambolis represent two different ends of the pediatric practitioner spectrum —acute care and community health. But after decades spent with youth from birth to 22, in various stages of health, there’s much to talk about. Our goal in the ICU is to get them better, get them… The post From Health at Home to ICU, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners Talk About the Care Continuum appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

by Aditi Patel, MD , Sameep Sehgal, MD , Kristin Highland, MD A female in her 60s was referred to our rheumatology clinic after she reported a history of new onset Raynaud phenomenon for two months. In addition, she reported hand puffiness, heartburn, dyspnea on exertion and a rash laterally over her thighs. The examination revealed puffy hands, erythema around the nailbeds, rash over the lateral aspect of her thighs (above), weak proximal hip muscles, and crackles at the base of the lung fields

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NRC Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Gundersen Health System and M Health Fairview are among the NRC Health partners that have implemented the HUme into their patient experience surveys. Supporting this effort with intentional strategies to engage leaders and teams, these systems are now enjoying unprecedented increases in NPS. The post How the Human Understanding Metric + strategy boosts NPS appeared first on NRC Health.

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Nursology

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Contributor: Mary Elaine Southard I was outside this evening when a beautiful occurrence caught my eye. A flock of hundreds of birds did a dance of a murmuration. I watched in awe at this phenomenon and wondered about its significance.

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Empowered Nurses

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Last week, the jury returned a verdict in the case of Maya Kowalski. I have previously written about Maya Kowalski, who was a 10-year-old girl at the at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospitals in Tampa, Florida. Maya had suffered from Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and was receiving Ketamine treatments which reduces the sensation of pain even though they cannot stop it all together.

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Post University

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since Bobbi Handy was a little girl, she knew she wanted to be a nurse. When she headed to college in the late 1980s, however, the Charleston, South Carolina, native talked herself out of her dream. She left the university where she’d started and enrolled in an associate degree in business administration program at the technical college in her hometown, Trident Technical College, and graduated in 1989.

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