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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

To increase interprofessional awareness, unit leaders presented the new model to the hospital management team. LPN recruitment and training In the second quarter of 2022, we began recruiting, hiring, and training LPNs using our hospital system’s current orientation process and competency tool.

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Baby Seal Robots Are Comforting Older Adults on Penn Presbyterian’s Acute Care Unit

Penn Nursing

She pitched the idea to hospital management, got the green light, and in 2019 launched a study to see if the Paros could decrease patient agitation and pain symptoms. “I thought these robots were the most ridiculous things I had ever seen,” Cacchione said, “until I actually picked one up and felt it and interacted with it myself.”