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Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Importance of Top-of-License Utilization

Daily Nurse

With ongoing challenges like staffing shortages, high turnover, and burnout, healthcare organizations are rethinking how they deliver care to better support nurses and improve patient outcomes. Listening to Nurses: The Key to Progress Healthcare leaders must truly listen to their nurses to make top-of-license utilization a reality.

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Levels of Nursing Explained

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

In general, different levels of nursing fall into three categories: non-degree, degree and advanced degree. Non-degree nurses include certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) who complete nursing-level education programs that don’t culminate in a degree. The University of St.

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AI Lightens Nurses’ Workloads, Restoring Work-Life Balance

Daily Nurse

As AI advances, nurses expertise will be vital in developing tools that uphold patient safety, equity, and ethics standards. When AI is seen as a partner, not a replacement, nurses are empowered to work at the top of their license, upholding the contract that is the foundation of their professiontheir duty to patients and to themselves.

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Your Nursing Career: Intention and Attention

Daily Nurse

For example, when it comes to earning CEUS, you may pay precious little attention to the kind of learning that feels mindlessly done in order to renew a certification or license. Then again, working with your nursing mentor may be a place where you apply rapt attention and personal resources.

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Nurse.com and HOLLIBLU Join Together To Grow Nurse Community

Nurse.com

According to our 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report , 29% of nurses (across all licenses) are considering leaving the profession, compared to only 11% in our 2020 survey. This percentage can be attributed to different factors, including staffing concerns and nurse burnout. Cara Lunsford, RN.

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Attention Nurses: It’s Time to Prioritize Mental Health in the Workplace!

Daily Nurse

We sat down with Jeannine Raymond , RN, MS, chief nurse executive at Nursa , to discuss the pressures and hazards facing nurses around mental health, the role schedule flexibility plays, how health systems can identify nurse burnout before it progresses, and the benefits needed to keep nurses healthy.

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Late-Night Nursing: How To Stay Alert and Safe

Minority Nurse

For those riding with Uber or Lyft , follow these tips to stay safe: Verify the driver’s identity and the make, model, and license plate of the car; Share trip details with a trusted person; Sit in the back seat; Make sure the child lock is turned off; Don’t share your personal information.