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A Time to Look Out for YOUR Own Safety

Nurses Advocates

What has been alarming is the reaction from the public that the killing was based on how healthcare insurance companies are using cost-cutting methods to deny care to people to increase profits for the C-Suite and shareholders. Insurance companies’ mandates appear to put profit before safe patient care.

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How Nurses Can Protect Their Mental Health: Smart Self-Care Strategies to Prevent Burnout

Minority Nurse

Nurses must take deliberate steps toward self-care, not as a luxury but as a necessity for staying grounded and effective. When you decline a request that exceeds your bandwidth, you create space for quality care, both for patients and for yourself. Self-care isn’t selfish—it’s the oxygen mask you need to keep going.

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Masters in Nursing (MSN) Salary and Highest-Paid Jobs

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Program Information Request Information Nurse Administrator Salaries If you’re seeking a leadership role, you can become a nurse administrator. CRNAs provide leadership to the anesthesia team while ensuring patient safety and optimal care through advanced technical expertise and clinical judgment.

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Self Care and Wellness: Taking Your Own Pulse

Nurses Advocates

Self-care and wellness are essential competencies for all of us, but especially for healthcare workers and, more specifically, nurses. As Nurse Case Managers, we have a huge responsibility and great pressure to do our jobs well. Nurses are trained to care for others, yet we often neglect our well-being.

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Nurses Month 2023

American Nurse

Now more than ever, celebrate nursing YOU make a difference Despite all of the strife and challenges around the world—including pandemics, war, and violence—nurses are there, everywhere, caring for patients. Nurses make a difference by ensuring quality patient care.

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Nurses with Disabilities: A Skilled Workforce

Minority Nurse

But for nurses who become disabled while already working as a nurse, McCulloh says there ’ s often an adjustment phase. “ What about my self-esteem, self-identity, self-worth, and self-confidence? She obtained her MSN in nursing education (with a 4.0 You think about, ‘ who am I now?

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How CMS’ TEAM Initiative Helps Prevent Surgical Readmissions With Better Wound Care

Relias

Patients unplanned returns to the hospital after discharge drive up costs, disrupt recovery, and reflect gaps in care. Under HRRP, hospitals received financial penalties if their readmission rates exceeded the national average a move that drove greater attention to discharge protocols and transitional care.