Nurse Practitioners in Business

JULY 18, 2024

As nurse practitioners (NPs), we often find ourselves navigating a complex relationship with collaborating physicians. While collaboration, when needed, is essential for optimal patient care, the requirement for formal collaboration agreements in some states has sparked debate within our profession. Having practiced in a full practice state, I’ve experienced the benefits of voluntary collaboration.

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Emerging RN Leader

JUNE 16, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN All of us make mistakes – myself included. As I often tell new leaders, while reflecting on things you don’t want to repeat is good, don’t ruminate about them. Below are five common leadership mistakes to avoid to improve your leadership: 1. Listening to respond rather than […] The post Five Leadership Mistakes You May Be Making appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Donna Cardillo

JULY 23, 2024

I’m feeling like I want to cry, need a good cry—release, tears of joy, tears of anguish—the yin and the yang of life. It’s OK to cry for both sides, embrace the dark and the light; one supports the other. You are beloved and whole because of it. You feel, you fall, you pick yourself […] The post On Crying first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN.

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Josephine Ensign

JULY 23, 2024

I am grateful for the first reviews of my newest book, Way Home: Journeys Through Homelessness , now available for pre-order. Here are the book’s description and the reviews: Can one city’s solutions to homelessness help the United States face the issue nationally? The United States grapples with a solution for the unhoused by employing a patchwork of uneven rhetoric and policy.

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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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Becker's Hospital Review

APRIL 10, 2024

The U.S. has an all-time record number of actively licensed nurses — 5.6 million — but hospitals are struggling to recruit and retain enough. To discover missed opportunities, researchers surveyed 7,887 nurses who recently exited the healthcare industry.

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Nursing Times

JULY 17, 2024

Black nurses have been left “broken” by the nursing regulator, due to the sheer number of disproportionate referrals and discrimination they face, a protest has heard.

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Consult QD

JANUARY 23, 2024

For the first time, Cleveland Clinic surgeons orchestrated a nearly simultaneous robotic single-port (SP) kidney transplant procedure for a donor and recipient using one robot. In 2019, Cleveland Clinic became the first in the world to perform an SP robotic-assisted kidney transplantation successfully. Now, a recent Cleveland Clinic case shows that with appropriate planning, coordination and attention to detail, both donor and recipient can benefit from the same SP robot.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Allyship is a frequently used term that may not be fully understood. The National Institutes of Health considers allyship a lifelong process in which meaningful relationships build trust and accountability. The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing (the Commission) defines allyship as an ethical duty intended to eliminate harmful acts, words, and deeds and support those not traditionally heard.

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Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

The trend continues with nursing ranked as the most trusted profession in America for the 22nd time this century. According to a recent Gallup Poll, 78 percent of U.S. adults rated their trust in nursing professionals as “high” or “very high.” However, overall trust in the profession has fallen since it’s peak in 2020 during… The post Nursing Named Most Trusted Profession for 22nd Consecutive Year appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 10, 2024

The Supreme Court's decision will impact patients receiving care through Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP. The United States Supreme Court recently overturned the long-standing Chevron deference doctrine, which held that courts should defer to agency interpretations of statutes that fall under the particular agency's purview, when the interpretation is reasonable, and the meaning of a statute is not made explicitly clear by Congress.

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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

Nurse Practitioners in Business

MARCH 17, 2024

Do you have a fair amount of outstanding patient balances and difficulties collecting? Well, you’re not alone. It’s common, particularly in small practices, to struggle with collecting money from patients. Most patients never blink an eye when asked for their co-pay, deductible, or other balances. They do everything they can to pay on time and in full.

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Emerging RN Leader

MAY 15, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN During the next three months, health systems nationwide will begin to transition new graduates into their practice settings. This year’s new graduates have had more direct clinical time than nurses who graduated in previous years. Still, their current skills will not be enough for hospitals’ high-acuity and […] The post What Your New Graduates Need From You appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Nursology

JULY 9, 2024

Contributor – Nicole DePace MS, APRN, GNP-BC, ACHPN In “Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change the World,” journalist Sarah DiGregorio explores what it means to be a nurse, examining the past and present with a hopeful gaze toward the future.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Selena Gilles, DNP, ANP-BC, CNEcl, FNYAM, is a Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Programs at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She’s also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), where she serves as Co-Director of the HIGN Scholars Program, an Affiliate Associate Professor at Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and a Volunteer Associate Professor for the State University o

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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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Becker's Hospital Review

APRIL 5, 2024

A growing proportion of nurses say incidents of violence and aggression they face on the job have become routine. As a result, many are considering an exit from the profession altogether.

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Nursing Times

JULY 8, 2024

Read about the findings of a damning independent review into the Nursing and Midwifery Council's internal culture.

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Equality 4 Black Nurses

MAY 19, 2024

Unveiling Systemic Inequities The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) is under scrutiny following allegations of harassment, systemic inequity and race discrimination by Miss Evelyn Mensah, a Black female consultant ophthalmologist. Miss Mensah, a trailblazer who made history as the first Black woman to serve as the RCOphth Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), has courageously shared her troubling experiences within the organisation, shedding light on significant issues of ac

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Consult QD

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has long been one of the largest in the nation, but it recently surpassed a growth marker never before achieved in its distinguished history: the hiring of four new staff surgeons within a 12-month period. The new surgeons — who are individually profiled below — have given the department an unprecedented degree of diversity while also enhancing its bench strength.

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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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American Nurse

MAY 2, 2024

The story of a nurse who overcame assumptions, bias, and challenges Takeaways: Media and healthcare organizations portray fully able-bodied individuals as the norm for performing the nursing role. Frequent interaction with the healthcare system might inspire someone with a physical disability to pursue a nursing career. Andrea Dalzell, MSN, RN, shares her story of applying for and attending nursing school.

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Scrubs

JULY 19, 2024

A drug has been shown to extend the lifespan of laboratory mice by nearly 25%, offering promising implications for human aging. Treated mice, nicknamed “supermodel grannies” for their youthful appearance, were healthier, stronger, and developed fewer cancers than their untreated peers. Researchers from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Science, Imperial College London, and Duke-NUS Medical School focused on interleukin-11, a protein that increases with age and contributes to inflammation.

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Nurses Advocates

JULY 15, 2024

As a new retiree, I reflect on how I prepared to be where I am today. Looking back, I realized that I started preparing when I was 30. It was 1984, and I was working for a Risk Management Company. 401Ks were being introduced by employers. The company I worked for had a financial planner come in and talk to the staff about how investments worked. He helped us decide how much we wanted to invest each pay period and how that money would grow over time.

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

MAY 3, 2024

Small practices are at risk for HIPAA violations. Here are the 5 most common types and their consequences. Are you prepared? HIPAA, aka the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, requires providers and healthcare organizations to protect patient health information. The official definition of HIPAA is: “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient healt

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Emerging RN Leader

MARCH 20, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN To economize, many health systems are eliminating nursing leadership roles, impacting numerous loyal, hard-working nurse leaders. How do you leave a difficult job situation without conveying anger? I recently talked with a leader who found herself in this situation. She understood that the decision was not personal […] The post Planning a Graceful Exit appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Nursology

JULY 2, 2024

There are many reasons, in this year of 2024, for people worldwide to be reflecting on the meaning of freedom. Ongoing wars between nation groups bring into sharp focus the reality of power imbalances that encroach on the freedoms of those with less power.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2024

Busy nurses don ’ t always seek out professional organizations or groups dedicated to nursing, and for valid reasons. They need more time or energy to devote to a group, the meetings are inconvenient, or they see it as an extension of work. However, joining a nursing community is one of the most powerful personal and career moves a nurse can make. “The importance of community is relevant to nurses at all levels of their careers,” says Gloria E.

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Becker's Hospital Review

APRIL 15, 2024

Enrollment in BSN programs at nursing schools across the U.S. held steady in 2023, though fewer students are entering in master's and PhD programs, according to new data from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

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Nursing Times

JULY 11, 2024

Read more about a protest that has been organised over the discrimination that minority ethnic nurses have faced by the NMC.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 15, 2024

Concerns of a nationwide nursing shortage have loomed for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only fast-tracked the profession toward crisis. Nursing is integral to safe healthcare delivery, and the threat of a nursing shortage should concern everyone. When it comes to patient safety, nurses are the nervous system of a hospital. They sense, perceive, connect, communicate, and solve.

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Consult QD

JANUARY 17, 2024

Electronic cigarettes entered the U.S. market in 2007, with manufacturers touting their safety. Recent research led by Cleveland Clinic pediatric pulmonologist Fariba Rezaee, MD , raises doubts about those claims. E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that incorporate aerosolized liquid mixtures of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavorings and/or nicotine.

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American Nurse

APRIL 9, 2024

Diversity in innovation is critical not only for the creation of solutions that meet everyone’s needs, but to bring a wide range of professional and lived experiences to the process. However, a 2016 study by Nager and colleagues of the demographic make-up of innovation in the United States found that women represented just 12% of all innovators. Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and other races represented just 8%.

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Scrubs

JULY 17, 2024

San Diego, CA — Nurses at Rady Children’s Hospital have voted to authorize a strike from July 22 to July 24, following months of unsuccessful contract negotiations. The decision comes after the United Nurses of Children’s Hospital (UNOCH), the Teamsters union representing over 1,500 nurses, announced the vote on July 11. The union’s leadership delivered a 10-day notice to the hospital, as required by federal labor law, signaling their intent to walk off the job Reasons for the Strike

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Equality 4 Black Nurses

JULY 14, 2024

The recent Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Independent Culture REVIEW has exposed a shocking and urgent issue within our healthcare system: Systemic racism against Black nurses. This revelation has sent ripples through our community, igniting a call to action. We invite nurses, doctors, carers, and members of the public to join us in a powerful protest demanding justice and equality.

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Amercan Journal of Nursing

JUNE 14, 2024

The salary gap between clinical and faculty roles. Photo by AXP Photography on Unsplash There is a national shortage of nursing faculty to educate the future nurse workforce. The biggest barrier to recruiting and retaining nursing faculty is the salary gap between the faculty and clinical nursing roles. Nurses routinely take pay cuts of as much as $40,000 when leaving clinical practice to teach full-time.

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