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There is a Mental Health Crisis in Nursing

The Nursing Site

since 2019. The academic rigors and pressure on students to care for sicker patients with more acute and chronic illness under the eye of their professors, creates a highly stressful environment. COVID and the lockdown in 2019 and 2020 exacerbated mental health issues for nurses with increased anxiety and depression.

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Maryland’s Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit: A Call to Action

American Nurse

Background In 2019, over 80,000 qualified applicants were denied entry into nursing academic programs due to preceptor shortages and other factors (NAPNAP, 2023). These shortages hinder the public’s ability to receive safely staffed access to care. link] NAPNAP Position Statement on Incentivizing APRN Preceptors. RN, Gatiba, P.

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A Passion for Breast Cancer Advocacy and Unique Perspective on Survivorship: Meet The Pink Warrior 

Daily Nurse

According to the CDC, close to 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men each year, and Courtney Shihabuddin DNP, APRN-CNP, was one of those women in 2020. Courtney Shihabuddin DNP , APRN-CNP, is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, educator and breast cancer survivor.

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Nurses with Disabilities: A Skilled Workforce

Minority Nurse

Maheady, EdD, APRN-BC , founder of ExceptionalNurse.com. What about my self-esteem, self-identity, self-worth, and self-confidence? GPA) in 2019 and, after receiving improved Bluetooth processors in 2021, sent out more than 400 applications with little result. You think about, ‘ who am I now?

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Keeping Burnout at Bay 

Minority Nurse

It can rob you of the joy of caring and potentially deprive your patients of the care they need. At the same time, NPs deliver more of the care patients receive in the U.S., Kapu, DNP, APRN , ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN, immediate past president of the AANP. What are we doing in terms of self-care?”

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Nursing’s role in lifestyle medicine

American Nurse

The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation 2019 Global Burden of Disease Report, which analyzed data from almost 200 countries, found that what people eat (and fail to eat) is the leading cause of disease and death. ACLM sponsors lifestyle medicine interest groups, which include nurse members, and one specifically for RNs and APRNs.

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Connecting the dots with cannabis care

American Nurse

Kim King Kim King, MSN, FNP-C, who consults on cannabis care through her business, Thrive to Care and Wellness Education Consulting, hopes to see cannabis education added to nursing program curricula in the next 5 years. We’ve got to educate all nurses, from LPNs to RNs to APRNs,” she said.

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