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Alabama Veterans Affairs Nurse Earns Bachelor of Science in Nursing Via SIMPath® in 16 Weeks

Post University

A Move to the Veterans Health Care System In 2019, Teri joined the Veterans Affairs (VA) Central Alabama Health Care System as an emergency department nurse and moved to per diem nursing (PRN)status with Jackson Hospital. I loved working in the ICU, because you learn so much about patient-centered care, she says.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. First and foremost, nurses require better pay.

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: A quality improvement initiative

American Nurse

Erica Fonseca is a former bedside nurse at Childrens Hospital of San Antonio and North Central Baptist, in San Antonio, Texas; shes currently a neonatal nurse practitioner with the Pediatrix Medical Group in Houston, Texas. February 7, 2019. Other organizations can adapt this project to their individualized needs.

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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., 2019, Forsyth et al., 2020; Romppanen et al., 2017; Zhang et al.,

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NCLEX vs Next Generation

American Nurse

Success requires perseverance The NGN presents an exciting new challenge by mimicking the lifesaving decision making required of bedside nurses, who make complex critical judgments that require careful problem solving. doi:10.3928/01484834-20190122-03 National Council of State Boards of Nursing. See Resources.) J Nurs Educ.

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Preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries

American Nurse

A hospital in New York responded to its high HAPI rate by evaluating nurse PI knowledge and implementing an ed­ucational plan designed to address gaps among both experienced and new nurses. The why At the end of June 2019, the HAPI rate at Glens Falls Hospital (GFH), a 291-bed community hospital in northern New York, was 0.68

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Bachelor of science in nursing: What to consider

American Nurse

Magnet designation comes with new requirements and expectations with regard to nursing practice. As healthcare evolves and becomes more complicated, the roles and responsibilities of bedside nurses will change and require enhanced clinical and critical thinking skills. March 9, 2022. pdf Graystone R. J Nurs Adm. doi:10.1097/NNA.0000000000000547