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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

When nurses participate, changes can be made to benefit patients and staff, which can contribute to shorter hospital stays, lower overall costs, and increased family and patient satisfaction. Alyssa King, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHNP-BC, CLC, CNE is a Nurse Planner in Lake City, Fla. This is the state of nursing.

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Paramedics help alleviate ED staffing issues

American Nurse

These unlicensed persons have not completed nursing education programs or met other licensing requirements. In many instances, substitutions of unlicensed personnel for licensed nurses clearly violates state nurse practice acts. In many instances, the paramedic shares most of the same job responsibilities as the nurse.

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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

The impact on nurse and patient satisfaction Takeaways: Challenged by the insufficient pipeline of clinical nurses required to backfill the vacancies created by the COVID-19 pandemic, current care delivery models require redesign. Poindexter highlighted the “great resignation” during the pandemic.

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6 Qualities That Embody a Good Nurse

Nurse.com

Similar sentiments often come in the form of: Patient satisfaction surveys. Letters or statements from grateful patients. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in March 2019 and has been updated with new content. The post 6 Qualities That Embody a Good Nurse appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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Mentorship: A strategy for nursing retention

American Nurse

Confident and engaged employees provide high-quality nursing care, which impacts patient satisfaction and reimbursement rates. Nurse Educ Pract. New nurse graduate residency mentoring: A retrospective cross-sectional research study. Nurse Educ Pract. 2019(40):102616. See Success stories.)

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Virtual reality: Treating pain and anxiety

American Nurse

Before initiating nurse education, we conducted several dry runs to preemptively address any potential issues or barriers that might surface during the actual implementation. To determine patient-reported outcomes, we worked with the organization’s nursing quality, nursing informatics, and nursing practice stakeholders.

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Top Issues in Nursing — and How Nurse Leaders Can Address Them

Post University

Many nurses are happy to put up with long hours and difficult patients in exchange for the camaraderie they find with other health care workers and the joy of working as part of a team toward a common goal. Unfortunately, a significant share of nurses find not camaraderie, but rather, hostility in the workplace.