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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. This is the state of nursing. February 27, 2019.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Kendra Coles

Minority Nurse

Since 2019, Coles has been Director of Women’s & Children’s Services at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (UM BWMC). Nurses experienced compassion fatigue, burnout, and difficulty finding work-life balance. Subsequently, the nursing shortage grew, and we continue to rebuild the nursing workforce.

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Patient care assistant training

American Nurse

In response to this feedback, nursing and hospital and developed an in-house training program that reduced the time and costs associated with new PCA education. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that 195,400 RNs will leave the nursing profession from 2021 to 2031. Ambler, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2019.

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Mentorship: A strategy for nursing retention

American Nurse

Mentoring programs can strengthen the nursing workforce sustainably from within the profession. Learning Objectives Explain the ramifications of current nurse turnover rates. Define the differences between mentorship and preceptor programs, and the benefits of implementing a mentorship program. Nursing shortage fact sheet.

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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

Nurse leaders from a mid-Atlantic 12-hospital health system reviewed best practices for improving unit outcomes and identified a need for modified care delivery models. A care delivery model redesign, featuring licensed practical nurses) in an expert-led team-based approach was measured for success. J Nurses Prof Dev.

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Melanie Bales: A School Nurse Career Path

Minority Nurse

Bales, MSN, BSN, RN, CMS , is nursing supervisor in Georgia’s Cobb County School District and a member of the Georgia Association of School Nurses (President 2019-2022) and the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). “Some of the biggest challenges are staff shortages,” says Bales.