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The Relentless School Nurse: A Heartfelt Retirement Speech With an Advocacy Message

The Relentless School Nurse

We co-chaired the New Jersey State School Nurses Association (NJSSNA) Spring Conference in 2019, before the world shut down. I have seen Kathy blossom from a novice school nurse to one of New Jersey’s most valued school nurse leaders, and now to her much deserved retirement. Nurses never really retire, especially school nurses.

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CPNP-PC Exam Replaces Retired PPCNP-BC Exam

Board Vitals - Nursing

According to a joint statement by the PNCB and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC): “Due to a continual low volume of test takers and the availability of the PNCB certification, the ANCC Commission on Certification decided to retire the PPCNP-BC certification. Those are the details of this most recent exam change.

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Government’s Chief Medical Officer announces retirement plans

Nursing Review

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of the Department of Health and Aged Care, Professor Paul Kelly, has announced his intentions to retire by the end of the month.

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The Strategies One Nursing School Used to Combat Workplace Incivility

Health Leaders | Nursing

However, the faculty admitted their desire for a civil environment where they could experience joy in the workplace, so in May 2019, five nursing faculty launched an effort to address incivility and identify and implement effective strategies to create a civil environment so faculty could experience joy at work, according to the study.

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Critical Nursing Shortage Jeopardizes the Health of our Communities, Pending NYS Bill Can Help

Daily Nurse

This has resulted in large numbers of nurses and other healthcare workers retiring or simply leaving the profession. These statistics help illustrate the magnitude of the problem: From 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for nursing personnel increased up to 30%, and the trend is expected to persist, with an estimated shortage of up to 3.2

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Rhonda Trotter Fulfills Dream of Becoming a Nurse – 35 Years Later

Daily Nurse

After retiring from the Postal Service in 2018, she enrolled in nursing school in January 2019. She eventually went back to school to get her nursing degree, but then both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer weeks apart, and Trotter stepped back again to take care of them.

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Travel Nursing Pre and Post-Pandemic

The Gypsy Nurse

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a bright light on the ongoing shortage — a shortage due in part to nurses retiring, a lack of nurse educators, and an aging patient population living longer with chronic medical conditions. In fact, a study conducted in 2019-2020 (pre-pandemic) by Rachel French, Ph.D.,