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The Relentless School Nurse: An Unexpected Honor! HealthImpact DAISY Nurse Leader in Policy Award

The Relentless School Nurse

Nurses are often at the forefront of creating and driving policy that assures this compassionate environment for individuals and communities. In 2020, the DAISY Foundation partnered with HealthImpact to create an award to honor nurses whose work advances compassionate care in policy.

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Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

Nurses who are leaving the bedside aren’t retirement age. Analysis from 2022 found that the total number of registered nurses decreased by more than 100,000 between 2020 and 2021 –the most significant observed drop in the past 40 years. The nurses who should be the profession’s future are leaving it behind.

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Examining Public Perception of Nurses

American Nurse

Why “trust” nurses? While brainstorming this essay with a colleague, she wondered whether the relational, as opposed to transactional, nature of bedside nursing (RNs don’t charge the patients directly for care rendered) might partly explain why nurses are seen as more ethical than physicians, stockbrokers, and car salespeople.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) reported that an estimated 100,000 (to as many as 200,000) RNs and 34,000 licensed practical (LPNs) and vocational nurses left the workforce over the past 2 years. Where have all the nurses gone? The reason?

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The Nursing Shortage: Looking Ahead to 2023

Nurse.com

The percentage of nurses considering changing employers was 17% (up from 11% from 2020). down from 26 years in 2020). For every bedside nurse who is lost, hospitals incur $46,100 in cost. The average number of years of experience was 22.5 With vacancy rates are at all-time highs.

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: A quality improvement initiative

American Nurse

A 2020 report by the Academy of American Pediatrics (AAP) found that no established universal protocol exists to effectively treat NAS. The 2020 AAP report found that the increase in NAS has been proportional to increased opioid use and misuse. 2020-029074 Patrick SW, Schumacher RE, Horbar JD, et al. See Signs and symptoms.)

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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

The issue raises the idea that nurses may benefit from having interventions implemented by hospitals to help decrease burnout rates and improve job satisfaction in nurses, therefore improving desired outcomes for patients. Nurses leaving the bedside may result in units being left short staffed. 2020; Romppanen et al.,