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Nursing Roles Beyond the Bedside

Nurse.com

For the first time, RN turnover has exceeded the hospital average for turnover, and in 2021, RNs exited the bedside at a staggering rate. It’s crucial that efforts are being made to accommodate the needs of nurses in order to keep them in this essential profession. What’s causing bedside nursing burnout?

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Is Nursing Heading for Collapse?

Daily Nurse

Despite being the country’s largest healthcare profession [2] , nurses overwhelmingly feel undervalued, understaffed, and underappreciated. And after Covid-19, they’re walking away from the bedside. This Mayo Clinic study from 2021 surveyed the pandemic’s impact on clinicians. Many were under 35 and employed in hospitals [4].

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To Build the Workforce, We Need More Nurse Educators

Nurse.com

At a time when more growth is essential in the nursing workforce, the need for nurse educators has had an impact on nursing students in a variety of ways. The AACN said in its 2021–2022 Enrollment and Graduations in Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing report that 91,938 qualified applications to U.S.

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Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

The solution To help bedside nurses effectively communicate with patients, families, and providers in preparation for discharge, an interprofessional team at our organization developed a six-question discharge-planning assessment tool, which we piloted on the medical-surgical unit. December 1, 2021. Is the pharmacy open?

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: A quality improvement initiative

American Nurse

We used the current NAS protocol but added evidence-based nonpharmacologic interventions such as breastfeeding and rooming-in, as well as NAS nurse education, to improve the current protocol and ensure its appropriate use. Other organizations can adapt this project to their individualized needs.

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Meet The RN Advocating For Disabled Candidates

Diversity Nursing

Even with her Nursing degree it was difficult to find work. " I once went through 76 clinical Nursing interviews. The rejection from ever having a bedside Nursing position was flipped on its head as my wheelchair was seen for what it is: a mobility device", said Dalzell in an American Nurses Association interview.

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Why I go to the office

American Nurse

A 2021 prospective cohort study with a 10-year follow up reported that among Black and White men and women in middle adulthood (average age 45), those who took approximately 7,000 steps a day or more experienced lower mortality rates compared to participants taking fewer than 7,000 steps a day. A 2006 U.S.