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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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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.

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Interventions to Overcome Nurse Burnout

American Nurse

Nurse burnout was studied for years before COVID-19, and the pandemic brought nurse burnout to the public eye. Burnout is associated with workload and lack of support that nurses experience in critical care areas such as ICUs (Buckley et al., Nurses leaving the bedside may result in units being left short staffed.

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Behind the Screen But Not Behind the Scenes: Virtual Nurses Provide Clinical Support, Additional Expertise

Minority Nurse

Virtual nurses may work from behind computer screens, but their impact is felt throughout healthcare as their expertise is increasingly integrated into patient care and nursing workflows. Regardless of the technology, nurses play essential roles throughout telemedicine, usually conveying or using insights or information.

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Nurse leaders of color: Candid conversations

American Nurse

Unfortunately, these statistics haven’t wavered much and continue at a time when nurses are retiring and leaving the workforce for various reasons, including fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Some bedside nurses are exploring other opportunities within the profession, including leadership positions.

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Effective clinical learning for nursing students

American Nurse

Takeaways Direct care nurses serve as significant teachers and role models for nursing students in the clinical setting. Building critical thinking skills is one of the most important outcomes in the clinical setting for nursing students.

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Collaboration: The key to patient care success

American Nurse

Each of the nursing teams you’ll read about on the following pages found opportunities to collaborate, strategize, and implement successful projects and programs with their interprofessional teammates to enhance patient care and improve outcomes, engage nurses, and ensure a healthy work environment for everyone.