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Licensed Practical Nurses: Advancing, Succeeding & Achieving

American Nurse

Over 171,000 LPNs work in long-term care facilities, which is ranked as the number one field of nursing that LPNs are offered employment. Additional areas of nursing that LPNs work in are home health, retirement/assisted living facilities, psychiatric/mental health, substance abuse, and outpatient/ambulatory clinics.

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Become a Healthcare Leader With a Master’s Degree in Nursing Administration

Northeastern State University

Nursing administration is a broad term that refers to several different leadership roles, typically within a hospital, physician’s office or long-term care facility. Business and HR Planning Nurse administrators are heavily involved in business and HR planning at their facilities.

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Webinar Recap: Elevating Senior Living Quality Through Trusted Partnerships

IntelyCare

As a result of staffing shortages, lack of support for new nursing grads, and inefficient vendor partnerships, care quality in senior living facilities has been suffering. This is a complicated problem facing all areas of healthcare, but it is hitting long-term care especially hard.

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What Nursing Career Gives You the Most Bang for Your Buck?

Post University

LPNs work directly with patients, taking vital signs and histories and providing general nursing care. They tend to have supervisory roles in long-term care facilities, for example. Finally, nursing is a rewarding career choice. Sometimes, they may supervise a team of certified nurse aides or medical assistants.

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7 Strategies for Mitigating the Healthcare Staffing Crisis

Relias

Enhanced benefits, such as better retirement plans and childcare discounts. Compare the risk of carrying a high number of vacancies, which could threaten your quality of care, to the financial impact of offering additional employee compensation or benefits. “One 5 – Consider arrangements with other care facilities and organizations.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

I started as a staff RN in 1984 in the Neurology unit of Montefiore and then moved to the Rehabilitation units for long-term care. I was then promoted to become a Patient Care Coordinator and then a Nurse Manager in the Department of Medicine. Tell us about your career path and how you ascended to that role.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

Then, post-pandemic, we’re seeing the effects that many more people either retired or decided to leave the bedside and go into other roles. We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years.