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The Case for Soft Skills in Nursing Education

American Nurse

Soft skills encompass a wide range of qualities such as communication, empathy, teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, and cultural humility. Clinical proficiency is essential for providing safe and prudent care, but soft skills are equally as vital. The value of soft skills extends far beyond new nurses and direct patient care.

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Clinical Mentorship of Nursing Students: The Staff Nurse’s Role in Creating a Positive Learning Experience

American Nurse

Clinical learning experiences, during which prelicensure nursing students help care for actual patients, allow students to apply information learned in the classroom. Staff nurses play a pivotal role during clinical learning, serving as formal and informal guides, mentors, and preceptors.

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Mentorship: A strategy for nursing retention

American Nurse

Define the differences between mentorship and preceptor programs, and the benefits of implementing a mentorship program. The limited pool of qualified nursing staff readily available to provide safe, quality care taxes the human capital management of healthcare organizations worldwide. See Turnover stats.) increase the previous year.

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Transition to Practice: Are Students Ready to Join a Disengaged Workforce?

American Nurse

The study analysis determined worsening nurse population health outcomes equating to a mental health crisis that is actively contributing to costly job turnover rates and increased risks to patient care and safety. 26% of respondents stated nursing preceptors put the needs of their patients before their own. Healthy work environments.

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Pearls of Wisdom from ANA-Michigan Podcast, Voices for Nurses

American Nurse

Both ladies shared what are some essential leadership qualities that every leader should consider: communication, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, reflection, creativity, integrity, delegation, and action orientation. This episode also touched on the topic of exploring issues related to the importance of self-care.

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Preventing nurse suicide: Nursing school and beyond

American Nurse

Curriculum can include reviews of mental health struggles and disorders, symptoms, and unique risks for nurses, as well as strategies for self-protection and self-knowledge when intervention and resources are lacking. After the crisis, focus on your own self-care needs.

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

Relias

Organizations with a nurse residency program provide new nurses with additional support while also engaging experienced nurses as preceptors — fostering new connections and a healthy, collaborative culture. In addition to improving nurse retention, nurse residency programs instill a sense of community and confidence in new nurses.