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How to Transition from Bedside Nursing to Leadership Roles

Diversity Nursing

How can I make a broader impact on patient care? Start by cultivating skills such as: Effective Communication : Learn to communicate with diverse teams and adapt your style to different audiences. Acting as a preceptor or mentor for new Nurses. What are my long-term career aspirations?

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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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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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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.

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Clinical Education – whose job is it anyway?

The Nurse Break

And perhaps that comes down to the impact it has on the capacity to provide high quality, safe, evidence-based care. The Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia’s (NMBA) Nursing Standards for both registered and enrolled nurses identifies the expectations for ongoing professional development of self and others (NMBA, 2016).

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Nurse Mentorships and How They Can Benefit You

Nurse.com

“Experience, enthusiasm, and a willing spirit are essential qualities of successful mentors,” said Trish Richardson, MSN, BSBA, RN, NE-BC, CMSRN, Director of Post-Acute Care Solutions at Relias and President-Elect of the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA). As a mentor, you impact the nursing profession as well as patient care.