Wed.Jan 22, 2025

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Taking a Break From Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

While travel nursing can provide adventure and reward, it can also be taxing. You may find taking a break seems like a good idea. Though the day-to-day in each assignment may be similar to a traditional nursing job, hopping from one assignment to the next is anything but normal. Over time, you may become exhausted from all the packing , moving, and readjusting that each contract might bring, especially if you leave little downtime between each new job.

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Tampa General zones in on nurse efficiency

Becker's Hospital Review

As hospitals evolve over time, their physical layouts often tell the story of their history. Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital, which opened in 1927 on Davis Islands, is no exception.

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Meet Carlee Minyard: The ER Nurse Who Set a Stroke Care Record and Transformed a Life in Just 17 Minutes

Daily Nurse

When every second counts, ER nurse Carlee Minyard steps up to the challenge. Her remarkable achievement of a 17-minute door-to-treatment time for stroke care at Saint Mary’s Regional Health System in Russellville, Arkansas, not only set a new record for the hospital but also showcased her exceptional skill, quick thinking, and unwavering commitment to saving lives.

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An Example of Resilience: North Carolina Nurse Earns BSN to Better Her Life and Open New Doors of Opportunity

Post University

Felicia Dellinger is a natural caregiver. The Cape Cod, Massachusetts, native grew up quickly, coming from a broken home where she often looked after her three younger siblings. She started college in Boston after graduating high school but didnt dedicate herself to school that year and ended up returning home. I still had this goal of helping people, says Felicia.

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.

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Peds Collab Preview | The power of integrating child life and creative arts in healthcare

NRC Health

Join us in Los Angeles, March 1920, for the 2025 Pediatric Collaborative with Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Engage with your peers in pediatrics, embrace best practices, and collaborate on strategies to prioritize human-centered care. This years lineup includes many great presentations, including a session that will focus on the benefits of blending child life and creative arts with the clinical environment to build a comprehensive, patient-centered care model.

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Preparing for End of Life

Nurses Advocates

If you have followed me, you know my story.I am a Brain Cancer Survivor! I was diagnosed with Central Nervous Lymphoma in November 2014. The diagnosis plunged me into an incredible journey, which I am grateful to have survived. What I learned is that when you are faced with a complex or catastrophic illness or injury, you are forced to face your mortality, and that is an eye-opening experience as most of us take our life for granted.

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Faculty Highlight Series: Janet Polach

The Leadership Development Group

Building a High-Performing Team in a Global Pharmaceutical Company Leadership transitions, particularly in highly specialized industries like pharmaceuticals, can present unique challenges. When our client, a global pharmaceutical company, hired a new R&D global regulatory affairs head, they reached out to TLD Group for assimilation and team development support.

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Infographic: Nurse Practitioner B Readers?

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse practitioners may soon be able to classify chest radiographs, according to the CDC. Nurse practitioners' (NPs) scope of practice will potentially be expanded once again as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers allowing NPs to try their hand at reading a specific type of X-ray. The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) submitted a request for information regarding the B Reader Program from interested parties to determine whether or not

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How Ascension boosted interest in nurse preceptorship

Becker's Hospital Review

"Discover how Ascension addressed the critical need for revamped nurse preceptor training, leading to increased interest and confidence in the role.

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National Nurse Anesthetist Week being observed January 19-25

Health Leaders | Nursing

January 19-25 is National Nurse Anesthetists Week. Whenever anesthesia is delivered by a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), the patient is in the care of a health care professional who is in charge of providing a thorough and safe anesthetic from pre-operation through post-operation. For more than a century, CRNAs have been staying with patients throughout their procedures, monitoring their vital signs and adjusting their anesthetics to ensure the safest, most comfortable anesthesia

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Why Menopause Should Matter to Today’s Employers

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

An estimated 1.1 billion women worldwide will have experienced menopause by 2025. Symptoms like hot flashes, fatigue, and anxiety can be incredibly disruptive — and last for years. But despite its massive impact, little is being done to support those going through menopause in the workplace. In a recent survey, 70% of respondents said they have considered changing their employment to better manage symptoms — perhaps because only 8% received significant support from their employer related to meno

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Ballad nurse leaders lean into 'getting rid of stupid stuff'

Becker's Hospital Review

At Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health, creating a better nursing work environment is top of mind. To that end, creating a more efficient workspace is a high priority. That's why nurse executives and IT leaders came together to create its "Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff" initiative.

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Workplace Privacy: An Employer’s Obligation to Their Employees

Celayix

Employers and Technology Since the 1990s, there is an evident change and explosive increase in the use of technology in the workplace. The evolution of workplace computing in the decades to follow created an unprecedented economic expansion that changed business forever. That technology brings obligations for employers to protect their employees workplace privacy.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Dismantled, Not Defeated – The Legacy of America’s First White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention

The Relentless School Nurse

The dismantling of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention marks a seismic shift in America’s approach to addressing gun violence, threatening to unravel years of hard-won progress and leaving a gaping void in federal leadership on this critical issue. This unwelcome, but expected closure, ended the office’s brief but impactful tenure as a central hub for coordinating gun violence prevention efforts across the federal government.

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HR Compliance in Security Workforce Management

Celayix

Managing a security workforce effectively requires more than just ensuring coverage. Effective management demands a strategic focus on HR compliance and cost control to keep your operations running smoothly. Security business managers in the US and Canada face unique challenges in navigating this complex landscape. There are laws and regulations that differ state to state, country to country.

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Maximizing Your Benefits Strategy: Reframing the Way We View Fertility

Speaker: Lizzie Wright - Director of Customer Success at Carrot Fertility

Employee expectations around benefits and workplace support have evolved in step with the growing need for fertility and family-forming care. As HR professionals, it is our job to ensure employees have a comprehensive understanding of the benefits our organizations offer and how they can utilize them. Before educating employees, we first need to understand the rising healthcare costs and the financial burden of fertility care.