Elder Care Matters

AUGUST 12, 2024

Discover essential tips for navigating Medicare to maximize your benefits. Learn how to integrate Medicare into your estate planning and long-term financial strategies to ensure effective elder care. Explore key insights on enrollment, plan selection, cost management, and preventive services. The post Maximize Your Medicare Benefits: Essential Tips for Effective Elder Care and Estate Planning appeared first on Elder Care Directory - ElderCareMatters.com.

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Penn Medicine News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Cancer patients faced countless barriers getting pre-treatment dental care. Now navigators and Penn Dental Medicine have created a smoother path.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nurse leaders must determine what staffing model works best for both patients and nurses, says this CNO. The nursing shortage continues to be one of the biggest concerns for CNOs across the country, and many are brainstorming creative staffing models to recruit and retain more nurses. When implementing new staffing models, there are several factors to consider.

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Nurses Advocates

AUGUST 12, 2024

Healing Healthcare is a deep dive into the intricate challenges nurses and other members of the healthcare team face and evidence-based solutions for change. The book is filled with the voices of nurse leaders. The pages contain solutions, action steps, and strategies to fix the broken healthcare system. Healing Healthcare is a book for nurses in every setting who see the broken healthcare system daily as they do their jobs and wonder why they feel defeated.

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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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Amercan Journal of Nursing

AUGUST 12, 2024

A commitment to ‘always be at the table.’ Many years after reading Sheryl Sandburg’s 2013 book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and watching her Ted Talk, “ Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders ,” the phrase “sit at the table” sticks with me. At the time I read the book I was working for a hospital system, overseeing a large research team.

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Nursology

AUGUST 12, 2024

In nursing, we have a strong and steady commitment, in theory and in practice, to the idea of “the whole” This idea is expressed in the term that is sometimes spelled with the letter “w” (wholism), and sometimes starting with the letter “h” (holism). The difference between the spellings is subtle, but noticing this difference, … Continue reading What Does Intersectionality Have to Do with Nursing?

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Nursing Review

AUGUST 12, 2024

Gary Sacks , Deakin University There are renewed calls for the Australian government to implement a range of measures aimed at improving our diets. These include restrictions on junk food advertising, improvements to food labelling, and a levy on sugary drinks. This time the recommendations come from a parliamentary inquiry into diabetes in Australia.

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Relias

AUGUST 12, 2024

Trauma is an emotional response to living through a stressful event. A traumatic event can affect a person’s sense of safety, self, and ability to regulate emotions. They may have a hard time handling everyday things. They may not connect their trauma to current health problems. For healthcare professionals, it is important to consider both physical and mental well-being.

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Nursing Review

AUGUST 12, 2024

John L. Hopkins , Swinburne University of Technology This month, changes to the Australian Fair Work Act will give workers the formal right to disconnect from all work communication outside their usual work hours. The main driver for introducing “right to disconnect” laws has been to protect the health and wellbeing of workers in an increasingly hyper-connected world.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 12, 2024

Experts predict a shortfall of 12,500 registered nurses in North Carolina by 2033.

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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

Nursing Review

AUGUST 12, 2024

Healthcare-associated infections are the most common hospital-acquired complication in Australia, leading to readmissions, poorer patient outcomes and increased emotional and financial burden. Surgical site infections (SSI) affect tens of thousands of Australians each year and it is estimated that each readmission caused by a hospital-acquired infection incurs around $40,000 in extra costs.

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The Gypsy Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Jackson Nurse Professionals provided this article. As a travel nurse, the period between contracts offers a wonderful chance to rejuvenate, contemplate, and possibly enhance your earnings. This time is an exciting adventure, providing a perfect blend of relaxation and professional engagement. In this blog, we’ll delve into diverse strategies to make the most of the time between travel nurse contracts, aiding you in steering clear of nurse burnout and fostering a rewarding career.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you’re a nursing school student, you might be thinking about what to specialize in if you don’t want to become a general registered nurse. Or, if you’re a nurse in the workplace, you might think it’s time for a career change. Whatever your current situation, nursing is a broad field with many different specialties to fit your lifestyle.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2024

When I rewatch episodes of Nurse Jackie as a now practicing emergency room RN, I laugh. A lot. ER doctors performing open abdominal surgeries in Manolo Blahniks? No. I mean, I’ve never practiced in NYC, so maybe the culture is different there, but I have worked in many other ERs across the country, and I’ve never once seen any clinician wearing pumps, much less Manolos.

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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.

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