American Nurse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Is it time for your next chapter? If you’re like me, you’re looking for good news that includes fulfillment and flexibility in our later years. Enter preferment, a proactive approach to career transition that emphasizes doing what we want, with whom we want, and when we want. Preferment offers a fulfilling and personalized alternative to conventional retirement, catering to our unique needs by shifting the focus from winding down to pursuing passions and meaningful activities.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 5, 2024

A Wall Street Journal investigation of insurer home visits found the companies pushed nurses to run screening tests and add unusual diagnoses, turning the roughly hourlong stops in patients’ homes into an extra $1,818 per visit, on average, from 2019 to 2021. Pillar: CNO Link: Full story Article Source: MSN.

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Becker's Hospital Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor's note: This letter to the editor is in response to the article, " The Miseducation of America's Nurse Practitioners, " published by Bloomberg. It has been lightly edited.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 5, 2024

For generations, learning to be a nurse meant studying textbooks, practicing on mannequins and then facing real people. Now, modern nursing schools have added a new step: virtual reality.

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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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Nursing Times

AUGUST 5, 2024

The NMC has relaunched its recruitment campaign for an interim chief executive, after the previous candidate, Dawn Brodrick, stepped down.

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Becker's Hospital Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

"Discover the latest healthcare industry layoffs as 41 hospitals and health systems cut jobs this year, including nurses, due to financial and operational chall

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Penn Medicine News

AUGUST 5, 2024

A neuroscientist by training, Dr. Roy Hamilton studies how brains learn and understand. He takes these lessons to heart on a broader scale as Penn Medicine’s new vice dean of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

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Nursing Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

Deanna Stuart-Butler , The University of Queensland ; Aleena Wojcieszek , The University of Queensland ; Sarah Graham , The University of Queensland ; Valerie Ah Chee , The University of Queensland , and Vicki Flenady , The University of Queensland Australian national data show First Nations women face almost twice the risk of stillbirth or “ sorry business babies ” compared to non-First Nations women.

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The Gypsy Nurse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Lark Medical Staffing provided this article. In the hustle and bustle of the healthcare industry, National Work Like a Dog Day is a reminder of the dedication and hard work that professionals put into their roles. This day encourages everyone to face challenges head-on, embodying the relentless spirit often seen in our beloved canine companions. For healthcare travelers, this spirit is especially crucial, given the unique and demanding nature of their work.

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Nursing Review

AUGUST 5, 2024

In the past year, at least six pain-relief products have become unavailable in Australia. The Australian & New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) says the withdrawals have resulted in prescriptions for less-effective medicines and increased confusion over dosage and side-effects. Shortages began when British pharmaceutical company Mundipharma announced they would no longer supply oral liquid morphine to the Australian market.

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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

Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 5, 2024

To ensure big data is used to influence outcomes that are meaningful to the nursing profession, nurse executives need to act as data visionaries and architects. But how? Have you ever found yourself poring over stacks of data, feeling more like a statistician than a nurse? If you have, welcome to the world of big data. "You have all of these different data sources coming at you on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Jackie’s back. Love or hate her, Nurse Jackie is being rebooted on Amazon Prime this year, with star Edie Falco to return. Join me, a practicing ER nurse, for a look back on the original series and its approach to its main character, the real-life job of being a nurse, and our healthcare system. Nurses have long struggled to own their leading character energy in media and pop culture.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 5, 2024

It’s not always easy to ask for help – especially when the help needed involves support for your mental health. Through a program called “Code Lilac,” Memorial Hermann Health System aims to provide easy access to mental health support for nurses and other staff and perhaps relieve any stigma associated with seeking it. According to a press release, the program began at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in 2015 after staff attended a workshop on vicarious trauma.

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Nursing Times

AUGUST 5, 2024

The NMC has relaunched its recruitment campaign for an interim chief executive, after the previous candidate, Dawn Brodrick, stepped down.

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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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Health Leaders | Nursing

AUGUST 5, 2024

Repetitive needlesticks might no longer be necessary with new technology, say these nurse leaders. Several new care delivery models are taking over the nursing industry and streamlining daily nursing practices, now including needlestick procedures. Repetitive needlesticks can be a challenge in hospitals, from both a nurse and patient perspective. A recent survey conducted by the Harris Poll revealed that out of the participants with a recent hospital stay, 59% of patients needed multiple needles

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