Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Being one of 240,000 are great odds if you’re playing the billion-dollar Powerball, but not when those odds are for being diagnosed with breast cancer. According to the CDC, close to 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men each year, and Courtney Shihabuddin DNP, APRN-CNP, was one of those women in 2020. Shihabuddin was diagnosed with breast cancer on February 13, 2020.

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Consult QD

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Cleveland Clinic Akron General began piloting a new model of care in October 2022 on its labor and delivery unit. TeamBirth, a key component of the broader Maternal HealthCARE initiative sponsored by the March of Dimes and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, places patients giving birth at the center of shared communication and decision-making with their caregivers.

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Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2023

My name is Diego San Antonio, and I am an MSN Entry into Nursing student in my third semester. I moved to the United States from the Philippines when I was a child, and I’ve been in Maryland ever since. I attended Towson University and earned my bachelor’s in Health Education and promotion with a… The post Why Should I Pursue Nursing at Hopkins?

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American Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This novel approach bridges the gap between athletics and academics. Takeaways: Nursing students who participate in collegiate athletics are a niche group with unique advising needs related to clinical learning. A dedicated academic advisor for nursing student athletes can provide invaluable support to nursing students and faculty. In 2021, over 500,000 U.S. college students participated in teams sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); however, little research exists o

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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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Consult QD

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A patient arrives at your clinic with red scaling on the nipple or what looks like bleeding of the nipple. What do you do? While it’s more common for these symptoms to be a sign of eczema or psoriasis of the nipple and areola, in rare instances, this could be a form of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) that affects the cells of the milk ducts. Paget’s disease involves skin of the nipple, and is considered early-stage disease.

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Diane Sieg

OCTOBER 30, 2023

My husband and I took our granddaughters, ages 11 and 13 to The Taylor Swift Eras Tour movie a couple of weeks ago. While I wasn’t an official Swiftie, I was more excited to see her 3½ hour concert in a theatre than our granddaughters! I am a relatively new fan to Taylor, but have been enamored with her amazing talent, business integrity and popularity, and wanted to experience her myself.

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The Gypsy Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

AB Staffing Solutions provided this article. We asked our Housing Department about avoiding housing scams in travel healthcare, and the one commonality is to trust your own instincts. If it doesn’t seem right, like a landlord is asking to be paid via Venmo or Zelle or asking for money before a lease is signed, then don’t sign anything. Call your housing specialist for guidance; this is a sign of a scam.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Financial planning takes time and effort, but the end results of a good financial plan can be life changing. Planning for your financial future–both immediate and long-term–might not be as fun as planning or other things in your life, but the investment in your time will reap real dividends in both money and stress reduction. Pablo Oliva, a wealth advisor with Northsight Wealth Management, LLC , says that financial planning isn’t something that only wealthy people need. “

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CynaMed

OCTOBER 30, 2023

2 minute read Caring for patients in a healthcare setting is not an easy job. There are many moving parts and duties, even in primary care. Many of these duties fall on nurses. However, they often need help as well. This is where certified nursing assistants (CNAs) come in. These are healthcare professionals who help support patients and nurses to help provide the best care possible.

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American Nurse

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Incorporate coping strategies into the curriculum. Takeaways: Nursing students report stress related to academic and clinical settings. Nurse educators can role-model self-care behaviors to promote students’ personal health and wellness. Nursing students need to make time for their own self-care, and they need to know that it’s okay to make time for their personal health and wellness.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Existing Canberra walk-in health clinics will be able to treat a wider range of conditions through merging with new Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (Medicare UCCs). The scheme will be joint funded by the ACT government and will attract an extra $7.1m in federal government funding over three years to the sites from early 2024. “We know that Canberrans have embraced the nurse-led Walk-in Centres across the ACT, and that’s helping take pressure off our two emergency departments," said senator for the

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Nurses Advocates

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a workshop by Hanger Clinic on Upper Extremity Limb Loss. The workshop discussed the advances in prosthetics that are helping people with upper-body limb loss get back to work and their lives. I was asked to participate in the event to represent the role case managers play when a patient has an amputation.

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Nursing Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A court has ruled that the cruise ship company at the centre of a major Covid outbreak should have cancelled the Ruby Princess trip that led to 28 deaths. The Ruby Princess outbreak resulted in almost 700 passengers becoming infected with the virus. A judgment handed down in the Federal Court on Wednesday found Carnival Australia negligent in allowing the ship to set sail on March 8, 2020.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When you receive a diagnosis of heart failure or cancer, your world stops on a dime. The myriad appointments, labs and tests can be overwhelming. But at LMH Health, there are people whose job is specifically to help guide you through those challenging times — nurse navigators.

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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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Nursing Review

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The ACT Coroner's Court inquest has found a lack of communication and preventable mistakes among Canberra Hospital's staff led to a delay in her diagnosis and, ultimately, Rozalia's death. The five-year-old is believed to have died of myocarditis brought on by influenza A in July last year – a day after her fifth birthday. She was taken to the hospital's emergency department on the advice of a GP who had been treating her.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Unionized Allegheny General Hospital nurses are scheduled to vote Nov. 2 on whether to continue negotiations for a new labor agreement or issue a 10-day notice of a walkout.

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Amercan Journal of Nursing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The transformative potential of the microbiome. I’ve always considered the saying “trust your gut” to be a directive to respond to one’s innate instincts. However, as a gastroenterology clinical nurse specialist, I now recognize there can be a literal meaning to that phrase with the recent discovery of the microbiome and its implications for our health.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Before a sea of people in a packed auditorium, a group of New Jersey nurses gave a sobering warning. Pillar: Nursing Link: Full story Article Source: NJ.

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

As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.

Health Outcomes

Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The state is investigating claims that Seattle nurses are being attacked by the people they work to help.

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