Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 16, 2023
New nurses can feel lost and discouraged navigating their first job out of graduate school. Real-world experience and classes can help, but nothing prepares nurses for nursing in the field, where they’ll experience mistakes and feelings of doubt and insecurity. Luckily, these feelings don’t last forever. Doubt and perfectionism can creep up on all of us, even experienced nurses.
Becker's Hospital Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health has reduced nurse turnover by 20% with its UNC Health for Me program.
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Consult QD
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of liver disease in children, and NAFLD-related cirrhosis is the leading cause of liver transplants in young adults. Nearly 10% of children between ages 2 and 19 have NAFLD, with up to 38% of children with obesity in the United States affected. 1 According to three Cleveland Clinic Children’s experts who spoke at a recent continuing medical education event, the challenges for clinicians include delayed diagnoses because of inconsisten
Amercan Journal of Nursing
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Nurses, what’s next? As a labor and delivery nurse, I am part of one of life’s biggest moments for families I may never meet again. This calling requires a positive attitude and an ability to instill hope throughout each 12-hour shift. But at a certain point, I found myself feeling exhausted and disconnected from this work, and all my effort to maintain a cheerful demeanor and engagement only exacerbated the burnout.
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.
NurseBuff
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Life is the most unpredictable journey that a person can ever take. More than one person has found themselves walking a particular path only to find themselves waylaid by circumstance and thrust in another direction. One minute you are studying an online MBA degree and the next you are off studying nursing or some other […] The post How Can Business Skills Help A Career In Healthcare?
Consult QD
OCTOBER 16, 2023
An epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) may act synergistically when used concurrently with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) to potentially improve outcomes in patients with brain metastases from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with an EGFR mutation. According to a study published in Cancers , a retrospective review of 239 patients with EGFR mutations and NSCLC brain metastases showed that median overall survival was greatest among those patients treated with
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Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Infection prevention is one of the standards of nursing practice. Keeping infections from starting or from being passed along through contact is essential to keeping nurses and patients healthy. International Infection Prevention Week (this year marked on October 15-21) is an annual event to highlight the best practices to prevent infection and to bring awareness to the issue of infection prevention.
NurseBuff
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Do you live in Texas and consider nursing a viable career path? It’s a noble calling, a high-regarded profession and can be a stable and rewarding career. Nurses can fulfil various roles in the community, from Emergency Room nurses to general ward roles, specialist nursing roles and even psychiatric nurses. You don’t always have to […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Nursing Requirements and Regulations in Texas appeared first on NurseBuff.
The Gypsy Nurse
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Maybe you have been in the travel nursing game for ten years or maybe only a year. Regardless, there is bound to be a time when you ask yourself, “Am I ready to quit travel nursing?”. There could be a lot of factors that play into this. Maybe you met someone. Maybe you have kids. Maybe your family back home is going through a tough time. Or, maybe you have managed to find the spot where you just can’t picture yourself leaving.
Health News Florida | Nurses
OCTOBER 16, 2023
School nurses often are a young patient’s only health provider. They also function as a point person for critical public health interventions. Yet many states don’t require them, and districts struggle to hire them.
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 16, 2023
A former Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) healthcare worker has come forward to dispute the WA government’s claims regarding the alleged PCH rape. At the beginning of this month, the ABC published an essay written by Florence (not her real name), in which she described a fellow male patient towering over her bed before allegedly raping her in January of last year.
CynaMed
OCTOBER 16, 2023
2 minute read Nurses are often the unsung heroes of the healthcare industry. Doctors may get a lot of the credit, but nurses are the backbone of patients receiving proper care. They ensure they take their meds, follow the physician’s orders, and much more. Of course, the actual job of caring for patients is the most important part of nursing , but nurses also need to deal with the administrative side of their careers.
Celayix
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Company Overview: Cerberus Security Group Cerberus Security Group is a security services provider based in Austin, Texas. With a commitment to delivering high-quality security solutions, Cerberus Security Group has been in the business for several years, serving diverse clients. Their services encompass festival and event-trained guard staff, Investigation services, emergency services management, and more.
Nursing Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
La Trobe University's Rural Health School has opened new enrolments to retain and strengthen the rural nursing workforce. Once completed, the short online course results in a certificate, allowing nurses to brush up on skills in a rural setting. The certificate includes micro-credentials covering digital health and assessments for rural paediatric, adult, and older patients.
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.
Consult QD
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Arguably, no one advances their specialty more than physician-scientists. As a bridge between practitioners and researchers, physician-scientists help translate research into practical care. However, the number of physician-scientists has steadily declined since the trend was first noted in the late 1970s. 1 As of 2014, physician-scientists were estimated to account for just 1.5% of the nation’s total physician workforce. 2 Simultaneously, the age of physician-scientists has trended upwards, as
Nursing Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sydney healthcare workers could be allocated 15 per cent of a new housing development in Crows Nest to combat the lack of affordable housing that is close to hospitals or medical centres. The Hume Place project, by developers Phoenix Property Investors (PPI), Third.i and community housing provider Evolve Housing, is proposing to deliver 500 dwellings in the metropolitan area to allow nurses and healthcare workers to live closer to where they work.
Health Leaders | Nursing
OCTOBER 16, 2023
New nurses can feel lost and discouraged navigating their first job out of graduate school. Real-world experience and classes can help, but nothing prepares nurses for nursing in the field, where they'll experience mistakes and feelings of doubt and insecurity.
Nursing Review
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Patricia Davidson , University of Wollongong ; Caleb Ferguson , University of Wollongong , and Jason Farley , Johns Hopkins University Demand for health care is soaring as the population ages, medical treatments become more widely available and more people live with chronic and complex illnesses. However, there is global shortage of health professionals – and the pandemic has only accentuated the trend.
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.
Penn Medicine News
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Penn physician and scientist Ben Stanger details the process and inspiration of writing his recently published book From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine.
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