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Embezzlement, it’s an inside job

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Embezzlement is real and it happens in health care practices. Let’s explore embezzlement and employee theft in practices. One of the few things we want to face in our business is that employees will steal from the practice. Why would someone do that when we are all there to provide a service to the community? Who would do that to us? As it turns out, this is no small problem.

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Nurses, Reach Out Your Hands to Help End Suffering

Daily Nurse

In day-to-day 21st-century life, suffering surrounds us. Whether it’s a burned-out nurse colleague , the homeless person sleeping on the subway grate, a grieving mother standing over the body of her lifeless child, or the stranger crying in the supermarket produce aisle, there’s no shortage of moments in which we see the gravity of the lives of other human beings unfold before our eyes.

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RaDonda Vaught loses appeal over nursing license

Becker's Hospital Review

A Tennessee judge has rejected RaDonda Vaught's motion to appeal the state nursing board's 2021 decision to revoke her license, a source confirmed to Becker's Nov. 29.

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6 Ways CNOs are Improving Teamwork for 2024

Health Leaders | Nursing

The future of care hinges on a healthy nursing team that's in it for the long haul. Editor’s Note: This is part 1 of a two-part story. Part 2 will be published on Tuesday, December 5. 2024 will be restorative, if CNOs have their say. Amid geopolitical conflict, financial headwinds, and ramped nursing shortages and unrest, there's a lot of healing that needs to happen.

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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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Montana nursing school breaks ground on expansion after $101M gift

Becker's Hospital Review

Great Falls, Mont.-based Benefis Health System and Montana State University broke ground on the first of five nurse teaching buildings being constructed thanks to a $101 million donation, the Great Falls Tribune reported Nov. 29.

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Top 15 Stress-Busting Tips For Night Shift Nurses

NurseBuff

Do you always dread working night shifts? Nurses would love to have normal working hours if given the chance. But night shifts are part of our job, and we don’t have any choice but to suck it up and deal with it. If you’re a night shift nurse, don’t fret. With the right planning and […] The post Top 15 Stress-Busting Tips For Night Shift Nurses appeared first on NurseBuff.

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How multisite ambulatory settings can achieve Pathway to Excellence

Nursing Management

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Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck: A Nurse’s Story

Empowered Nurses

Mackenzie Moan was one day feeling very frustrated. She is a wife and mother of two kids and studying for her PhD. Her feelings were heightened because of financial struggles. She and her husband both work in Pennsylvania, he as a security guard and she as a Registered Nurse. Even though they both make good money, she feels like they’re living paycheck to paycheck and that should not be the way it is.

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Excellence in Nursing Preceptorship-to-Hire, part 2: An academic-practice partnership to recruit and retain nurses

Nursing Management

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Healthcare Manager vs Healthcare Administrator: What’s the Difference?

Registered Nursing

In the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, administrative roles are indispensable for the smooth functioning of medical facilities. Two leadership positions that often intersect are Healthcare Managers and Healthcare Administrators. While both contribute significantly to healthcare organizations, their roles, responsibilities, and focus areas differ.

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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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Know, Like and Trust

Empowered Nurses

Potential clients need to know, like and trust you before they’re going to work with you. The whole idea of marketing is so that potential clients can get to know you and decide whether to work with you. Many think, “Oh, I’ll just start a website and people will come to me.” I did a search for Legal Nurse Consultants and that term is only searched fifty times a day, not by attorneys but by nurses looking for education.

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Extended Nurse Work Hours and Patient Safety: Effects and Solutions

Relias

While most healthcare organizations have eight-hour shifts, many hospitals have relied on 12-hour shifts since the 1970s. Working three 12-hour shifts is highly appealing to nurses who seek additional days off to spend with family or on other interests. But the effect of long nurse work hours on patient safety is an area of concern. Despite the perks of a 12-hour workday, the impacts of 12-hour vs. eight-hour nursing shifts on patient outcomes can be significant.

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Nurse union shares ‘no confidence’ vote in Hennepin Healthcare CEO ahead of county commissioners meeting

Health Leaders | Nursing

A group of health care workers shared their vote of “no confidence” in Hennepin Healthcare’s CEO ahead of a possible Hennepin County Board of Commissioners vote Tuesday afternoon that would raise health insurance premiums for as many as 7,000 Hennepin Healthcare workers.

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Skin Cancer Risk in Immunosuppressed Patients

Consult QD

By Carol A. Langford, MD, MHS You take care of a 72-year-old male with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA). He presented with severe disease involving the lung and kidney nine years ago, requiring admission to the intensive care unit. Within the first year, he experienced one relapse after maintenance therapy was held for a serious infection. Since that time, he has remained in remission on azathioprine.

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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.

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Redding physician accused of sexual battery against nurse

Health Leaders | Nursing

A Redding doctor who was charged with sexual battery after police accused him of fondling a nurse at a Redding hospital is expected to have his case heard before a judge next month.

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Technology Integration Earns Accolades for Cleveland Clinic London

Consult QD

Oral medications are normally dispensed in multidose strips in U.K. hospitals, but not at Cleveland Clinic London. There, medications are provided to patients in single-dose units, each individually barcoded. “In addition to being the first in the U.K. to use a novel unit-dosing robot, Cleveland Clinic London is the first to use automated dispensing cabinets in each ward and perioperative area,” says Francine de Stoppelaar, PharmD, Director of Pharmacy at Cleveland Clinic London.

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A nurse’s journey: from greeter to RN

Health Leaders | Nursing

There are lots of different pathways to become a nurse, and one of Sanford Bemidji’s newest registered nurses had her own unique journey. Danielle Schultz graduated this spring from Bemidji State University’s nursing school and started full-time at Sanford this summer.

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Organizational socialization: Optimizing experienced nurses' onboarding

Nursing Management

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Leveling the Playing Field: How HR Can Equitably Improve Health Outcomes Through Fertility Benefits

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.

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Ascension Seton nurses will strike again next week

Health Leaders | Nursing

Ascension Seton said Tuesday that National Nurses United (NNU) issued the hospital a notice of intent to strike for one day starting at 6:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 6.

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Trial Shows Promise for Topical Treatment for VIN

Consult QD

Surgery is a common treatment for vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) 2/3, the precursor to human papillomavirus (HPV) squamous cancers. However, there can be adverse side effects, including discomfort and scarring, and variable risks of recurrence. “If you get clear margins during surgery, the recurrence risk is about 8% for the first couple years,” says Chad Michener, MD , Vice Chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Obstetrics & Gynecology Institute and holder of the Neil and Barbara Lazar Endowed