New Thing Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

By: Sarah K. Wells MSN RN CEN CNL Setting intentions in our careers helps us set goals, focus our behaviors, and begin to create a path forward to achieve them. How do I set 2024 career intentions? What is #mywhy ? – Spend some time considering what fuels your nursing fire. Your “why” may be the goal of your intentions. It’s the journey instead of the destination. – Focus on the steps to get to the goal and write down those action items.

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The Nursing Site

JANUARY 2, 2024

Sheec Socks Before we jump into 2024, I have a couple of Post 2023 product reviews for nurses to wrap up. Socks and shoes are very important to nurses and can easily make or break their day! In November, I was generously gifted some fabulous socks from Sheec Socks and after trying most of them, (which took me awhile) I definitely have a favorite! ( ComFits compression socks) I purchased a few more of these and bought some for my son who is also an RN.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

In an evolving healthcare landscape, many hospitals and health systems have a diverse nursing staff of tenured employees, contractors, specialists, and more. While this can be a recipe for a dynamic and collaborative environment, it also has the potential to become precarious without proper management. Disorganization and lack of communication ultimately trickle down to patients.

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Nursology

JANUARY 2, 2024

We are very pleased to notify all Nursology.net visitors that the entire three volumes of “The Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence” are now available on our website. The videos are available for viewing by those who access nursology.net, Downloading is not allowed due to our licensing agreement with the Fuld Institute for Technology in Nursing … Continue reading Announcing The Nurse Theorists “Portraits of Excellence” FITNE Videos on Nursology.net!

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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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Becker's Hospital Review

JANUARY 2, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of students who passed the national licensure exam for nurses fell from 88.2% to 79.9%, but the trend is reversing after the release of the latest nursing exam, Medpage Today reported Jan. 1.

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Consult QD

JANUARY 2, 2024

Cancer therapies treat the entire prostate. But for a subset of patients, minimally invasive focal therapies that leave part of the prostate untreated may be an option. “[The key is] finding men who are intermediate risk, who based on imaging and based on biopsies have cancer localized to one small part of their prostate,” says Zeyad Schwen, MD , a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic.

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

Mentoring and supporting nurses in different stages of their careers are more important than ever since the pandemic. This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only. Visit the site and log in/register to read. The post Mentorship matters appeared first on American Nurse.

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Consult QD

JANUARY 2, 2024

Written by Sudhir Krishnan, MD ; Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD ; and Hassan Khouli, MD , The COVID-19 pandemic was a watershed moment in critical care history, and the experience left an indelible mark on those of us who served in the ICUs. The management of refractory acute lung failure combined with protracted ventilator therapy was a hallmark of this malady.

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

I’m a new nurse employed in a hospital and would like to better understand a nurse’s responsibility around calling out sick. On the inpatient unit where I’ve worked for over a year, I frequently hear nurses planning to call out in advance if they’re having a difficult shift. This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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The Gypsy Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

Travel nursing can open your world up to a variety of new experiences. But, if there’s one potential drawback, it’s that it can be quite lonely. You might have to leave your family and friends for weeks or months at a time, and missing that sense of community can be detrimental to your mental well-being. One of the best ways to combat isolation, reduce housing costs, and foster a sense of community as a travel nurse is to consider co-housing.

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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

American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

A new tool enhances engagement and improves compliance. Takeaways: Peer review, an expectation of nursing professionals, aligns with Magnet® standards related to the promotion of patient safety and the advancement of nursing knowledge. When a Florida hospital experienced an increase in central line–associated blood stream infection (CLABSI), it implemented a quality improvement project related to its peer review process.

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Penn Medicine News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Each week, Intensive Care Nursery clinical practice leader Whitney Zachritz offers books and snacks to parents of the littlest patients at HUP. She wants to provide joy, but the mission is a serious one.

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

Astute triage leads to an evidence-based treatment plan Takeaways: Traumatic hyphema, primarily caused by recreational injuries, require emergent evaluation to prevent vision loss. Patients frequently present with vision loss, eye pain, photophobia, nausea, or vomiting. Brian Wright*, a 34-year-old man with a history of essential hypertension, is struck in the right temple with a bat during a softball game.

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Celayix

JANUARY 2, 2024

How to encourage mindfulness in the workplace Sometimes things run smoothly at work. Nothing can get us off balance. We feel good and are in the flow. But there are also phases when nothing seems to work. In these moments, mindfulness at work can help you to become aware of your thoughts and feelings and to be able to concentrate better on your everyday work.

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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.

Education

American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

In-the-moment self-care brings calming and energizing effects. Takeaways: Acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine balance energy (Qi) flow with calming and energizing effects. Self-acupressure offers a convenient, discrete, no-cost, evidence-based method to manage stress and fatigue. Self-acupressure can be added to the nurse’s self-care toolbox. The fatigue and stress experienced by nurses require self-care, but lack of time or space may prove challenging in a clinical setting.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

JANUARY 2, 2024

Physical therapists have one of the most rewarding jobs in the world. And that statement is true from several perspectives—including a financial one. The median salary for a practitioner with a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree is $97.720. 1 But, this figure only tells half of the story. Salaries fluctuate due to multiple variables, such as which physical therapy advancement opportunities you pursue, but location is one of the most important factors.

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

Tracking nursing trends and salaries provides valuable insights. Lillee Gelinas Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s American Nurse Journal Nursing Trends and Salary Survey. Responses from nurse managers and clinical nurses help us all better understand important issues, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing and how it appears to have affected many of the major concerns the survey tracks.

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 2, 2024

The CURES Act Final Rule from the ONC promotes smooth safe access, exchange, and use of electronic health information. The rule is intended to give patients and medical professionals protected access to health information. It also aims to boost innovation and competition by building an ecosystem of innovative applications to provide patients with more healthcare options.

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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.

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

Actions that support nurses and the nursing profession When I became the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) 38th president in January 2023, the pandemic had loosened its tight grip and our society had largely moved on from this destructive public health event. Although thrilled to be out of the red-hot phase of COVID-19, we nurses found ourselves still very much recovering and rebuilding—seeking healthy work environments with appropriate staffing, free from workplace violence, while also being

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Consult QD

JANUARY 2, 2024

Approximately one-third of people with epilepsy have seizures refractory to medications. For those patients, surgery offers the best chance for decreased seizure burden and perhaps seizure freedom. However, no more than 1% to 2% of North American patients who would benefit from surgery are referred to a surgeon’s office. Demitre Serletis, MD, PhD , an associate professor and neurosurgeon in Cleveland Clinic’s Epilepsy Center, is working to create a data-driven process — merging concepts from n

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American Nurse

JANUARY 2, 2024

Takeaways: The cost of preventing hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI) is significantly lower than the cost of treatment. Nurses’ knowledge of pressure injury risk and preventive strategies varies and HAPI incidence worldwide remains stagnant. A hospital in New York addressed its high HAPI rate by evaluating nurse knowledge and implementing an educational plan.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2024

A nursing student is now reunited with a nurse who she met on a flight where the two helped save a man’s life as they both now work at HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital.

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Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2024

As 2023 draws to a close we would like to take this opportunity to recap the top blogs published on HospitalRecruiting in 2023. We have been publishing blogs about hiring, job search tips, and career advice for physicians, advanced practitioners, healthcare recruiters, and everyone who works in healthcare for over 11 years. Here are our top 10 blogs from 2023: 1. 9 Tips to Build Your Clinical Leadership Skills Author: Benjamin Williams, RN Clinical leadership roles are a great way to advance you

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Hospital and departmental leadership must ensure everyone works together to care for patients effectively and efficiently.

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