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Nurse Essentials: What’s REALLY in a Nurse’s Bag?

Diversity Nursing

Every Nurse knows that a well-stocked bag can be the difference between a smooth shift and a chaotic one. While hospitals and clinics provide the basics, seasoned Nurses carry their own arsenal of essentials to ensure theyre ready for anything. We asked Nurses from various specialties to share whats always in their bags. Heres what they said: The Must-Haves Stethoscope This is a given, but many Nurses opt for high-quality brands like Littmann for better acoustics.

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NO ROOM FOR “HE SAID/SHE SAID” IN NURSING PART 2

Empowered Nurses

I often receive calls about communications or actions which are taken out of context usually leaving the nurse in trouble because there is no way for her to defend herself. It’s a he said/she said situation. Employers are likely going to believe the patients and not the nurse. Unfortunately, the same can be essentially true with the Board which can entertain hearsay, but it just can’t form the basis of their opinion.

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UMass Nursing Leader Gabrielle Abelard Named 2025 AANP Fellow for Advancing Mental Health Equity and Holistic Care

Minority Nurse

Gabrielle Abelard , a dedicated psychiatric nurse practitioner and clinical associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP)the only honoree from Massachusetts among 51 nurse leaders worldwide. The FAANP program honors nurse practitioners who have made exceptional contributions to education, policy, practice, and research.

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Your Nursing Career: Intention and Attention

Daily Nurse

Your nursing career deserves your focused intention and regular attention. How can you turn that dynamic around if you haven’t been giving your career what it needs? Energy Flows Where Attention Goes It’s a cliche to say that energy flows where attention goes, but sometimes cliches are undeniably true. If you spend your working hours focused on how dysfunctional your management is and how terrible your colleagues are, that level of attention to the negative will keep you locked in a

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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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The Relentless School Nurse: The OpEd Nurses Speak Out – Protect Health, Fund the Future

The Relentless School Nurse

Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills, my friends, “The OpEd Nurses,” are passionate advocates for public health. Drawing on decades of nursing experience, they use thought-provoking opinion pieces to tackle pressing healthcare issues. In their latest Op-Ed in the Portland Tribune , they expose the devastating consequences of proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

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The tinkerer-turned-tech leader

Penn Medicine News

Mitchell Schnall, MD, PhD, is using his insights from technology in radiology to solve problems and scale up changes in the health system.

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The reimagineers of Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine News

Penn Medicine is harnessing technology, innovation, and physician insights to make health care easier for clinicians and patients.

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The connected, creative innovator

Penn Medicine News

Nearly two decades into her tenure at Penn, Raina Merchant, MD, leads teams transforming health care for better patient, clinician, and community experiences.

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Meet the Penn people who fix problems with tech and ingenuity

Penn Medicine News

Driven by a desire to make work easier for colleagues and care better for patients, a team of developers innovates to solve health care problems.

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