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Innovative Nurse Practitioners Can Turn the Tide

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioners have been valuable members of the healthcare ecosystem for decades. As providers with increasing practice autonomy, NPs fill significant healthcare delivery gaps. With a growing shortage of primary care physicians , the need for NPs could not be more dire. When NPs approach patient care innovatively, everyone benefits from their creativity.

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5 Ways to Make a Positive Impact in the Nursing Profession

Daily Nurse

Nursing does not always get the glory that it deserves and sometimes gets portrayed in a negative light, but it is one of the best professions in the world. If you are a nurse looking to make an impact, you surely can. Here are five ways you can make a positive impact in the nursing profession. 1. Join a Nursing Organization There are many nursing organizations, from local, state, and national.

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

Trinity Health uses virtual care, teamwork to address workforce, clinical care issues. Trinity Health is taking a team approach in redesigning care delivery inside the hospital, using a three-person model that includes nurses, nursing assistants, and virtual care technology. Gay Landstrom, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAONL, FACHE, FAAN , chief nursing officer for the Michigan-based health system with 101 hospitals in 27 states, says the model, piloted in the summer of 2022 and is now live in roughly 40 sit

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Murmuration: The Balance between Leading and Following in Nursing

Nursology

Contributor: Mary Elaine Southard I was outside this evening when a beautiful occurrence caught my eye. A flock of hundreds of birds did a dance of a murmuration. I watched in awe at this phenomenon and wondered about its significance.

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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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How to Handle a Toxic Work Environment

Celayix

Employees are quitting in droves because of toxic workplace culture, not inadequate compensation, according to a recent analysis from MIT Sloan Management Review. In fact, according to the survey, a toxic workplace culture is 10.4 times more likely to cause employees to quit their jobs. “People don’t leave jobs, they leave toxic work cultures” – Dr.

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Can healthcare's fastest growing job solve nurse shortages?

Becker's Hospital Review

In just one year, the nurse practitioner profession has added 30,000 employees to the workforce, according to data released Nov. 13 by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

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Top Essentials for Travel Nurses

The Gypsy Nurse

Titan Medical Group provided this article. As a travel nurse, you need to make sure you pack your essentials. But what are those? We have put together a list of the top essentials for travel nurses. Find out what they are below. Top Essentials for Travel Nurses Good Shoes Good shoes are crucial for nurses who travel because of the long hours on their feet, often walking or standing throughout shifts.

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How to Create an Effective Shift Swapping Policy

Celayix

Shift swaps are often a hindrance for schedule managers. However, in a time where employees are demanding more flexibility than ever, a shift swapping policy can set boundaries, and relieve stress for schedulers. No matter how much time and effort goes into creating the perfect employee schedule , conflicts will arise from time to time, and that’s life.

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LPNs in modified care delivery models – Reader and Author Responses

American Nurse

In Response to: LPNs in modified care delivery models Dear Editor, The September issue of American Nurse published a paper entitled LPNs in modified care delivery models reporting on a pilot initiative to implement “team nursing.” I applaud the authors for taking an evidence-based approach to pilot their model. However, there are significant errors, the worse one being defining LPNs as “licensed professional nurses” instead of “licensed practical nurses.

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Alumnus’ Gift Advances Arrythmia Research

Consult QD

A $10 million estate gift from Cleveland Clinic alumnus Carmen Paradis, MD (BIE’06) and her husband, Brian McGrath, will help shape the future of cardiac research and patient care at Cleveland Clinic. Mina Chung, MD (Staff’94) , a cardiologist in the Section of Pacing and Electrophysiology, whose area is the focus of the gift, says that it could be “paradigm changing” in providing support for arrhythmia research.

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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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What is the Highest Paying Occupational Therapy Specialty in 2023?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

In the field of rehabilitative sciences, there are many career paths to choose from—especially in fields of occupational therapy (OT). If you’ve completed your undergraduate program and want to establish a career in OT, the first step is going to graduate school. Earn a Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) or Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) with a program that will prepare you to pursue an OT specialty.

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HUB23 Speakers: Improving culture, equity, and the patient experience

NRC Health

HUB23 speakers helped conference attendees engage and transform healthcare together. Here's a look at how our Executive Track presentations provided strategies to focus on culture, equity, and the patient experience. The post HUB23 Speakers: Improving culture, equity, and the patient experience appeared first on NRC Health.

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Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Fuels Job Satisfaction

Nurse.com

Evidence-based practice can rejuvenate your career or indicate that it’s time for a change. According to the American Nurses’ Association (ANA) , evidence-based practice in nursing means providing quality care based on the latest research and knowledge. This approach not only improves and streamline workflows — it prioritizes safety and outcomes for patients.

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Assessing New Business Ideas for Nurse Entrepreneurs

National Nurses in Business Association

New Business Ideas -National Nurses in Business Association - As nurses we are completely in our zone when assessing new patients.

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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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Providence nurses poised to strike Tuesday over staff shortages, safety concerns

Health Leaders | Nursing

Unless there are some 11th-hour negotiations or a settlement, it looks like nurses at a major Snohomish County hospital could walk off the job for days. It's a situation that could compromise care at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett but some nurses are saying that care is already compromised due to poor staffing at the hospital.

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Study Strongly Links Sleep-Related Hypoxia Metrics With Incident Atrial Fibrillation

Consult QD

Sleep-related hypoxia is associated with incident atrial fibrillation (AF) across three different hypoxia measurements and after adjustment for impairment of pulmonary physiology. So finds a retrospective analysis of sleep studies in more than 42,000 patients conducted at Cleveland Clinic over 15 years. “Our findings in a large sample implicate sleep-related hypoxia as an important biological pathway of AF and identify exposure to it as a clinically relevant driver of AF risk,” says first author

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How a Houston hospital reversed the trend of nurses leaving the profession

Health Leaders | Nursing

There are more than five million nurses in the U.S. and a survey shows nearly a third of them are thinking of quitting.

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Emergency room nurse, lost to suicide, called US healthcare system her 'abuser' in haunting letter

Health Leaders | Nursing

Ohio woman's father shared her heartbreaking words to alert others to a nursing crisis.

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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.