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How to take a sabbatical and not go broke!

The Nurse Sabbatical

Conquering the Biggest Obstacle to a Career Break Taking a sabbatical or career break can be an incredibly rewarding and… <p>The post How to take a sabbatical and not go broke! first appeared on The Nurse Sabbatical.

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Top 3 Trends in Nursing in 2024, So Far

Health Leaders | Nursing

CNOs should be ready to adapt to the evolving nature of healthcare while advancing nursing practice, according to this nurse leader. Nurse leaders always have a lot on their plates, so since we are halfway through 2024, it's time for a mid-year check-in. So far this year, the nursing shortage has remained top of mind for many CNOs, followed by the rise of new technologies such as virtual nursing and AI.

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Nurse wellbeing charity warns it is at risk of closing with further funds

Nursing Times

A charity that was set up to support the mental wellbeing needs of nurses and midwives has launched an urgent appeal for funding. Read more.

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Exploring Nursing Specializations: How to Find the Right Nursing Career Path

Post University

You are passionate about nursing and eager to make a difference. There are many ways to accomplish your most ambitious nursing goals, but the most meaningful and personally rewarding opportunities nearly always involve specializations. This provides the chance to hone in on a specific patient population, a compelling setting, or a specific type of disease or series of conditions to deliver more targeted, evidence-based care.

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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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Building a Cameroonian community in Lubbock, Texas

Providence

When Physician Assistant (PA) Sixtus relocated to Lubbock, Texas in 2000, he was the only Cameroonian in the city. He began working at Covenant Health, part of the Providence family, and credits both the organization and the community with profoundly enriching his life. This has inspired him to share that same positive experience with others.

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Navigating Legal and Ethical Issues: Nurses’ Role in Accessing and Using the Death Master File

Daily Nurse

Nurses have a great deal of responsibility when managing sensitive information, including access to the Death Master File (DMF), because they are healthcare professionals entrusted with patient care. This article explores the moral and legal issues that help nurses use the DMF in their practice in a morally responsible manner. The Social Security Administration (SSA) carefully keeps the DMF up to date.

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Tooting My Own Horn: Apex Award 2024

Nurses Advocates

When I started writing my Blog, Nurse Advocate, in 2016, I said I wanted to accomplish three things: To educate people, patients, and caregivers on how to be their own best advocates when they are thrust into the complex healthcare system To educate healthcare professionals to understand how hard it is for people to be ‘patients’ and to encourage them to do their best to use their skills to improve the delivery of care I want to be recognized by peers and others for my writing.

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Supply and demand: Nursing shortfall predicted to grow

Nursing Review

As Australian nurses grapple with sector wide staff shortages, the Department of Health and Aged Care has revealed that demand will continue to outweigh supply for more than a decade. The Nursing Supply and Demand Study has forecast the workforce shortfall for nurses in Australia over the next 12 years using data collected from a number of sources between 2014 and 2022.

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Nurse wellbeing charity warns it is at risk of closing with further funds

Nursing Times

A charity that was set up to support the mental wellbeing needs of nurses and midwives has launched an urgent appeal for funding. Read more.

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$35m for new Cairns TAFE for care and support workers

Nursing Review

A $35m investment will be made into a new aged care, disability support and mental health care and support TAFE centre in Cairns in an effort to fill gaps in industries facing skills shortages. The boost comes as part of a larger plan to build a network of up to 20 TAFE Centres of Excellence in areas of high skills needs around the country. That goal has seen a combined $650m from the Commonwealth and states and territories to carry out reforms listed in the National Skills Agreement that began

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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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The key to nursing across three continents? Empathy

Penn Medicine News

Nursing is more than giving medication and learning all the new technology, said nurse Abheena Jacob, whose career spans more than 18 years and three continents. “It’s feeling empathy for patients.

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‘Nurses can be at the frontline’ – UniSA certificate in allergy nursing

Nursing Review

Over four million Australians are currently affected by allergies and, although precise statistics are not known, medical professionals agree that allergies and rates of anaphylaxis are on the rise. The term 'allergy' covers a number of health issues including, but not limited to: allergic reactions to a food, drug, animal, or other (e.g. latex); eczema; hay fever; asthma; and hives.

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The Subaltern: Illuminating matters of representation and agency in mental health nursing through a postcolonial feminist lens

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Inpatient mental health nursing operates with an overarching goal to support people living with mental health challenges by managing risk of harm to self and others, decreasing symptoms, and promoting capacity to live outside of hospital settings. Yet, dominant, harmful stereotypes persist, constructing patients as less than, in need of saving, and lacking self-control and agency.

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The Lens of the Nurse Observer

Minority Nurse

Every human being sees the world through a variety of lenses. There are lenses of family roles (e.g., mother, father, child, grandparent), lenses of identity (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, race, citizenship, religion), and many others, including lenses of profession and career. How we see the world is filtered through the lenses we wear, most of which we wear simultaneously.

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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.