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HIPAA Violations and Small Practices

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Small practices are at risk for HIPAA violations. Here are the 5 most common types and their consequences. Are you prepared? HIPAA, aka the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, requires providers and healthcare organizations to protect patient health information. The official definition of HIPAA is: “The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient healt

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How Will the AACN's New Staffing Standards Impact CNOs?

Health Leaders | Nursing

These new AACN guidelines have the potential to impact how CNOs handle staffing in their health systems. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses ( AACN ) hast published the AACN Standards for Appropriate Staffing in Adult Critical Care , in an effort to help health systems tackle nurse staffing. The standards The seven key standards are designed to help leaders "incorporate appropriate staffing into everyday operations and patient care," according to a press release.

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Why Mentorship?

American Nurse

Successful mentoring relationships require chemistry and accountability. Over the past half-century, nursing education has undergone significant transformation at all levels. The shift from the apprenticeship model to university-based education has produced highly educated nurses who may or may not be practice-ready to tackle multiple complex patients upon graduation.

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Nurse practitioners advocate for lifting practice restrictions

Health Leaders | Nursing

Lawmakers don’t often see nurses lobbying in the Capitol, but they’ve had a weekly presence in the building this session as they lobby for independent practice for advanced practice nurses, or APRNs.

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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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Virtual reality: Treating pain and anxiety

American Nurse

Implementation strategies and considerations Takeaways: Virtual reality is a computer simulation system that creates an interactive, three-dimensional environment in which users experience a sense of physical presence via auditory, visual, and tactile stimuli. Research indicates that VR’s immersive nature can provide an effective means of distraction to aid increases in pain tolerance thresholds and decreases in perceived pain intensity, anxiety, and time spent thinking about pain.

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Celebrate National Nurses Week — and Read Our Nurse Salary and Job Satisfaction Report

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National Nurses Week is an annual celebration that honors the contributions of nurses. It begins on May 6, National Nurses Day , and ends on May 12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. This year, the theme of National Nurses Week is “Nurses Make the Difference,” highlighting the impact of the nursing profession on our lives.

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Nurses picket for proper safe staffing, Memorial Hospital responds with statement

Health Leaders | Nursing

Bakersfield nurses are picketing for safer conditions Thursday morning. Pillar: CNO Link: Full story Article Source: BakersfieldNow.

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