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Nurse-Turned-Legislator Gale Adcock Shares Strategies for Strengthening Advocacy Skills

Daily Nurse

North Carolina Senator Gale Adcock , MSN, FNP-BC, nurse-turned-legislator, emphasizes the importance of nurses developing their advocacy skills to influence policymakers effectively, especially when policy and politics are involved. Nurses play a crucial role in advocating for their patients in healthcare settings on a daily basis. However, they tend to hesitate when it comes to speaking up in other settings.

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The ‘World’s Meanest’ Clinical Nursing Instructor

Amercan Journal of Nursing

When I was growing up, my mother kept a short essay called “I Had the World’s Meanest Mother” displayed in our house. She really loved that essay. What I’m writing today is inspired by that essay. It’s not for mothers but for all those clinical instructors who continue to cultivate the next generation of nurses. Student nurse giving a patient a metabolism test/Library of Congress As I sit in the classroom and hear my colleagues talk about their clinical instructors, I remember my own

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Nursing Myths Debunked: Setting the Record Straight

Diversity Nursing

Nursing is a profession enveloped in myths and misconceptions. Despite being one of the most respected careers, many misunderstandings persist about what Nurses do, their level of expertise, and the nature of their work. As a Nursing Career and Information website, we want to clear up some of these common myths and shed light on the realities of the profession.

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Q&A: How to balance brand building and performance marketing in healthcare

NRC Health

Matt Hollenkamp, Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for St. Elizabeth Healthcare shares his insights on strategy and metrics and how NRC Health’s Market Insights tool can measure four key marketing elements identified in a recent Harvard Business Review article about brand building and performance marketing. The post Q&A: How to balance brand building and performance marketing in healthcare appeared first on NRC Health.

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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 First Secular Nursing School

Nursology

Most publications and other available information about Florence Nightingale credit her with establishing the first secular (non-religious affiliated) nursing school in the world.

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Ascension nurse: Ransomware attack makes caring for hospital patients 'so, so dangerous'

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nearly two weeks since the May 8 ransomware attack that took down the computer network across the nation's biggest Catholic health system, employees at Ascension's Michigan hospitals told the Free Press they don't know when all of its tech systems will be restored.

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North Carolina grapples with growing nursing shortage

Health Leaders | Nursing

North Carolina faces an estimated nursing shortage of 12,500 workers by 2033.

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Nurse-turned-legislator Gale Adcock shares strategies for strengthening advocacy skills

Health Leaders | Nursing

North Carolina Senator Gale Adcock, MSN, FNP-BC, nurse-turned-legislator, emphasizes the importance of nurses developing their advocacy skills to influence policymakers effectively, especially when policy and politics are involved.

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HL Shorts: Mentorship as a Retention Strategy

Health Leaders | Nursing

Mentorship between new and tenured nurses is mutually beneficial, this nurse leader says. On this week’s episode of HL Shorts, we hear from Dr. Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association, about how CNOs can create mentorship opportunities to help retain nurses. Tune in to hear her insights.