Mon.Jan 06, 2025

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Cultural Competence vs Cultural Humility: What’s the Difference?

Nursology

Danielle Brochu With the increasing spotlight on the demand for implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives through the healthcare industry and beyond, nurses will likely encounter ideologies and perspectives that may be unfamiliar to them in the context of their work. A common concept, albeit one that is waning in popularity, is cultural competence, … Continue reading Cultural Competence vs Cultural Humility: Whats the Difference?

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Your Nursing Career Resolutions

Daily Nurse

If you’re starting the new year with resolutions to exercise more, lose weight, watch less TV, or otherwise improve yourself, have you also considered making a few resolutions regarding your nursing career and professional development? While resolving to get in shape is a common direction for our thoughts to turn as the calendar flips from one year to the next, we don’t necessarily want to skimp on this other essential aspect of our lives.

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How CNOs Can Help Nurse Managers in 2025

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nurse managers are the 'CEOs' of their patient care area, and it's the CNO's job to support them, according to this nurse leader. It's a new year, and people all around the world are setting new goals and resolutions for themselves, including CNOs. In 2025, CNOs and other nurse leaders will have to keep track of many different trends and challenges, including the ones facing a critical part of the workforce: nurse managers.

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How to Join Your Local Union to Find Nursing Support

Minority Nurse

Nurses face difficult situations at work, but when they become too much, a support group or union can help them advocate for fair workplace rights. Unions have existed since the early 1900s as a way for workers to enforce fair workplace practices. But unionizing can be tricky depending on where you live in the U.S. States like California, Washington State, and New York have laws that make collective bargaining easier, while other states, such as Texas, have laws that limit union activity.

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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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Understaffed and overwhelmed: Nurse shortages plague New York hospitals

Health Leaders | Nursing

New York hospitals are not adequately staffing nurses, according to a new report. The New York State Nurses Association report showed between January and October 2024, hospitals failed to staff intensive care units and critical care patients at the state-mandated ratio more than 50% of the time. The report also said most hospitals do not publicly post staffing ratios as state law requires.

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It Took a Village: New Mother and Psychiatric Nurse Earns MSN Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Post University

When Mercy Irura graduated high school in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2003, she did what many of her classmates did and enrolled in an associate degree program in Business Information Technology at Strathmore University. Soon, however, Mercy and her sisters were allowed to join their mother in the United States. She had moved to Massachusetts when I was in the seventh grade, so it was always our plan to follow her, she says.

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Back for Seconds: NYC Nurse and American Sentinel MSN Alumna Returns for Doctorate Degree

Post University

Nursing is a tradition in Jackie Zeiglers family. Her mother is a nurse, which influenced Jackie and her sister to follow in her footsteps. Two of Jackies cousins and those cousins daughters are nurses as well. Everyone earned their degrees at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. I am a giver, and I think my family is where that compassion for others comes from, says Jackie, who grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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The Relentless School Nurses: Nursing Voices Unite – The Case Against RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary

The Relentless School Nurse

Have you read perspective pieces from Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills, the dynamic nursing duo, I call “The OpEd Nurses.” They have earned this title through their impactful opinion writing, where they consistently challenge healthcare policies that threaten public health. As leaders in Nurses for America, Gaffney and Mills translate complex health issues into accessible, evidence-based arguments, advocating for patient rights and informed healthcare practices.

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January 24, 2025 – Virtual Workshop for Graduate Nursing Student Projects

Nursology

Applying the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) for DNP & PhD Graduate Nursing Student Projects Date/Time: Friday, January 24, 1-4PM ET (12-3 PM CT, 11AM-2PM MT 10AM-1PM PT) Our upcoming workshop is designed exclusively for graduate nursing students who are eager to delve deep into the intricacies of the Roy Adaptation Model for use in projects.

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The compassionate team behind CAR T cancer breakthroughs

Penn Medicine News

Clinical research professionals quiet work with patients and data behind the scenes is vital to moving innovative research forward.

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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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Agency nurses linked to lower CMS nursing home quality ratings

Health Leaders | Nursing

A new study involving more than 80,000 US nursing homes has found a link between the use of staffing agency nurses and lower quality ratings in the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Five-Star system. The use of agency registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants decreased a facilitys chance of attaining higher star ratings by 4%, 5% and 4%, respectively, researchers discovered.