Fri.Jun 14, 2024

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To Address the Nursing Faculty Shortage, Start with the Pay Gap

Amercan Journal of Nursing

The salary gap between clinical and faculty roles. Photo by AXP Photography on Unsplash There is a national shortage of nursing faculty to educate the future nurse workforce. The biggest barrier to recruiting and retaining nursing faculty is the salary gap between the faculty and clinical nursing roles. Nurses routinely take pay cuts of as much as $40,000 when leaving clinical practice to teach full-time.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Cara Lunsford

Minority Nurse

Cara Lunsford is the VP of Community at Nurse.com , fostering a community where nurses can find peer support, allies, professional opportunities, resources, and education. She ’ s also the host of Nurse.com ’ s NurseDot Podcast and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, highlighting a variety of voices within the nursing industry while also speaking to her personal experiences as an RN and founder of HOLLIBLU, a social networking app exclusively for nurses (acquired by Nurse.com in 2022).

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Threat of nurse visa freeze warrants Congressional action, healthcare recruiters say

Becker's Hospital Review

The American Association of International Healthcare Recruitment is urging Congress to pass the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act amid concerns of a potential nurse visa freeze.

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The Exec: CNO Jesus Cepero on Strategies for Modern Nursing Issues

Health Leaders | Nursing

Creating the workforce of the future is one of the biggest challenges for nurse leaders, says this CNO. Dr. Jesus Cepero, PhD, RN, NEA-BC , has spent his entire career in nursing leadership roles, and is passionate about the care of babies, children, and moms. Cepero earned a doctorate in nursing from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a Master of Science in Nursing from Kean University.

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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 1 hospital 'Ubered' in extra nurses and recruited them as staffers

Becker's Hospital Review

St. Louis-based SSM Health adopted a contract on-demand nursing model with workforce partner ShiftMed in 2023 to supplement gaps in staffing. Since then, the hospital has converted about 100 on-demand nurses into staff, chief nurse Jennifer Garnica, RN, BSN, told Becker's.

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How to Boost Recruitment with Innovative Employee Referral Programs

Ensearch

In today’s competitive job market, finding top healthcare employees is more challenging than ever. Traditional recruitment methods often yield limited results, leading healthcare organizations to explore innovative strategies for attracting qualified NNPs and other healthcare providers. Among these strategies, employee referral programs stand out as a powerful way to source exceptional talent while fostering a [.

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The Exec: Jesus Cepero on Strategies for Modern Nursing Issues

Health Leaders | Nursing

Creating the workforce of the future is one of the biggest challenges for nurse leaders, says this CNO. Dr. Jesus Cepero, PhD, RN, NEA-BC , has spent his entire career in nursing leadership roles, and is passionate about the care of babies, children, and moms. Cepero earned a doctorate in nursing from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a Master of Science in Nursing from Kean University.

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From the Midwest to the Middle East

American Nurse

While recovering from dysentery, suffering from food insecurity, and treating reused water bottles with chlorine tablets, I crouched in the corner of the library at the European Gaza Hospital. It had been weeks since I had been alone, and the library offered the only place I had been able to find where I could safely sit in solitude. In the light from the hospital courtyard where refugees were cooking and doing laundry, I read the dedication in War Surgery, a book by the International Red Cross

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