Mon.Sep 23, 2024

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A Conversation with Hannah Glover

Josephine Ensign

The best part of my job is working alongside smart, dedicated, and compassionate people who make a positive impact on the lives of people experiencing homelessness. People like Hannah Glover. She is a health navigator at the Elizabeth Gregory Home, a day shelter for women and female-identified people in the University District (U District) of Seattle.

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Your Voice, Your Power: Help Us Fight Injustice in the Nursing Profession

Equality 4 Black Nurses

At Equality 4 Black Nurses, we are not just advocates. We are a movement for change. Right now, we need your voice more than ever. SURVEY HERE If you have been impacted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) investigation into computer-based test (CBT) irregularities at the Yunnik Centre in Ibadan, Nigeria, this is your moment to take a stand.

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Finding a Primary Care Physician Who I Can Partner on My Healthcare Journey

Nurses Advocates

As a nurse case manager, I know having a good primary care physician to partner with on my healthcare journey is essential. I have tried several doctors in my community over the years, but I felt we never were on the same page. They were always so busy; the appointment was on ‘their terms’ so they could check off the boxes instead of listening to me and my concerns.

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Managing Stress for Caregivers in Assisted Living

American Medical Compliance

Caregiving is an inherently demanding profession, especially within assisted living facilities, where caregivers must balance the dual responsibilities of delivering high-quality care and managing their own emotional and physical well-being. The Alzheimer’s Association’s 2024 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures report highlights that 70% of dementia caregivers find coordinating care to be a significant source of stress.

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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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NMC outlines ‘multi-year’ improvement plan

Nursing Times

Read about changes the NMC has said it is making following a damning review into its 'toxic' internal culture.

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Florida college launches nation's 1st AI-in-healthcare master's program

Becker's Hospital Review

Florida State University's College of Nursing is the first university to offer a master's program that weaves artificial intelligence into healthcare — and it is offered online.

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NMC outlines ‘multi-year’ improvement plan

Nursing Times

Read about changes the NMC has said it is making following a damning review into its 'toxic' internal culture.

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Drug-resistant infection looming threat to global health 

Nursing Review

A new study published in The Lancet has forecast that drug-resistant infections will be the direct cause of tens of millions of deaths by the middle of the century. The Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance Project (AMR) predicts that by 2050 there will be approximately 1.91 million global deaths attributable to AMR annually and a further 8.22 million annual deaths associated with AMR.

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Bystander Intervention in Healthcare Empowers Workers to Reduce Workplace Violence

Relias

Workplace violence in healthcare settings, especially in acute care environments, is a pressing issue. Nurses, physicians, and other healthcare staff frequently experience physical and verbal aggression from patients, their families, and even colleagues. In the high-stress world of acute care, where emotions can run high, issues can quickly escalate.

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Govt quiet on damning menopause report

Nursing Review

Health Minister Mark Butler has declined to say how the government intends to respond to a damning report that found both the health system and workplaces were failing women. Released last week, the Senate Community Affairs References Committee's report made 25 recommendations that included giving menopausal women flexible work arrangements, providing extra training to GPs and increasing the time medical students spend studying menopause and perimenopause – the current curriculum only allots an

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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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Dear New Jersey Nurses

American Nurse

New nurses are born all the time, and the New Jersey Nurse readership is growing and changing with each edition. Allow us to reintroduce Healthy Nurse Healthy New Jersey in this shiny, new issue, and explain how to benefit from our initiative. From 2013-2016 the American Nurses Association collected data on the health of over 10,000 US nurses, reporting their findings in the Executive Summary of the American Nurses Association Health Risk Appraisal (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2017).

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“Value us!” – Industrial action escalates to 24hr strike

Nursing Review

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has slammed Tuesday's 24-hour walkout of union member nurses across NSW amid breakdowns in negotiations over pay. The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) announced last week its members would participate in a strike for an entire day from the beginning of the morning shift, with major public rallies being held in Sydney, Tweed and Albury.

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NJSNA President-Elect and Chair, Institute for Nursing

American Nurse

IFN Mission is to preserve the heritage, principles, values, and practices of our healing profession through the support of scholarship, education, and research. IFN Vision is to engender the spirit of giving to nurture the soul of nursing now and or future generations. Matching Donations: An Easy Way to Increase Your Impact If you are like me, you search for ways to make your dollar stretch.

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Nursing Needs a Reality Check: Changing Expectations

Health Leaders | Nursing

Nursing and the expectations of the job have changed drastically in recent years, and CNOs need to understand why to pivot their strategies. Many things have changed in healthcare in the past few years, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of new technologies and workflows. Recruitment and retention have become increasingly more difficult for CNOs and other nurse leaders, as both new graduate nurses and tenured nurses are leaving the workforce at alarming rates.

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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.

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Addressing Racism in New Jersey Nursing

American Nurse

As defined by the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing (2021, as cited in Nursingworld.org, n.d.) racism involves ‘assaults on the human spirit in the form of actions, biases, prejudices, and an ideology of superiority based on race. This persistently causes moral suffering and physical harm of individuals, communities, perpetuates systemic injustices and inequities’ (para. 4).

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Should We Encourage Our Kids to Become Nurses?

Minority Nurse

Ask a hundred nurses if they chose their profession because a family member was a nurse , and many would say yes. I had three aunts who were nurses, and that family legacy certainly impacted my career choice. But in the 21st century, should we encourage our children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other young people to become nurses? Is the guidance to choose nursing a viable and respectable career good advice?

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American Nurses Association Membership Assembly 2024

American Nurse

The day before the Membership Assembly, NJ nurses, along with more than 500 nurses from across the country participated in ANA’s Hill Day meeting with their members of Congress to advance ANA’s federal priorities. During this event, nurses engaged with their Congress members, with the aim of advocating for nurses and the citizens that we serve. The ANA federal priorities were: Restricting Mandatory Overtime for Nurses, Nurse Faculty Shortage Reduction Act (H.R. 7002, S. 2815), Improving Care and

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She Was Accused of Murder After Losing Her Pregnancy

Scrubs

She Was Accused of Murder After Losing Her Pregnancy. SC Woman Now Tells Her Story. Lauren Sausser September 23, 2024 ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer. “Sorry it has taken this long for paperwork to come back,” the officer wrote.

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Leveling the Playing Field: How HR Can Equitably Improve Health Outcomes Through Fertility Benefits

Speaker: Julie B. Chavez - VP, Strategy & Alliances at Carrot

As HR and total rewards professionals, we are often seeking opportunities to foster a better sense of community and belonging amongst employees - ensuring that all employees have an equitable opportunity to receive fertility treatments is one of the many ways this can be achieved. Fertility benefits make it possible for employees to access treatments like IVF.

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A Summary of the ANA’s Membership Assembly Discussion: ANA’s 2024 Political Engagement

American Nurse

Political engagement begins with grassroots advocacy. With strength in numbers, nurses can channel energy into effective action. This presentation provided an overview of a variety of initiatives and resources to support advocacy efforts to improve the nursing environment and the healthcare of our citizens. RNAction.org is ANA’s grassroots community.

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Membership Assembly Lunchtime Discussion

American Nurse

At the Membership Assembly, we had the opportunity to attend a lunchtime discussion. The discussion that I attended was titled, “Nurses Strengthening the Safety Net”. This discussion focused on the work nurses are doing throughout the country to improve the health of people who live in underserved and under-resourced communities. The discussion highlighted what some advanced practice registered nurses are doing in the communities that they serve along with individual patients.

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Want to publish? Study the craft of writing

American Nurse

Do you want to write professionally? As a former nurse peer reviewer, I found that not all nurses with advanced degrees write well. Are they smart and focused professionals? Yes. Do they conduct extraordinary research? Yes. Do they have solid experience in their nursing specialty? Yes. However, not all professionals who have something significant to impart understand and demonstrate the finer nuances of the craft of writing.

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