Fri.Jan 31, 2025

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Lawmakers debut Precept Nurses Act

Becker's Hospital Review

A group of bipartisan lawmakers have introduced a bill that would create a $2,000 tax credit for nurses who take on preceptor roles to train nursing students.

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The Power of Teamwork in Combating Nursing Home Neglect 

American Medical Compliance

According to the World Health Organization , 1 in 6 adults aged 60 and older has experienced some form of abuse in community settings. This alarming statistic underscores the urgent need for stronger safeguards in long-term care facilities, where vulnerable elderly residents rely on healthcare providers for their well-being. Unfortunately, despite regulations and oversight, nursing home neglect remains a critical issue, often leading to devastating consequences such as malnutrition, infections,

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High fitness to practise referrals ‘masking’ progress with backlog

Nursing Times

Read about the NMC's latest FtP caseload numbers and claims by the regulator that high numbers of new referrals are 'masking' progress made.

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Why Legal Nurse Consulting Is the Easiest Business to Start

Empowered Nurses

Starting a business may sound intimidating, but as a nurse, you already have the perfect foundation to succeed in legal nurse consulting (LNC). In fact, among the many business opportunities available to nurses, legal nurse consulting stands out as one of the easiest and most lucrative to start. Heres why: 1. You Already Have the Expertise As a nurse, you bring years of clinical experience, critical thinking, and knowledge of medical terminology to the table.

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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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Featured Article for VNTW 2025 Conference – Available for Free Download

Nursology

We are delighted to announce that the publisher of Nursing Outlook has made the featured article for our 2025 Virtual Nursology Theory Week available for free download through the months of February and March! Use the DOI link below, then click on “Download PDF” that appears along the bottom of the page!

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The Relentless School Nurse: Silent Scars – Understanding the Hidden Impact of ICE Raids on Children

The Relentless School Nurse

In the shadows of America’s immigration enforcement policies, a silent crisis is unfolding, affecting the most vulnerable members of our society – children. The devastating impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on our students’ physical and mental health is happening in real-time. An article from Visa Verge sheds light on this pressing issue, revealing the deep, lasting scars left on children caught in the crossfire of immigration enforcement actions.

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BAYADA Earns Equality 100 Award for LGBTQ+ Workplace Inclusion

Minority Nurse

BAYADA Home Health Care, a global leader in home health services, has proudly earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRCF) 2025 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), solidifying its position as a trailblazer in LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion. This achievement garners BAYADA the esteemed Equality 100 Award , recognizing its unwavering commitment to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).

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ANA updates ethics code

Becker's Hospital Review

The American Nurses Association's new code of ethics highlights the profession's commitment to improving global health and confronting structural oppression.

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A landmark Oregon hospital staffing law wasn’t enough to avert a massive nurses strike

Health Leaders | Nursing

Oregon lawmakers in 2023 passed a groundbreaking hospital staffing law aimed at curbing nurse burnout, slowing turnover and ensuring safer patient care. Hailed as a major victory by both nurses and hospitals, the law was expected to stabilize the states health care system strained by years of understaffing and high patient loads.

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Loretta Ford, ‘mother’ of the nurse practitioner field, dies at 104

Health Leaders | Nursing

Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of nursing into an area of serious clinical practice, education and research, died on Jan. 22 at her home in Wildwood, Fla. She was 104. Her daughter, Valerie Monrad, confirmed the death. Today there are more than 350,000 nurse practitioners in America; it is one of the fastest growing fields, and last year U.S.

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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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The Winning Edge for Recruiting the Best Nurses

Health Leaders | Nursing

As Gen Z and new technologies arrive simultaneously in the nursing industry, CNOs need to take a hard look at their recruitment strategies. In the latest edition of HealthLeaders' The Winning Edge webinar series, a panel of nurse leaders discussed best practices for recruiting the best nurses. The discussion included three key takeaways : how to reboot the nurse recruitment process, the ways Gen Z nurses are changing the face of recruitment, and how CNOs should leverage social media to help new