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Self-Awareness in Leadership

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nursing leadership success today demands a very high level of emotional intelligence. There are five essential skills to becoming more emotionally intelligent. These include: Self-awareness – knowing one’s strengths, weaknesses, drives, values, and impact on others. Self-regulation – controlling or redirecting impulses and moods.

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Adventures in lifelong learning

American Nurse

Terry Pope takes nursing continuing education to new heights Terry Pope After a stint as an ICU charge nurse, Terry Pope, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, knew that leadership was her calling. From that point, she took on various leadership roles, from nurse manager to vice president to chief nursing officer. She loved coaching nurses—helping them grow, learn, and gain new skills—which led her to do something she had never considered: She started her own business in nursing continuing education.

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Texas looks to retain rural nurses with $15K stipends

Becker's Hospital Review

Texas hospitals are bracing for a projected shortage of around 12,572 nurses by 2032. With an aim to close some of the anticipated gap, the state opened applications June 3 for its inaugural rural nurse retention initiative, which would fund $15,000 stipends for qualified nurses.

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Making peace with imperfection

American Nurse

Working as a nurse with OCD Takeaways: Undiagnosed obsessive compulsive disorder can create challenges in daily functioning, including in the workplace. Accurate diagnosis, treatment, and continued support can help nurses with this condition thrive in their careers. Author’s note: Although I’m someone who suffers with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), I’m not a mental health professional.

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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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Sister’s Cancer Diagnosis Inspires Taylor Fry to Pursue Career as an Oncology Nurse

Daily Nurse

Taylor Fry, RN, BSN, was a sophomore in high school when her younger sister, Grace, battled acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Fry supported her sister through every treatment, and watching Grace beat cancer inspired her to become an oncology nurse. After completing high school, Fry pursued a nursing degree and now works as a registered nurse in the Inpatient Hematology/Oncology unit at Children’s Nebraska – with the same team at the hospital that saved her sister’s life.

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ANA Enterprise News, June 2024

American Nurse

Loressa Cole, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, former CEO of the ANA Enterprise, was honored with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Distinguished AACN Partner Award at a ceremony in March. The award recognizes individuals who have had a significant and sustained collaborative relationship with AACN on issues impacting nursing education, practice, regulation, and policy at the national level and a strong commitment to advancing academic nursing education.

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Oncology nursing: Clinical assistant onboarding

American Nurse

Immersion, simulation, and adaptation result in a successful program for nursing students. Takeaways: Early introduction to oncology nursing should be included in nursing school curricula. Adapting a hybrid format for student orientation can prove beneficial to all stakeholders. Cancer care includes complex communication, and nurses require skills training equipped help them have these conversations with patients.

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Recommendations for Management of Acute Dental Pain Training

American Medical Compliance

The Recommendations for Management of Acute Dental Pain Training will educate dental healthcare providers (DHCP) on managing dental pain with or without the use of opioids. Effective management for acute dental pain is a critical aspect of dental practice, directly impacting patient comfort and satisfaction. As dental healthcare providers, staying updated on the latest guidelines and best practices is essential to deliver optimal care.

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Confidence is in

American Nurse

Find the balance between confidence and arrogance, humility and insecurity “Our doubts are traitors and cause us to miss the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Takeaways: The ideal of authentic leadership is rooted in confidence. Even the most seasoned nurses and nurse leaders struggle with confidence and feel insecure during many points in their careers.

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DEA Information for Dental Healthcare Practitioners Training

American Medical Compliance

The DEA Information for Dental Healthcare Practitioners Training educates dental healthcare practitioners (DHCP) on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) policies for controlled substances. As dental healthcare practitioners, understanding the regulations and guidelines set forth by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is crucial for maintaining compliance and ensuring safe prescribing practices.

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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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Taking on health disparities

American Nurse

2024 ANA Innovation Award winners – The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Nurses Foundation announced the 2024 ANA Innovation Award winners in March during a LinkedIn livestream event (youtube.com/watch?v=57HffSKvf0Q). These annual awards, sponsored by Stryker, a global medical technology company, celebrate exemplary nurse innovators who improve patient safety and outcomes This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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LPN vs RN: How to Choose the Right Path for You

CynaMed

2 minute read Throughout the world, medical professionals are helping people in need. In particular, nurses diligently take care of patients daily. However, many don’t fully know that there are different types of nurses. If you’re curious about becoming a nurse, let’s cover the differences between an LPN vs RN. RN vs LPN: What’s the Difference?

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When laws and nursing ethics collide

American Nurse

I live in a state that restricts access to certain healthcare services, and in some cases requires me to report things that will compromise the health of my patients. What am I to do? This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.

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Start your nursing career as a clinic LVN

Providence

Many nurses begin their careers as a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) in a clinic setting.

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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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The power of language

American Nurse

How nurses describe themselves and the work they do influences perceptions of the profession. Language isn’t just how we communicate—it’s how we think. That’s what makes paying attention to language a powerful, yet often underused, tool in understanding and designing the world around us. As we rebuild, reimagine, and redesign nursing and our healthcare system in a post-pandemic era, it’s time for some new language.

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The workplace factor determining whether nurses stay or leave

Becker's Hospital Review

A New York City-based New York University study found that support at work was the strongest predictor of nurses staying in their jobs.

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Increasing diversity in nursing with support from Nurses on Boards Coalition

American Nurse

With the goal of enhancing health equity across the United States by increasing the number of underrepresented nurses on boards, commissions, and appointments, the American Nurses Foundation (the Foundation) approved a 2-year grant of over $83,000 for the Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC). The results of this collaboration are now available for all nurses interested in serving on a govern-ing body.

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“We are not the person we will be when these things happen:” Reflections on personhood from an ethnography of neuropalliative care

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Neuropalliative care developed to address the needs of patients living with life-limiting neurologic disease. One critical consideration is that disease-related changes to cognition, communication, and function challenge illness experiences and care practices. We conducted an ethnography to understand neuropalliative care as a phenomenon; how it was experienced, provided, conceptualized.

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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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Tailored falls prevention plans

American Nurse

Customize care to each patient’s unique fall risk. Lillee Gelinas Nurses make significant contributions to patients’ experiences, safety, and healing. Today, with such a strong evidence base in place to demonstrate the correlation between nursing care and patient outcomes, we must keep our focus on proven practices and core interventions—frequently called “nursing basics” or the “essence of nursing.

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At Red Cross National Headquarters, a Vision of Past and Present Priorities

Amercan Journal of Nursing

The author speaking to the Clara Barton tour group before the Tiffany stained glass windows at national Red Cross headquarters. “Because of the climate crisis, the Red Cross launches nearly twice as many relief operations for major disasters than it did a decade ago.” Today a group of us tracing the career and legacy of Clara Barton arrived at the ornate national Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., a building I have been at countless times over my last 48 years of volunteerin

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A diversified profession

American Nurse

More men in nursing supports population and workforce health. All nurses—regardless of gender—should be concerned that the nursing profession remains predominantly female. In 2023, men comprised just 12.6% of RNs and 10.2% of nurse practitioners (NPs), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These figures have changed only modestly since 2013, when 10% of RNs and 8.2% of NPs were men.