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Clinical Conflict? Train Your Team to Handle It

American Medical Compliance

Long hours, emotional stress, and fast-paced decision-making can sometimes lead to clinical conflictbetween colleagues, between departments, or even between healthcare workers and patients. Unfortunately, this type of conflict happens more often than many realize. A survey by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) found that 44% of healthcare workers reported hearing negative comments about colleagues or leaders, and 52% witnessed other forms of disrespect, such as lying, false acc

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Beyond the Bedside: Building Financial and Emotional Security as a Minority Home Health Nurse

Minority Nurse

Home health nursing offers numerous rewards, especially if you bring compassion and commitment. But as a minority nurse, you may face challenges that put your physical, emotional, and financial well-being at risk. However, you can meet these challenges and succeed. The Challenges Facing Minority Home Health Nurses You are the foundation of the home healthcare industry, providing necessary support in homes and communities nationwide.

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How El Camino Health Cracked the Code for Lowering Nurse Turnover Rates

Health Leaders | Nursing

Targeting burnout and workplace violence can help CNOs lower nurse turnover, according to this CNO. Nurse turnover rates have been high since the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the five-year anniversary passes, it's important for CNOs to reflect on what they can learn from that time. During the pandemic, nurses were feeling burnt out, and according to Cheryl Reinking , CNO at El Camino Health , overburdened both emotionally and physically.

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D.C. Registered Nurse First Assistant Expands Career with MSN – Family Nurse Practitioner Specialization

Post University

Damon Stone got his start in the healthcare field as a Certified Surgical Technologist. The California native moved to Washington, D.C., for college in the early 1990s, but left to serve as a full-time volunteer at the World Headquarters of Jehovahs Witnesses, then located in Brooklyn Heights, New York. After a couple of years, Damon married Irene Parks (now Irene Stone) and moved to Kentucky to help care for his grandmother and uncle.

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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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The Legacy of Sister Marie Simone Roach: Guardian of the Discipline

Nursology

In MemoriamGuardians of the Discipline Guest Contributor: Meghann BuycoPhD student in Nursing, Trinity Western University, Canada It is an absolute honour to feature Sister Marie Simone Roach (1922-2016) as a Guardian of our Discipline. Sister Roach grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was brought up by a Roman Catholic family.

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From EMT to Enterprise CNO: Dr. Brad Goettl to Lead Nursing Practice for Over 5 Million Nurses

Daily Nurse

Exciting news is emerging from Silver Spring, Maryland: the American Nurses Enterprise , which encompasses the ANA, ANCC, and the American Nurses Foundation, has appointed Dr. Bradley (Brad) Goettl, DNP, DHA, RN, FNP-C, FAAN, as its new Chief Nursing Officer. His appointment will take effect on April 21, 2025. And if youre a nurse wondering whether the person shaping practice standards for over 5 million nurses really gets ityou can rest assured.

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Coalition matches govt’s $100m pledge to fund 200 regional medical students

Nursing Review

Regional and rural Australias doctor shortage is being targeted as an election issue by the Coalition, which is promising to fund an extra 200 medical students to train as general practitioners to work in the bush. Nationally, Australia faces a shortage of 2466 GPs, according to a Department of Health report released last year, and the situation worsens the further you go from a capital city.

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PX Week 2025: Honoring Caregivers, Fostering Trust, and Inspiring Healthcare Experiences

NRC Health

Patient Experience Week is a time to honor healthcare professionals and reflect on the importance of trust, compassion, and connection in care. NRC Healths themeHonoring Caregivers, Fostering Trust, Inspiring Experiencescalls organizations to recognize healthcare heroes, embrace trust-building strategies, and elevate the patient experience. The post PX Week 2025: Honoring Caregivers, Fostering Trust, and Inspiring Healthcare Experiences appeared first on NRC Health.

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Four ways nurses flourish at Providence

Providence

At Providence, we know that to attract, inspire and retain the best nurses, we must support them in every way we can.

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Why Public Health Nurses Matter: Bringing Specialized Knowledge and Skills to Advancing Health Equity

Nursing Inquiry

ABSTRACT Research is needed to better understand how public health nurses (PHNs) contribute to promoting health equity in communities. Our study aimed to fill this gap by exploring what activities PHNs describe they undertake in advancing health equity as well as examining their skills, proficiencies, and training needs specific to health equity work.

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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 government has pledged $10 million for inclusive LGBTQIA+ health care. Here’s what that means

Nursing Review

Earlier this month, the federal government announced a $10 million commitment to make Medicare more inclusive for LGBTQIA+ Australians. It aims to improve their access to inclusive, culturally safe primary care through training and accreditation for GPs, nurses and other health-care providers. The precise details will depend on which training provider wins the governments grant.

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Words from Pope Francis; the People’s Pope

Nurses Advocates

In reading some of the writings from St. Francis after his death, I found an essay he wrote when he was a patient in the hospital a few weeks ago for pneumonia. It rang true for me as a patient. I remember realizing that when we are sick or injured, we go to the emergency department, often by recommendation from our primary care doctor or a referral from the doctor caring for us.

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Indy Explains: Why hasn't NV joined the 41-state nurse licensure compact?

Health Leaders | Nursing

For three consecutive sessions, efforts to join a licensure compact for nurses have stalled. The holdup may lie in a standoff between unions and industry. As of Jan. 1, 2024, there were more than 1,000 open registered nursing positions in Nevada hospitals. Those hospitals would need to hire thousands of nurses to reach the national average of nurse-to-patient ratios, and the problem will only get worse as the existing nursing workforce begins to age out and retire.

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Election update: Labor’s huge Medicare promises, Dutton’s blitz, and PBS vs Trump

Nursing Review

Anthony Albanese has announced a free nationwide 24/7 health advice and after-hours GP telehealth service called 1800MEDICARE as his last big political gambit in the led up to the election. As Coalition leader Peter Dutton prepares a nationwide blitz of marginal seats in the final week of the campaign, Labor is returning to the issue that has seen the Prime Ministers stocks rise in the polls.

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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 Relentless School Nurse: The Local Fallout of Trump’s Cuts to Gun Violence Prevention-Cure4Camden and the Looming Crisis

The Relentless School Nurse

The Trump administrations abrupt cancellation of hundreds of Department of Justice (DOJ) grants has sent shockwaves through communities across the country. Nowhere is this more painfully felt than in cities like Camden, where organizations such as Cure4Camden have been at the forefront of efforts to prevent gun violence. These cuts, justified as a shift in law enforcement priorities, have left local violence prevention groups scrambling and vulnerable communities at risk.

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