June, 2023

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Using AI to Transform Nursing Education 

Daily Nurse

Big data and machine learning already impact most aspects of modern life, so there is growing optimism about using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform health provider education. Cristina Lussiana is a senior program manager of digital health and monitoring at Population Services International ( PSI ) and an expert in the health applications of AI.

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Benefits of Taking Time Off Between Travel Nursing Contracts

Premier Medical Staffing

Job Information Job Profession: Benefits of Taking Time Off Between Travel Nursing Contracts Job State: Job Location: Job Specialty: Job Assignment: Nursing is an inherently stressful profession , and f or travel nurses, changing scenery every 13 weeks can compound stress. Travel nursing comes with so many amazing benefits, but it is not without its challenges.

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How to Reduce Interprofessional Conflict

Healthy Workforce Institute

Interprofessional conflict in healthcare is on the rise. Not only does this conflict cause tension between healthcare professionals, but it ultimately impacts patient care. If anyone on the healthcare team isn’t comfortable or willing to communicate with anyone else on the team, it directly impacts a patient. As a healthcare leader, therefore, it is essential to address and mitigate these conflicts to promote a respectful and healthy work culture that ensures safe, quality patient care.

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Use This 5-Step Approach To Market Your Small NP Practice Effectively

Nurse Practitioners in Business

What do you do to market your NP-Practice effectively? Before we answer that question, though, let’s get one thing out in the open… Too many small business owners believe they don’t need to market their business. But that’s a dangerous belief! I am here to tell you that marketing is essential, no matter the type or size of business, if you want to stay in and grow your business.

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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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What’s Trending Now

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN This week marks the mid-point of the calendar year 2023. Most healthcare leaders had hoped that 2023 would be less turbulent, but most of the previous three years’ challenges continue. Here is what nurse leaders are talking about now: The financial margins for for-profit systems are improving. […] The post What’s Trending Now appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Ambiverts Unite!

Candy Campbell

Summer's here and I'm recently back home after 2.5 weeks away, where I visited 3 cities. Don't get me wrong. I had an AMAZING time in Vegas, learning and socializing with 23 other creative entrepreneurs, enjoying family and friends in my birthplace of Portland, and visiting more family and friends and performing in San Francisco area. However, I'm still exhausted.

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New Grad Nurse Season

The Nursing Site

Although nurses graduate each term, May and June remain known for new grad nurse season. Congratulations to all the new grads whether you be total newbies or seasoned nurses with a higher education degree. Welcome to the nursing family You are all so very needed! For the newbies, the NCLEX is next for RN’s and LPN/LVNs. Time to hit the books again.

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‘Essential’: hospital staffing key concern for NSW’s new health minister

Nursing Review

The NSW Health Minister is prioritising fairer staffing ratios in hospitals and better working conditions for the state's frontline workers. Health Minister Ryan Park told Nursing Review he planned to address staffing shortages, high work pressure, and recruitment challenges. "We need to ensure our healthcare workers are at the heart of our healthcare system," Mr Park said.

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Transform Your Practice With The “4 Ps of Marketing” Framework

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Do you utilize a framework in your Nurse Practitioner practice? When you work with your patients and do your marketing? Not sure …? Chances are you do, even though you may not call it a framework. Although there are formal frameworks, with fancy names, across all different fields, most of us have our own informal frameworks we use every day. After all, a framework is nothing else but a tool to help us make structured decisions.

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Culture Shock

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I spent last week at the Gallup Work Summit. Researchers at Gallup have been studying workforce and workplace issues for more than 50 years. They are well-positioned to look at data across time and advise leaders on the future of the work. So when they report that […] The post Culture Shock appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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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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Revealing Connection Between BMI and Right-Colon Cancer

Consult QD

A study by researchers at Cleveland Clinic in Florida identified a linear increase in advanced nodal disease linked to increased body mass index (BMI) for patients with right-colon cancer. This interesting finding could have implications for the assessment and treatment of patients with obesity diagnosed with colon cancer, according to lead author Sameh H.

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Expanding HIV Prevention for Pride Month: Empowering Communities with New PrEP Modalities

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

Hello, Pride community! This is Amit “Mickey” Dhir, I am a Ph.D. student at JHSON and my research specifically focuses on HIV prevention and its impact within key populations. As we celebrate Pride Month, it’s essential to highlight the advancements in HIV prevention that are revolutionizing the fight against the epidemic. Today, we’ll explore new… The post Expanding HIV Prevention for Pride Month: Empowering Communities with New PrEP Modalities appeared first on Johns Hopkins

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Where do pronouns go on a resume?

New Thing Nurse

Where do pronouns go on a resume? By. Sarah K. Wells, MSN, RN, CEN, CNL A person’s pronouns can never be assumed. It is important to ask what pronouns people use when speaking to them at work. This can be difficult during job applications. Most online job application software do not have a space for pronouns, and pronouns are important. A resume can help fix that.

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The Exec: Nurse Satisfaction is Rising, Patient Calls are Falling with UnityPoint Health's New Care Model

Health Leaders | Nursing

The new Collaborative Care Model is rooted in positioning team members to practice at top of their licensure. When UnityPoint Health began exploring new inpatient care delivery models, D’Andre Carpenter, DNP, RN , chief nursing officer, wanted to go beyond the concept of team-based care to position nurses and other clinicians to practice at the top of their license.

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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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How to Tap into the Healing Power of Color, Sound, and Art in Your Practice

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Can color, sound, and art influence how people feel in healthcare settings? Yes! We’ve known it for years, and research has shown that color, sound, and art affect a patient’s mood and the experience of the healthcare encounter. But let’s take a closer look, starting with color. Color in Healthcare Different colors may produce different psychological responses, so we’ll limit our discussion to the most common colors.

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The Challenge with Using Interim Leaders

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nursing leadership is hard today. Unsurprisingly, using interim leaders to fill a void for these hard-to-recruit positions is rising. Sometimes the leader has been placed by an executive recruiting firm, but more often, they are internal candidates who still need to be offered or are unwilling to […] The post The Challenge with Using Interim Leaders appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Where have all the preceptors gone? Nurse leaders offer strategies to build a pipeline

Becker's Hospital Review

Nurse leaders explain why hospitals are having trouble recruiting preceptors and offer strategies to incentivize experienced nurses to take on educational leadership roles

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25 Wellness Tips for Nurses to Boost Happiness and Well-being

Daily Nurse

Being a nurse is incredibly rewarding yet demanding, but caring for others and ensuring their well-being can sometimes take a toll on your happiness and overall wellness. That’s why nurses must prioritize self-care and find ways to boost their happiness! Importance of a Nurse’s Well-being This blog post will discuss 25 wellness tips specifically tailored for nurses to increase their happiness and overall well-being.

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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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Healthy workplaces, healthy nurses

American Nurse

Two healthcare systems take the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation mission to heart. Penn Medicine Princeton Health and Orlando VA Health Care System (OVAHCS) are making nurses wellness a priority with programs that incorporate physical and mental health. Penn Medicine Princeton Health Making staff wellness a part of a hospitals strategic plan ensures it becomes a… This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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Nursing Groups Denounce AMA's Effort to Regulate Advanced Practice RNs

Health Leaders | Nursing

'The AMA is again adopting policies encouraging laws and regulations that impede competition and help their bottom line.' Nursing groups are denouncing the American Medical Association 's recent policy amendment calling for advanced practice RNs (APRNs) to be licensed and regulated jointly by the state medical and nursing boards. The policy amendment was passed by the AMA's House of Delegates (HOD), the policy-making body of the organization, during its annual meeting last week in Chicago.

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NPs and Professional Liability Insurance: Getting it Right

Nurse Practitioners in Business

Professional liability insurance, also known as malpractice insurance, is a crucial component of protecting nurse practitioners (NPs) in their practice. Whether you’re a business owner or employed by someone else, having your own policy is essential. Even if your employer provides coverage, it’s important to evaluate the terms as it often prioritizes the interests of the business.

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Team-Based Nursing Care – Getting Started

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN In a study released by Incredible Health, 94% of health executives outside of nursing now describe the nursing shortage as critical, and 68% note they would now be unprepared to handle another health emergency like COVID. Their data indicates that 53% of nurses working in health systems […] The post Team-Based Nursing Care – Getting Started appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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The Resilient Nurse, Episode 3: Speaking Up With Integrity

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

Episode 3 of The Resilient Nurse discusses how nurses can identify their values, speak up with integrity, and use resilience to remain empowered. Featured guests include Jennifer Dalton, an R3 Champion and Simulation Manager at the University of Maryland School of Nursing at the Universities at Shady Grove campus, and Selena St. Jules, a nursing… The post The Resilient Nurse, Episode 3: Speaking Up With Integrity appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Compassionate Care: 4 Ways Nurses Can Improve Patient Care

Daily Nurse

Compassion is a common trait among health professionals, and compassionate care ensures that patients feel respected and well-cared for during their stay and can even speed up recovery. However, compassion is often misunderstood in the medical world. Compassion is more than being kind to patients or checking in regularly with folks with acute illnesses.

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Why addiction treatment is a growing field for nurses

American Nurse

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 2020 and 2030 careers for counselors in the fields of substance use, behavioral disorders, and mental health could grow by 23%. For nurses, this means many great opportunities exist for excellent, fulfilling roles in the field of addiction and mental health. As a psychiatric mental-health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) working at an inpatient detox and rehab facility, I can tell you that my job challenges me every day, but it is also incredi

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How Nurse Licensure Compacts Can Ease Chronic Nursing Shortages

Health Leaders | Nursing

NLCs are 'one tool in the toolbox' for broader workforce discussions, NCSBN official says. Nurse Licensure Compacts (NLCs) may be “one tool in the toolbox” to help ease chronic nursing shortages reaching into every state and practically every health facility, says Nicole Livanos , director of state affairs at the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).

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Meet the Author of Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

Minority Nurse

Britney Daniels, RN, MSN, is a Black queer ER nurse from Chicago who is passionate about social justice and healthcare equity. She’s also the author of Journal of a Black Queer Nurse , a memoir about her experiences navigating the inequities she faced as an ER nurse on the front lines of COVID-19. Minority Nurse spoke with Daniels to learn more about her memoir and what she hopes readers can learn about what nurses of color experience at work.

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Learning From Failure

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I recently did a workshop and a young leader in the workshop reached out to me after the session. She was looking for advice on how to bounce back from a leadership failure. Her story is one that I have heard before from leaders beginning their leadership […] The post Learning From Failure appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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400 nurses travel to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to address unsafe working conditions

Becker's Hospital Review

Nurses have been calling for U.S. legislators to take action to address the national nurse staffing crisis for months to no avail. Almost 400 nurses traveled to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 15 to make sure Congress hears their message — loud and clear.

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Healthy Work Environments Are Essential

Daily Nurse

It is well known that many U.S. healthcare organizations face a significant nurse staffing challenge, and as leaders and administrators seek solutions, we must emphasize an essential element of nurse recruitment and retention — establishing and sustaining healthy work environments (HWEs). The most recent “ National Nurse Work Environments” study , conducted in 2021 by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), shows that the health of nurse work environments across the country has

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LGBTQ+ nursing: Glancing back, looking forward

American Nurse

In America and in many parts of the world, June is celebrated as LGBTQ+ Pride Month, a celebration of the Stonewall uprising in the early hours of June 28, 1969, signaling the gay liberation movement. The first time I saw the phrase gay pride , I didn’t quite understand its loaded meaning. I grew up thinking, one takes pride for having achieved something or mastered a skill, not for something I did nothing to become, such as being born gay or lesbian.

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Nursing Care Plan for Risk for Infection

NurseBuff

Do you need a guide for nursing diagnosis for infection? As a nurse, you have a very important role when it comes to preventing infections. You are at the front line when it comes to delivering quality care so you need to be aware of what can and can’t compromise your patients’ health while they […] The post Nursing Care Plan for Risk for Infection appeared first on NurseBuff.

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LGBTQIA+ Community Nursing Representation Is Essential

Minority Nurse

As LGBTQIA+ nurses celebrate June’s Pride Month, they continue to advocate for accessible and safe care for the LGBTQIA+ community and for a nursing workforce that represents the populations they serve. Jeff Day, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, CNEcl, who is chair of the nursing section of GLMA and a medical provider at Callen-Lorde a New York City-based community health center and a global leader in LGBTQIA+ healthcare, says a diverse nursing workforce is essential to good patient care, but it also make