July, 2019

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NEW BoardVitals Question Bank Enhancements

Board Vitals - Nursing

At BoardVitals, we take pride in our product and strive to continue to improve it. We’re excited to bring new features to our users to give them more control in creating practice quizzes and evaluating progress in their learning. Question Difficulty Level We’ve developed an algorithm to give each question a difficulty level (Easy, Moderate, and Hard).

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My Journey to Becoming An Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Abnormalities

I could have been a physician. I could have been a physician’s assistant. But I chose to become an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. There were many reasons for this decision honestly, some conventional and some not so much, but now that I am experiencing the role first-hand, it is evident that it was the right choice for me. With that being said, I want to emphasize that it was the right choice for me, which means it might not be the right choice for you, and that is 100% okay!

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Four benefits of the online RN-BSN program at The Chicago School

The Chicago School

Discover how earning your BSN from a psychology school can prepare you to advance your career and provide patients a more integrated approach to health care. The post Four benefits of the online RN-BSN program at The Chicago School appeared first on Insight Digital Magazine.

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Managing bedbugs in healthcare settings

Nursing Management

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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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Disclosing Personal Mental Illness as a Nurse

Board Vitals - Nursing

In online forums and chat rooms, nurses are asking if they have to disclose mental health issues on job applications. The wording varies by state and organization, but the request is the same -“Have you ever been diagnosed with, do you have or have you had a physical, mental, emotional, or psychiatric condition that might affect your ability to safely practice as a nurse?

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Re-entering the Healthcare Workforce as an NP after 10 Years

Board Vitals - Nursing

After finishing graduate school and working for a few years as a Family Nurse Practitioner, I took some time off to raise my family. 10 years to be exact. Although this is not an uncommon thing for women to do, I found re-entering the healthcare workforce to be far more challenging than I thought. Here is a snapshot of my journey, and some advice to help those of you who may be in a similar situation.

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