February, 2020

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What a Nurse Manager is Evaluating During Your Interview

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

pricelessphotos/123RF.com When you go into a nursing interview, there are several things that the manager interviewing you will be looking for. These things will help the interviewer to determine if she/he wants to hire you for the position and will be the factors used to compare you with other applicants. While every manager or facility will use a different hiring process or different interview formats, the things that an interviewing manager will typically be looking for, even subconsciously,

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What Healthcare CFOs Should Know About the CRNA Shortage

Ringo

The current Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) shortage is predicted to continue for several years, and is especially difficult for rural hospitals. Healthcare administrators will need a variety of tools to maintain staffing and patient care levels.

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Meditate When You’re Broken…

Minding The Bedside

Meditation is about being different from who you usually are in your habitual patterns. It's about saying "no" to the way that you usually do things; reacting to anger with anger, reacting to disappointment with despair, reacting to joy with mindless abandon. Meditation is about saying "yes" to all that life offers, no matter how happy or sad you are.

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NCLEX® Test Day Preparation Tips

Board Vitals - Nursing

You went through years of nursing school, spent hundreds of hours studying, woke up early, stayed up late, and now FINALLY it’s time for the final step before you get the shining “RN” behind your name. As a recent nurse grad, I’ve been through the stress of preparing for the NCLEX®. Here are some of my biggest tips for you, in preparation for your NCLEX® test day. 1.

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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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Nursing and HR collaboration for successful RN recruitment

Nursing Management

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How to Cut Healthcare Staffing Costs While Maintaining Patient Care

Ringo

Although healthcare staffing is an $11.1 billion industry and is responsible for about 60 percent of hospital costs, it’s crucial for healthcare facilities to maintain adequate staff while simultaneously providing robust patient services. Understaffed hospitals and doctors’ offices curtail the provider’s ability to deliver services—which bring in revenue—and consequently, reduce the quality of patient care.

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Understanding the Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice

Board Vitals - Nursing

If you are in healthcare, you have no doubt heard the term “silver tsunami” to refer to the growing population of seniors in the United States. As Baby Boomers age, they are creating an expanding need for healthcare. With a looming shortage of physicians, advanced practitioners are filling provider gaps in a wide range of healthcare environments. What does a nurse practitioner scope of practice encompass, and how does it differ from that of a physician assistant ?

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7 Tips for Writing a Great Recommendation Letter

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

stokkete/123FR.com A member of your team asked you to write a letter of recommendation for her. While it is sad when a valued colleague moves on professionally, you want to showcase her talents in the most effective manner possible. However, you do not want to spend hours writing a recommendation letter for medical school or a new position. There are several steps you can take to quickly write an effective letter of recommendation for someone pursuing a new position or graduate education. 1.

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A Few Reasons to Be Excited About Healthcare in 2020

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

Sergey Nivens/123RF.com The pace of innovation in healthcare would bring a quizzical smile to the forefathers of medicine. By living in the future , brilliant minds are radically altering all aspects of the medical arena in today’s world. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare The deployment of artificial intelligence in healthcare is projected to be a $6 billion market by 2020 and $200 billion by 2025.

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Nurse preceptors: A valuable resource for adapting staff to change

Nursing Management

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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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Scope of Practice: Physicians and Advanced Level Practitioners

Board Vitals - Nursing

The standing definition of “ scope of practice ” is “the activities that an individual healthcare practitioner is permitted to perform within a specific profession, based on appropriate education, training, and experience.” In general that is still true, however, defining scope of practice for any given specialty is widely variable. Like nearly everything else in healthcare today, the sands are shifting under scope of practice and it’s becoming a hotbed of debate.