June, 2021

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Interview Tips for New Healthcare Providers

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

Even with a fancy degree like MD, PA, NP, RN, or DO, and despite a lot of evidence that shows the world you’re a competent, learned, responsible person, interviewing for a potential job can still be anxiety-provoking. It can be paralyzing. In one of my interviews for residency, my larynx went on a coffee break. The interviewer was the department chairperson – Dr.

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Carbon negative by 2030 – Three ways we’re taking action now

Providence

June 10, 2021 At Providence, we believe a healthier planet fosters healthier individuals. That’s why we remain vigilant in pursuit of our promise to become carbon negative by 2030.

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Do Women’s Only RN to BSN Programs Exist?

Registered Nursing

Nursing and women’s-only colleges have a long, shared history. Up until the beginning of the 19th century, women generally were not permitted to enroll in established colleges. As such, women’s-only colleges began sprouting up as institutions where women could earn a degree and begin a career. It was common for nursing schools to be named “Women’s Nursing School” because men and women attending college together were almost unheard of.

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BoardVitals Launches Full-Length Practice Board Exams 

Board Vitals - Nursing

Being ready for your board exam is now easier than ever with the new full-length practice exams from BoardVitals. Full-length practice board exams are now available as an add-on with BoardVitals subscriptions on select question banks for a simulated test day experience. With practice exams, users will experience a full-length test in advance of their boards to allow users to ease test anxiety prior to test day.

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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 Feeding Ministry

Nurse Focus

First of all, I would like to thank the American Nurses Foundation and Johnson & Johnson for extending your help. This is the first time that I’ve ever received help from any organization and I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am.

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Setting up a Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) shared-governance council in an acute hospital trust

Nursing Times

This article provides a guide to setting up a Black, Asian and minority ethnic shared-governance council and outlines the benefits for patients and staff The post Setting up a Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) shared-governance council in an acute hospital trust appeared first on Nursing Times.

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Five reasons to join the Providence Home and Community Care team

Providence

June 22, 2021 Under the umbrella of Home and Community Care (HCC), Providence offers assisted living, home health, hospice care, infusion pharmacy, PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), palliative care, private-duty nursing and skilled nursing. Here are five reasons caregivers find working at Providence Home and Community Care rewarding.

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How Hospitals Are Celebrating Pride Month

Diversity Nursing

LGBTQ+ Pride month is celebrated every June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall riots, and works to achieve equal justice and equal opportunity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Americans. Pride month celebrations include parades, parties, concerts, educational events and speeches. Memorials are also held to honor members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS.

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How Much CE Allowance Should Nurse Practitioners Expect?

Board Vitals - Nursing

A continuing education (CE) allowance should not be a reason to take or not take a new nurse practitioner (NP) position, but it is definitely a job perk to explore and consider. Employers vary widely when providing a CE allowance in the amount and the stipulations of how the money can be used for nurse practitioners, physicians assistants (PA), and physicians.

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Reasons to Hire a Nurse with High Standards

Nurse Focus

Her name was Dee. I watched her in awe. She was tall, nearly six feet in her stockings. A lanky frame and a no-nonsense ponytail complemented her down-to-earth manner and gentle demeanor.

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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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3 Things to Do When Looking for a Nurse Mentor

Gebauer Company

Working as a nurse is one of the most rewarding yet demanding and often overwhelming career paths in the professional world. In many cases, nurses rely on peers and external support systems for encouragement and advice — but some questions and challenges require more experienced insight. And that’s where a nurse mentor can be most beneficial.

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Dear Beautiful Black nurse - Keep your head up - Tomorrow is another day

Equality 4 Black Nurses

This has been the hardest time ever. I feel that my head is going to explode. My feet are walking, not with a pace of haste but with a foot drag because what is the point? It is like going through the doors of no return. My hands are moving but just enough to make sure I can pay my bills. I can manage only at the thought of getting another pay slip.

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How to Handle a Poor Performance Review

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

123RF.com/pixelliebe Ah, the dreaded performance review. Even if you love your job and feel like you’re rocking it every day, you know there will be SOMETHING negative there. I mean, they HAVE to add something for you to improve upon, right? But, what if your performance review turns out to be really, REALLY bad? Should you cry? Argue? Demand that it be changed?

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10 Pieces of Advice For New Nurses

Diversity Nursing

1. Set your phone or digital watch to military time. In healthcare , the 24-hour clock is generally used in documentation of care as it prevents any ambiguity as to when events occurred in a patient's medical history. 2. Get to know your team. Don't hesitate breaking the ice, introduce yourself, others are probably wondering who this new person is! Once you get to know everyone, try keeping a close group of people you can rely on and talk to when need be.

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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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NCLEX-RN® Question Banks: Kaplan vs. UWorld vs. BoardVitals

Board Vitals - Nursing

If you’re preparing to take the NCLEX-RN® exam , you might be overwhelmed by all of your options for preparing for it. We’re here to help. We’ve stacked Kaplan, UWorld and BoardVitals’ NCLEX-RN® question banks alongside each other to help you make the right choice for your review. The Exam The NCLEX-RN® exam lasts for five-hours, and consists of multiple choice questions including: select all that apply, graphic, hot spot, drag and drop ordered response, fill in the blank, audio, a

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Be Kind to Each Other

Nurse Focus

I’ve been a hospice nurse for six years. While death and dying is my specialty, I can’t begin to tell you how even more heartbreaking and difficult my job has been during the pandemic.

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Best Cities to Live in for Nursing: The North East

NexNurse

Nurses are needed nationwide. But some cities are better to live in than others when it comes to working as a nurse for various reasons. Here is a look at five cities in the northeast to live in as a nurse. Boston, Massachusetts Boston is one of the top cities for nurses to live in thanks to all the well-known hospitals located there. The hourly salary for a nurse ranges from $28 to $56 on average.

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Male Nurses: Pros & Cons of Being A Male Nurse

Travel Nursing Central

Like any other healthcare position, being a male travel nurse definitely has its pros and cons! Today, you’re going to get an honest, upfront perspective on what the pros and cons of being a male nurse are. You’ll hear about the good parts, and the bad parts, too. So, if you’re thinking about becoming a male nurse, you can now make an informed decision whether or not this is the job for you.

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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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How to Become a Certified Health Care Case Manager

The Chicago School

Health care case managers plan and coordinate the treatment of patients. Learn how to become a certified case manager here. The post How to Become a Certified Health Care Case Manager appeared first on Insight Digital Magazine.

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Frontier Nursing University Awarded HRSA Grants Totaling $4,140,000

Diversity Nursing

Versailles, Ky. – The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded Frontier Nursing University (FNU) two grants totaling $4,140,000. The HRSA Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training grant totals $1,920,000 and the Nursing Workforce Diversity grant totals $2,220,000. HRSA, which is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will award the funding for both grants in annual installments over the next four years.

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Nurses Make Care Happen

ER Nurses

As the slow incremental reforms in the American healthcare system amble forward, within the change lies great opportunity. In seeking to avert the collision course of an aging chronically ill population with a financial burden to maintain the current system, policy makers have had to reflect and discover a hitherto unrealized fact: nurses are the backbone of the health care system.

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Going from Caretaker to Being Taken Care of… One Nurse’s Story

Nurse Focus

As a nurse, I used to believe that there was no worse feeling than watching one of my patients struggle. This year, I learned that there was — there is nothing worse than feeling helpless to help a patient. COVID-19 is simply awful.

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Challenges for hospital management in supporting nurses to deliver humanized care

Nursing Inquiry

Abstract Hospitals are paying increasing attention to the delivery of humanized care. The purpose of this study was to explore from the nursing perspective what hospital managers might do to facilitate this. A secondary analysis from a primary ethnographic study regarding dignity in nursing practice was conducted. Twenty interviews of internal medicine nurses from four hospitals were analyzed, and three main themes were identified: Management of nursing teams, Management of ethical values, and M

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A critical mass of transformational leaders

Nursing Management

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Protecting Myself to Serve My Patients

Nurse Focus

I’ve always loved my profession. As nurses, we are often the go-to support team for people in the most need. We become part of our patients’ families, playing the most crucial role of advocate for our patients and their needs.

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One of the First, One of the Last

Nurse Focus

I was one the firsts. Working as a nurse in Las Vegas, Nevada, I contracted COVID-19 during March 2020. I am also a long-hauler. In fact, I’ve never gotten to care for a COVID-19 patient because I haven’t been able to return to work.

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Hospitals Seeing Increase In Children and Teen Suicide Attempts

Diversity Nursing

Hospitals are seeing more cases of severe depression and suicidal thoughts among children, particularly attempts to overdose. The coronavirus pandemic has drastically changed the way children and teens learn, play and socialize. Many studies found forced isolation and loneliness among children correlated with an increased risk of depression. Children’s Hospital Colorado, declared a "State of Emergency" in youth mental health.

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A Nurse’s Perspective – My Personal Battle with COVID-19

Nurse Focus

As a home health nurse, I am only as protected as my patients are honest. Although we have protocols in place prior to patient visits, you can never be too careful.

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How to increase nurse recruitment and retention

Nurse Focus

Nurses seek organizations that promote their autonomy, respect their expertise, and include their voices in decision-making and innovative efforts.