Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Today’s Blog is a guest blog from Nelson Marquez, RN. Nelson Marquez is a dedicated nurse with eight years of experience in the field. He began his career in psychiatric nursing, developing a deep understanding of care in mental health. Drawn to the intensity of the operating room, Nelson transitioned to become an O.R. nurse, playing […] The post How Nurses View Their Work Today: 10 Key Factors Nurse Managers Need to Know appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nurse practitioners have been valuable members of the healthcare ecosystem for decades. As providers with increasing practice autonomy, NPs fill significant healthcare delivery gaps. With a growing shortage of primary care physicians , the need for NPs could not be more dire. When NPs approach patient care innovatively, everyone benefits from their creativity.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Burnout impacts approximately 38% of nurses each year. Burnout isn’t a small issue, either. It can lead to a lack of empathy, a sense of dread as they head into work, and extra stress that could impact their physical and mental well-being. Countless factors contribute to nurse burnout, from a busy schedule to difficult patients and demanding daily tasks.

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Embezzlement is real and it happens in health care practices. Let’s explore embezzlement and employee theft in practices. One of the few things we want to face in our business is that employees will steal from the practice. Why would someone do that when we are all there to provide a service to the community? Who would do that to us? As it turns out, this is no small problem.

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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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Donna Cardillo

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Please acknowledge the 'family' caregivers. Look them in the eye, greet them, address them by name when possible, solicit their input, and ask them how they are coping at an appropriate time. The post Acknowledging Family Caregivers first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN.

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The Nursing Site

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s that wonderful time of the year, and we’re here to make it even more special for our incredible community of nurses and healthcare professionals. Sheec Socks is spreading some holiday cheer with an exclusive Nursing Holiday Giveaway that you won’t want to miss! Why ComFits? Let’s talk comfort – and we mean serious, all-day comfort.

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Equality 4 Black Nurses

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Unmasking Injustice ,*TRIGGER WARNING* In July 2022, Icilda, a resilient 70-year-old nurse, fulfilled her lifelong dream of owning a care home, only to find herself trapped in a nightmarish ordeal just a year later. But this is not just any story; it's a disheartening narrative woven with the threads of racial injustice, where the insidious actions of disgruntled white staff shattered the dreams of a highly esteemed Black Nurse.

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Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While automation holds the lucrative promise for many fields of removing mundane tasks from workloads, some nurse leaders are hopeful — but questioning — if emerging technology will do the same in their field.

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Everyone, including healthcare workers are targets for fraudsters. Learn tactics scammers use and gain the knowledge to protect yourself, your license, and your practice. Scams and fraud are on the rise, and healthcare has been identified by the FBI as targets. In this episode, I’m talking about how you, as an individual in healthcare may be targeted by scammers to release your own personal information or to inadvertently give someone access to protected healthcare information.

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Donna Cardillo

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Jan came from a highly dysfunctional family. One day at age 14, after a physical altercation with her drug-addicted mother and years of abuse and neglect, she decided to take her own life by swallowing downers she had accumulated from her mother’s stash and a bottle of gin. She was found unconscious in the girls’ … Jan’s Story Read More » The post Jan’s Story first appeared on Donna Cardillo, RN.

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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

Penn Medicine News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While scrolling through social media, Air Force veteran Morgan Slaughter saw a post about another veteran in need. What followed was a selfless act that saved the life of a stranger.

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Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Charlie Munger is Warren Buffett’s lifelong friend and professional colleague. He is well known for his practical advice and life wisdom. Charlie has been quoted as saying the following: “The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. If you have unrealistic expectations, you will be […] The post Managing Staff Expectations appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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NIOSH Science Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Despite legislation and improved technology, data from Massachusetts hospitals show that sharps injuries have increased in the operating room (OR) [1]. These injuries place healthcare workers at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens (BBPs). There is an urgent need to renew efforts to protect healthcare workers inside the operating room. The Massachusetts data highlight a gap and the need to establish a national surveillance program that would help hospitals develop further measures to prevent

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Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Jillene Joseph, Executive Director of the Native Wellness Institute, facilitated a two-part comprehensive training, “How to be an Ally to Indigenous People in Academia,” which outlined critical steps students, staff and academics can take to be stronger allies in the realm of academics, and decolonize the systems among us. How to Understand Allyship What does… The post Creating Inclusive Academic Spaces: The Role of Indigenous Allies appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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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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Nurse Practitioners in Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Here is the follow-up to last week’s article about the pros and cons of email vs social media marketing. If you recall, email is not better than social media (and vice versa). Both have their place in marketing and should be part of marketing your practice. Social media helps practice owners build their brand and drive traffic to the practice website, which helps build up the practice email list.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are significantly improved after septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM), but they do not necessarily correlate closely with physician-reported New York Heart Association (NYHA) class. So finds an analysis by Cleveland Clinic researchers of follow-up data from symptomatic patients in the SPIRIT-HCM study.

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Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Telemetry, step down and medical-surgical nurse turnover exceeded the national average in 2022, an NSI report found.

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Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN 2023 has been a challenging year, especially for frontline managers. Not surprisingly, we are seeing higher levels of burnout in this group. When we feel exhausted and burned out, the temptation is shut down emotionally and shut out sources of stress. This could include routine leader rounding. […] The post Why Nurse Leader Rounding Matters appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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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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Nursing Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The ShinyMind app, made for nurses by nurses, is set to launch a section which will offer menopause advice and support. Read more.

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Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Guest Susan C. Reinhard, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior Vice President and Director of the AARP Public Policy Institute and Dr. Cynda Rushton talk about how we can support nurses at a challenging moment. Nurses across the country are exhausted, discouraged and are leaving their roles or the profession in droves. We can show nurses we… The post The Resilient Nurse, Episode 8: How to Support Nurses in a Challenging Moment appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Nurse Practitioners in Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How do you find new patients for your practice? And how do you stay in touch with established patients? With email, social media, or a combination of the two? Whatever your choice, the objective of marketing your practice comes down to: letting people know about your practice and what you can do for them, how you can help them. Through your marketing, you’re attracting people interested in your services , “converting” them to become your patients, and finally establishing trust and building rela

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Recently, on LinkedIn, a heartfelt nurse colleague wrote that a nurse had posted something so painfully wrong-headed that she just had to respond. The nurse had written that nursing is not a career; it’s a calling and that any nurse who leaves the bedside is committing murder against patients. This shocking statement belies a sentiment that all too many nurses walk the earth feeling: that they must sacrifice everything for patients, even their health and peace of mind.

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Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Forty-four nurses on the psychiatry and behavioral medicine unit at Seattle Children's Hospital signed a letter requesting management's support in curbing violent incidents they say have increased over the past few weeks.

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Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN In the past, courage has not been recognized as an important attribute for nurse leaders. This is changing. In my recent conversations with current nurse leaders about what our future leaders will need, the ability to act courageously is increasingly part of the discussion. Without question, innovation […] The post Showing Courage in Leadership Roles appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For the first time, a pharmacotherapy for overweight and obesity has been shown to reduce cardiovascular events in patients with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the absence of type 2 diabetes. The finding, achieved with weekly injections of the GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide (Wegovy ® , Ozempic ® ) in the multicenter SELECT trial, establishes overweight/obesity as a modifiable risk factor for CVD, according to lead investigator A.

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Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I always wanted to be a nurse because I love to help people. Louise Three stars Smith Louise Three Stars Smith, known to most as Grandma Louise, celebrated her 100th birthday in August of 2023. She was a nurse with the Indian Health Service for 44 years and her career exemplified a life-long commitment to… The post Louise Three Stars Smith Turns 100, and Offers a Legacy of Healing for Native Nurses appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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Nursology

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Notable Works The recent attention that has emerged related to disparities in health and healthcare, along with acknowledgement of systemic racism, has been known and acknowledged in the nursing literature long before the surge that happened after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Joyce Park, an ICU nurse at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, was on her way home from a family dinner at a restaurant in Closter when a vehicle two cars ahead of hers began zigzagging across the road. Park watched as the car swerved off the right side of the road, struck a utility pole, and told her husband to stop their car so she could rush to the wrecked vehicle.

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Becker's Hospital Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

RaDonda Vaught shared new details about her criminal case and life since her conviction in a two-part podcast from "Nurses Uncorked" released Nov. 21.

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Emerging RN Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN From AONL research on the nurse manager role, we know that managing staff conflicts is one of the top five activities and least favorite ways leaders spend their time. Consider this situation a nurse manager recently raised during a seminar: My staff don’t want to navigate their […] The post Helping Staff to Navigate Their Conflicts appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A new nurse-led program at Cleveland Clinic Akron General is fighting substance abuse through early interventions and peer-to-peer counseling. Created to provide ongoing support to patients who present to the emergency department (ED) for drug or alcohol issues, Recovery’s in Reach enables a rapid, seamless transition to addiction treatment that reinforces the possibility of sobriety.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Trinity Health uses virtual care, teamwork to address workforce, clinical care issues. Trinity Health is taking a team approach in redesigning care delivery inside the hospital, using a three-person model that includes nurses, nursing assistants, and virtual care technology. Gay Landstrom, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAONL, FACHE, FAAN , chief nursing officer for the Michigan-based health system with 101 hospitals in 27 states, says the model, piloted in the summer of 2022 and is now live in roughly 40 sit

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) welcomed Stephen A. Ferrara , DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, as the organization’s new president, taking the reigns from former AANP President April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN in late-June. Ferrara is a busy man, wearing many hats. He’s an actively practicing NP in New York and a member of the senior leadership team at Columbia University’s School of Nursing, serving as the associate dean of clinical affairs and assistant profes

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