Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 23, 2023
As nursing professionals, we know that regular physical activity is one of the most important things we can do for our overall health and well-being. It helps with weight management, bone and muscle strength, and reducing the risk for chronic health issues like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, but it can also boost our brain function and has psychosocial benefits.
Amercan Journal of Nursing
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Nurses, what’s next? As a labor and delivery nurse, I am part of one of life’s biggest moments for families I may never meet again. This calling requires a positive attitude and an ability to instill hope throughout each 12-hour shift. But at a certain point, I found myself feeling exhausted and disconnected from this work, and all my effort to maintain a cheerful demeanor and engagement only exacerbated the burnout.
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Amercan Journal of Nursing
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Shedding parts of us that no longer serve us. Photo by Javardh on Unsplash A couple months ago, I shared my experience with burnout and lessons learned from it. This experience propelled me into a healing journey. This healing journey wasn’t just about a newfound appreciation for “self-care.” Guided by several mentors, coaches, and healers, it incorporated modalities such as energy healing, spiritual healing, mindset work, inner child work , meditation, breathwork , and journaling.
Amercan Journal of Nursing
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. A 2022 Nursing Home Staffing study that was convened to inform the development of these requirements followed an urgent plea from the Biden Administration and National Acade
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.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 4, 2023
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN When I ask nurse managers about the most valuable content in my programs, they inevitably tell me they come away “very happy to know that I am not alone in some of the behaviors that I am seeing.” These nurse leaders at the frontlines are observing what […] The post Ten Trends with the Nursing Workforce appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
The Nursing Site
OCTOBER 11, 2023
We often hear a lot about soft skills vs hard skills today. What’s the difference and how do they apply to the nursing profession? Both are required for nurses to provide quality care to patients. They are also very different by definition. Soft skills are basically innate personality traits such as interpersonal (people) skills and behaviors.
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The Relentless School Nurse
OCTOBER 9, 2023
A grieving father shared a letter he found when he searched through his daughter’s belongings after her death by suicide. She was a nurse. The letter is entitled – A Letter to My Abuser and it is written to the healthcare machine that betrayed her trust and belief that she would be cared for as much as she cared for others. In the world of healthcare, nurses tirelessly care for patients day in and day out.
American Nurse
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Having a dedicated nursing team assist with central-line insertions reduced infections by 47%, a three-year program at UNC Health in Chapel Hill, N.C. has shown. The team of 4.5 full-time nurses was tasked with confirming compliance with a clinical checklist, watching for and enabling infection-prevention practices, and making sure supplies were available, according to the report published today in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC).The team also did more than 100 audits of central
Nursing Times
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Read about the NMC’s appointment of Ijeoma Omambala KC to lead investigations into recent concerns raised about the regulator.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 22, 2023
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN For many months, nurse leaders have been asking me why we are not more honest with the public about what is happening in our healthcare delivery system. One emergency department nurse leader related the following story that is so similar to others that I have heard: My […] The post Getting Honest with the Public appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
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
The Nursing Site
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Every day, all shift long, nurses are using critical thinking skills in their job no matter where they work. The stronger those skills are, the higher the quality of care they provide to their patients. Even from the start of the shift and prioritizing the tasks at hand, the ability to problem-solve and make decisions on the fly are critical to each of the nurse’s assigned patients and to those s/he will interact with for other nurses throughout the shift.
Nurse Practitioners in Business
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Collaboration Issues continue to plague Nurse Practitioners. How can you avoid some of the problems, pitfalls, and issues? In this Episode of the NP Business Matters Podcast, I wanted to tackle some recurring issues I see all the time regarding NPs and collaborators. NPs often have question topics around collaboration, for example: Finding Collaborators Determining exactly what they need Occasionally, wanting to find a way to side-step a collaborator Trying to figure out what to do if they sudde
Consult QD
OCTOBER 20, 2023
A new study offers potential insights into the genetic underpinnings of post-transplant leukemic relapse in a large cohort of patients. The findings, published in Nature Communications, are the latest from the lab of Cleveland Clinic hematologist and lead author Jaroslaw Maciejewski, MD, PhD , whose groundbreaking research efforts over the past two decades continue to decode the complex molecular and genetic mechanisms of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myeloid neoplasia (MN).
Becker's Hospital Review
OCTOBER 27, 2023
MIT Sloan Management Review published a "Nursing Satisfaction Index " that shows how nurses at 200 of the largest healthcare employers in the U.S. rate employee experience.
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.
Health Leaders | Nursing
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Health systems across the country are launching telemedicine programs aimed at improving the nurse's workload, but both value and sustainability are hard to pin down. Virtual nursing is all the rage these days, with health systems across the country launching telemedicine-based programs aimed at helping their beleaguered nurses. But with no clear-cut path to ROI, executives are uncertain whether the programs can be sustainable.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 11, 2023
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Some of the most troubling conversations I have with leaders today concern a growing number of nurses who seem to lack empathy. Caring for patients in a way that projects concern and empathy has always been a core value in nursing. Leaders see an increasing number of […] The post When Nurses Lack Empathy appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
The Nursing Site
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Introduction Hospice care serves as a unique specialty of nursing by focusing on providing comfort and support to patients nearing the end of their lives. While deeply fulfilling, this field presents nurses with an array of ethical dilemmas that require thoughtful consideration and empathy. In this article, we will explore the 7 ethical dilemmas in hospice care and discuss effective strategies for managing them.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 16, 2023
New nurses can feel lost and discouraged navigating their first job out of graduate school. Real-world experience and classes can help, but nothing prepares nurses for nursing in the field, where they’ll experience mistakes and feelings of doubt and insecurity. Luckily, these feelings don’t last forever. Doubt and perfectionism can creep up on all of us, even experienced nurses.
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.
Consult QD
OCTOBER 4, 2023
By Albert Aboseif, DO; J. Daniel Bireley, MD; Yuebing Li, MD, PhD; David Polston, MD ; and Justin R. Abbatemarco, MD Note: This article is reprinted from the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine ( 2023;90[7)]:439-447 ). Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a common form of orthostatic intolerance, with a prevalence of 0.2% to 1% in developed countries. 1 While no single unifying etiologic mechanism has been determined, several have been proposed, including activation of the immune
Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Erika Estrada-Ibarra is a 1st year DNP-FNP/PhD students at the Johns Hopkins school of Nursing. Erika completed her BSN at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi, and gained hands on experience in pediatrics at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Erika’s current research focuses on pediatric obesity in Hispanic populations located in U.S./Mexico border towns.
American Nurse
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Lung cancer rates have been falling faster in men than in women, a trend that has now extended from younger women to those over 50, a new study from the American Cancer Society (ACS) has shown. The researchers looked at the rate of lung and bronchus cancers diagnosed from 2000 to 2019 and saw the rates of decline between 2000-2004 and 2015-2019 were greater in men than women.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 29, 2023
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN The student loan repayment holiday is officially over, and many nurses now add student loan repayments to their monthly bills. Nurse managers tell me that many nurses are stressed because of the amounts owed by both them and their spouses for education. Student loans are but one […] The post The Impact of Social Determinants of Work Health appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
The Nursing Site
OCTOBER 31, 2023
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Diversity Nursing
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Patient advocacy is a critical aspect of providing safe and effective patient care. Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics. Nurses are often the first and last contact for patients in the healthcare setting.
Consult QD
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic have published the world’s largest single-center experience to date on an innovative endoscopic endonasal approach to removing or sampling benign intraconal orbital tumors. The research appears in Laryngoscope. Even when benign, tumors that arise in the deepest part of the eye socket, the intraconal space, can still cause vision loss or neurologic deficit if not removed.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Nurses spend their shifts caring for patients, communicating with doctors, and much more, so a great way to show your fellow healthcare professionals how much you care is with a gift bag. So, how do you make gift bags for fellow nurses? What should you include in your bags? Here’s how to make gift bags your co-workers will love. Buy Them or Take the DIY Route?
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Nurses are integral to every community, and not just from the perspective of simply providing critical medical services. Your field experiences have likely made it clear to you that you impact patients’ lives through your empathy, social sensitivity, and hard-earned knowledge. One of the often overlooked areas in which nurses are influential is helping to address injustice, even environmental racism.
Emerging RN Leader
OCTOBER 25, 2023
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA- BCFAAN Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you will help them become what they are capable of being – Goethe Many health systems either are currently using or will be implementing team-based models of care in 2024. The transition from primary nursing […] The post Teaching Nurses How to Delegate Care appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Dr. Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH, BS has been installed as the inaugural Endowed Professor of Disability Health and Justice at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. The Endowed Professorship of Disability Health and Justice was established by The Maryland E-Novation Initiative Fund Authority, the estates of Ms. Charlotte B. Lockner (SON class of 1955) and… The post Dr.
Becker's Hospital Review
OCTOBER 18, 2023
An analysis of Glassdoor reviews from current and former nurses revealed there are four key factors most influential in shaping nurses' overall job satisfaction: compensation, workload, toxic culture and organizational support.
Consult QD
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Although it has been known for some time that immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors increase the risk of blood clots, clinicians – and many patients – may be surprised to hear how common these are. A Cleveland Clinic study demonstrated that for certain types of cancer, up to one in five patients taking immune checkpoint inhibitors are at risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), arterial blood clots, stroke or myocardial infarction.
Daily Nurse
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Being one of 240,000 are great odds if you’re playing the billion-dollar Powerball, but not when those odds are for being diagnosed with breast cancer. According to the CDC, close to 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men each year, and Courtney Shihabuddin DNP, APRN-CNP, was one of those women in 2020. Shihabuddin was diagnosed with breast cancer on February 13, 2020.
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Pediatric nurses often say the field of pediatric nursing is something that calls to them for varied reasons, but helping children and their families is a top goal. Michaela Lewis, DNP, ARNP, CPNP-AC/PC, PMHS, CPN, CPEN, CNE, CNE-cl,VA-BC, CCRN is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, College of Nursing , and says making a positive difference for the children and families she cares for is so rewarding.
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