Emerging RN Leader
MARCH 5, 2023
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN What has been interesting in my leadership development work is examining the trends that emerge over time. We are almost at the end of the first quarter of 2023, and here is what leaders are telling me now: Nursing turnover is about at the same rate as […] The post What’s Trending Now appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
The Nursing Site
MARCH 30, 2023
By Brent Tucker, Founder and Owner — First Responder’s Coffee Company Brent Tucker When I retired from the service as a Green Beret and Delta Force Operator, friends called on me to help them train SWAT teams all over the country. Through them, I started to get involved in training law enforcement as well. It was through these training sessions that I experienced firsthand the impact that underfunded programs have on our society, especially when it comes to first responders.
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Daily Nurse
MARCH 17, 2023
AACN joins hospitals and healthcare organizations in recognizing certified nurses for their professionalism, leadership, and commitment to excellence in the care of patients and families as part of Certified Nurses Day , Sunday, March 19. As healthcare becomes increasingly complex and challenging, nursing certification has become an essential mark of excellence.
Health Leaders | Nursing
MARCH 17, 2023
Beehive State becomes the 27th state to adopt Full Practice Authority. Utah lawmakers' adoption of Full Practice Authority (FPA) eliminates hurdles for the Beehive State’s nurse practitioners (NPs) to set up their own practices. When Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed Senate Bill 36 into law Thursday, capping a strong bipartisan effort to modernize outdated licensure laws for multiple professions, including NPs, Utah became the 27 th state in the nation, along with the District of Columbia and two U.S
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.
Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine
MARCH 17, 2023
Starting Down the Path The road to becoming part of the Hopkins School of Nursing faculty is different for all who aspire to teach the next generation of nurses. For Assistant Professor Dr. Hailey Miller PhD, RN, this road had a unique paving. Dr. Miller grew up in the town of Avon Ohio, a suburb… The post Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Hailey Miller appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.
Scrubs
MARCH 28, 2023
Student nurses need to complete at least 400 hours of clinical training before they can take the National Council Licensure Exam, but more states are allowing students to practice their skills in simulated labs instead of on real patients. A new bill in New York State would allow nursing students to substitute up to 30% of their clinical training with “high-quality simulation education.
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Amercan Journal of Nursing
MARCH 20, 2023
The National Women’s History Alliance organizes Women’s History Month each March. This year, the theme, “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” was picked to draw attention to “women in every community who have devoted their lives and talents to producing art, pursuing truth, and reflecting the human condition decade after decade.” To this end, the organization has been highlighting such literary notables as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Gloria Steinem, and Willa Cather, among others.
American Nurse
MARCH 28, 2023
In studying any specific culture, common phrases always arise from stories. For example, even though there is no water, when nurses are totally overwhelmed, they frequently say, “I’m drowning” because this metaphor comes the closest to how they feel in that moment. This phrase is not written down or taught anywhere in school. It is picked up and carried throughout the profession on the waves of culture.
Health Leaders | Nursing
MARCH 16, 2023
NPs again take No. 1 spot in U.S. News & World Report job ranking. Nurse practitioners (NPs) have once again garnered a top spot on a U.S. News & World Report job ranking, coming in first on its 2023 Best Jobs That Help People list. The annual rankings noted that these jobs "enhance people's well-being and help them accomplish their personal goals, big or small.
Minority Nurse
MARCH 28, 2023
Diabetes Alert Day was introduced in 1988 and for decades has helped raise awareness about diabetes this significant medical condition. During her early years as a nurse, Kim Ellis MSN, FNP-C, CDCES and founder of Ellis Diabetes Education & Consulting, LLC , discovered there was a big need for diabetes information in the communities she served, so she focused her specialty in helping folks with the condition and sharing education.
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
Scrubs
MARCH 9, 2023
Angel McCullough is the director of nursing at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, but she recently got a new assignment. Every Tuesday, she visits around a dozen elementary schools in the city to give a lesson on nursing and basic human medicine. It’s part of a new program called the “Mini Nurse Academy,” which is designed to get young students interested in nursing.
The Relentless School Nurse
MARCH 5, 2023
The blog post is in support of nurse DonQuenick Joppy, whose career and personal life have been upended by an injustice that could happen to any nurse, but especially, to nurses of color. In this era of restorative justice, calling out racism in nursing is not exempt. It is a hard truth, that the history of nursing is filled with injustices to nurses of color.
Daily Nurse
MARCH 13, 2023
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a nurse in physical rehabilitation ? Here are the basics that you need to know. Adam Francis, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital – Bartram Campus , took time to answer our questions. Adam Francis, MSN, RN, is the Director of Nursing at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital – Bartram Campus.
Advances in Nursing Science
MARCH 2, 2023
ANS is currently featuring the article titled “Gender Minority Persons’ Perceptions of Peer-Led Support Groups: A Roy Adaptation Model Interpretation” Ralph Klotzbaugh, PhD, FNP-BC and Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, ScD (hon), RN, FAAN, ANEF. The article is available for free download while it is featured, and we welcome your comments here! Drs.
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
MARCH 5, 2023
A shared leadership/professional governance mindset is key to a successful practice redesign, CNE says. Care models had not wavered much since hospitals became medicalized in the early 20 th century, and particularly since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were created in 1965, says Jason Gilbert, PhD MBA RN NEA-BC , executive vice president and chief nurse executive, Indiana University Health.
Becker's Hospital Review
MARCH 22, 2023
The dust is settling on the national nursing degree scheme, but many questions still linger, with the most pressing being: Who are these nurses, and where are they practicing? As investigations continue and disciplinary actions are taken, another intriguing question has emerged: How were so many nurses able to pass the National Council Licensure Examination?
Scrubs
MARCH 30, 2023
Some one million nurses with active RN licenses are not working due to unsafe working conditions, according to National Nurses United, the largest nursing union in the country. Nurses have been organizing to get federal lawmakers to pass a bill that would set minimum nurse-patient ratios for every department in every hospital in the country. The bill, known as The Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act, was authored by Sen.
The Relentless School Nurse
MARCH 31, 2023
Donna Mazyck, MS, RN, LCPC, NCSN, NCC, CAE, FNASN is retiring as Executive Director of NASN after her dedicated service to our national organization for the past twelve years. On the eve (the end of April) of her well deserved retirement, she was called to Capitol Hill to face the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The committee held a hearing to “examine the consequences of COVID-19 school closures on student development and the role federal health agencies and
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.
Daily Nurse
MARCH 16, 2023
Nursing is multigenerational, with four generations in the workforce at any given time. Each generation has gifts and contributions to offer. No matter how inexperienced the younger generation may appear to those who are more seasoned, those novices will someday be the de facto leaders of the profession. So in challenging and fraught times, it’s always to our advantage to embrace and honor what every generation of nurses brings.
American Nurse
MARCH 5, 2023
Nurses ranked most honest and ethical professionals for 21st year The American Nurses Association (ANA) congratulates nurses for maintaining the number 1 ranking in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll. The American public rated nurses the highest among a host of professionals including medical doctors, pharmacists, and high school teachers.
Health Leaders | Nursing
MARCH 1, 2023
When 100% of the nursing faculty at one upstate New York reported incivility as a major departmental issue, they reversed course. Incivility among nurse educators—bullying, disrespect, harassment—is growing and affects new nurses’ view of nursing as a profession, according to a new study published in NursingCenter. Workplace incivility among faculty and students in nursing education has been known to have “detrimental effects on health and well-being, disrupt teaching and learning, and negativel
Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine
MARCH 10, 2023
Often, the duties, responsibilities, and scope of practice between a Nurse Practitioner and a Physician Assistant are misunderstood. Both roles are different from the other but equally important and needed on health care teams as they provide patient care. To become a Nurse Practitioner, students would want to have earned either a BSN or MSN… The post A Neutral Prospective: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Role appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.
Scrubs
MARCH 7, 2023
Shariya Small wasn’t ready to be a single mom when she gave birth to triplets earlier this year. The 14-year-old resented having to wake up at all hours of the night to change diapers and feed her babies. It was all a little too much for a teenager to handle. All three of her children were born prematurely at 26 weeks, which only complicated the situation.
NIOSH Science Blog
MARCH 15, 2023
Employers can play a vital role in suicide prevention. Historically, suicide, mental health, and well-being have been underrepresented in workplace health and safety efforts, but this is changing. In some European countries, there are workplace standards for workplace psychosocial hazards that put workers at risk for suicide. Additionally, in France, employers have been made accountable for toxic workplaces and management practices that contributed to worker suicides.[1] Some of the latest workp
Daily Nurse
MARCH 2, 2023
Your nursing career is like your body. It needs to be fed, watered, exercised, and well-rested to function optimally. What kinds of nutrition does your career need? What nutritional deficits does your nursing career demonstrate? Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body?
American Nurse
MARCH 1, 2023
Has the future of part-time work shifted? The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically changed the healthcare workplace. Stress, burnout, and lack of work–life balance and flexible work hours contributed to the mass exodus of nurses from their jobs. On-demand, per diem staffing models and travel nursing boomed, and the growing gig economy spurred another flexible staffing approach: gig nursing.
Healthy Workforce Institute
MARCH 15, 2023
Workplace violence is on the rise. Globally, every hour, two nurses are assaulted by a patient at work. And that number is based on the reported incidents. As we already know, workplace violence is highly underreported. Therefore, healthcare organizations have an ethical responsibility to their employees to keep them as safe as they can by making sure they are warned early of potential violence.
Consult QD
MARCH 7, 2023
Vascular inflammation is a stronger predictor of residual cardiovascular risk than LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) level among statin-treated patients with atherosclerotic risk, according to a pooled analysis of three contemporary randomized controlled cardiovascular outcome trials comprising over 31,000 patients. “These data tell us that if we want to further reduce risk of cardiovascular events in patients on statin therapy, we need to target inflammation,” says Steven Nissen, MD , senior author of th
The Gypsy Nurse
MARCH 28, 2023
Medely provided this article. Once you have a travel nurse assignment lined up, you can focus on the next big decision: figuring out where you’re going to live. As part of a compensation package, travel nurses may be able to stay in company housing or receive a housing stipend. Many travel nurses and allied professionals prefer the flexibility, comfort, and savings of finding accommodations on their own.
The Relentless School Nurse
MARCH 27, 2023
Nicole Hester/The Tennessean This little girl is clearly traumatized. This photo, taken by Nicole Hester of The Tennessean, captured this student’s response as she was being driven away from the scene of another horrific school shooting. She was being taken to the reunification center. Don’t look away from her pain, this is the face of trauma.
Daily Nurse
MARCH 3, 2023
The South College Asheville Physician Assistant program officially launched with the first class of 84 students pursuing a Master of Health Science in Physician Assistant Studies. “We have eagerly anticipated welcoming the first group of students in the Physician Assistant program in Asheville,” says South College Chancellor Steve South.
American Nurse
MARCH 27, 2023
In these waning days of the pandemic, one of the hottest discussions is whether office workers should physically go back to the office and end the work-from-home alternative. Great arguments are offered from both sides of the divide. Those who favor remote work love the flexibility and convenience. Companies who want their staff back in the office cite productivity as the main impetus—they believe working from home is less productive than in the office.
Scrubs
MARCH 25, 2023
Christy Fliss isn’t used to seeing much daylight as the charge nurse on the night shift at Sanford Health Sylvan Court in Canby, Minnesota where she’s worked for nearly nine years. Her colleagues know and love her for her attention to detail and stabilizing presence in the ICU, so they decided to surprise her with the DAISY Award to show her how much they appreciate having her around.
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