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7 Things You Should Do the First 7 Weeks of Your New Job

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

You’ve gone through the application process, aced every interview, and finally gotten an offer for your dream job. Earning a place as a new team member is no small achievement; however, keeping that place and making a good first impression will be essential to your long-term success. As the old adage goes, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

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Nurse Mentors Improving Retention

Diversity Nursing

When it comes to recruitment and retention, creating a supportive environment is key. A great way to provide support is through mentorship programs. Studies report mentorship programs in retaining and easing the transition to practice for new graduate Nurses, re-entry Nurses, and Nurses new to a specialty area are critical in retention. Nurse mentorship is described as a synergetic relationship between a beginning Nurse (the mentee) and a Nurse with multiple years of experience (the mentor).

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Research Results About Leaders’ Ability to Address Disruptive Behaviors

Healthy Workforce Institute

While most healthcare leaders deal with disruptive behaviors in the workplace daily and understand the angst this causes them and their teams, many are unaware of the tremendous impact to patient safety, the patient experience, team performance , and the bottom line. Numerous studies show the deleterious effects disruptive behaviors in the workplace have on employee morale, turnover and a high rate of medical error and adverse patient outcomes ( The Joint Commission, (2008, 2016 ).

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

Recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter and protests over the murder of George Floyd have brought anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion to the forefront of American consciousness. For behavioral health providers, addressing racism and racial trauma in behavioral healthcare is crucial. Providers have a moral obligation to understand how incidents of racism can impact clients of color and have the competency to address this impact.

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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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Walking Meditation, Every Moment is Extraordinary!

Minding The Bedside

Walking meditation is a practice in many contemplative traditions. The object of this practice is to use the simple act of walking as an opportunity to practice moment-to-moment awareness. Meditation is moment-to-moment awareness. Meditation is about not being distracted in the moment. The post Walking Meditation, Every Moment is Extraordinary! appeared first on Minding The Bedside.

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Support and career aspirations among trainee nursing associates: a longitudinal cohort study

Nursing Times

The nursing associate role is new and it is important to understand support needs and career aspirations of trainees. This article comes with a handout for a journal club discussion The post Support and career aspirations among trainee nursing associates: a longitudinal cohort study appeared first on Nursing Times.

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Pain – believe, evidence, act, escalate!

Teresa Chinn

How many times have you heard someone say “pain is what the patient says it is”? I have heard this a lot of late, so much so that I am beginning to question it’s credibility. It was in 1968, over 50 years ago, that McCaffrey defined pain as “it’s whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever and wherever the person says it does” and whilst I agree wholeheartedly with this I wonder if it’s time to change the messaging on pain?

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A Worldwide Epidemic of Stress in Nursing!

Minding The Bedside

A Worldwide Epidemic of Stress in Nursing As an RN, I've worked in many environments that I would describe as "stressful." Why were they stressful? Because there was an abundance of stressors. People often confuse the words around stress, maybe because they're so stressed out?! Before we can learn how to handle stress [.] The post A Worldwide Epidemic of Stress in Nursing!

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Pain – believe, evidence, act, escalate!

Teresa Chinn

How many times have you heard someone say “pain is what the patient says it is”? I have heard this a lot of late, so much so that I am beginning to question it’s credibility. It was in 1968, over 50 years ago, that McCaffrey defined pain as “it’s whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever and wherever the person says it does” and whilst I agree wholeheartedly with this I wonder if it’s time to change the messaging on pain?

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