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The DAISY Team Award As A Way to Honor Teamwork

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nursing is a team sport, but it might not seem that way in today’s environment. Many team members are exhausted, burned out, and focused on their personal needs. As one manager recently observed – it’s me, me, and more me. When I raise the question about how whatever […] The post The DAISY Team Award As A Way to Honor Teamwork appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Understanding Participating and Non-participating provider status for NPs

Nurse Practitioners in Business

On the surface, it sounds like having non-participating provider status with Medicare is a good thing. But for NPs, is it really? Medicare requires NPs enrolled with Medicare as a provider to accept assignment. That the rule had always taught me that NPs could not opt for “non-participating” provider status. Recently though, I’ve heard from several who are enrolled with a “non-participating” status.

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The Art of Delegation in Nursing

The Nursing Site

Have you learned the art of delegation in nursing? Or are you quickly burning out and constantly staying late to chart and complete tasks because you feel it’s faster and easier if you do it all yourself? Delegation is an art and a science. You need to understand how and when to do it, but sometimes it’s essential and you need to practice before it gets that desperate.

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Wound care: Five evidence-based practices

American Nurse

The best practices for the best outcomes Takeaways: Managing co-morbidities is key to wound care management. Clinical evidence does not support sterile over clean technique in wound care. Nursing judgement supersedes pressure injury assessment tools. Nurses, physical therapists, physicians, and surgeons perform wound care in almost every care setting; however, evidence-based practices continue to elude many healthcare providers.

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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 Truth About Trying To Make Staff Happy

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN A nurse manager described herself as a pretzel – I keep doing whatever I can to make staff happy. It only lasts a short time, and then we return to where we were. What am I doing wrong? This question often comes up during leadership development sessions. Many nurses […] The post The Truth About Trying To Make Staff Happy appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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10 Black Healthcare Leaders Making a Difference in 2023

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Black Americans continue to suffer from health inequalities that can reduce their quality of life. They face higher rates of illness and death due to conditions that can be prevented through regular screenings and checkups compared to White people. Black people are also more likely to experience discrimination or face barriers when accessing healthcare services.

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Your Nursing Career and the Nuclear Option

Daily Nurse

If you’ve reached the point in your nursing career where you feel like you can’t go on and might need to abandon nursing and never look back, you’re considering “the nuclear option,” which means leaving the profession for good. While this is always a possible course of action, it’s not the only one.

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National Prostate Cancer Trial Testing Therapy Based on Cleveland Clinic Molecular Discovery

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A new prostate cancer therapy in clinical trials could treat patients resistant to treatment through targeting the disease on a molecular level, based on Cleveland Clinic research. Prostate cancer affects one out of every nine men. Most patients respond to chemical or surgical castration, which stops the body from producing the androgens that feed tumors.

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When Studying Mental Illness in Nurses Means Studying Yourself

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Carrying the burden of depression as a nurse. As I read Anna’s (not her real name) description of how much effort it took to drag herself into work, how much she felt like a burden to her family, and her fear of being “found out,” tears welled up. “I know,” I said to myself. I was analyzing an interview transcript for a qualitative study of psychiatric-mental health nurses (PMHNs) who have experienced mental illness.

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Nurses Share Their Worst Nurse-Patient Ratios

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The number of patients assigned to each nurse varies from hospital to hospital, but nurses say they are being asked to care for more patients than they can handle. If the nurse-patient ratio is too high, nurses might not have time to do everything that’s required of them in a day. They may end up working overtime or forgo breaks just to get it all done, which can lead to burnout and higher turnover rates that leave the remaining nurses short staffed.

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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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Americans Trust Nurses More Than Any Profession

Daily Nurse

According to the annual Gallup poll, Americans trust nurses more than any other profession for the twenty-second consecutive year. Nurses are viewed as having “very high” or “high” ethical and honesty standards by 79% of U.S.

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Vital actions

American Nurse

Diversity, inclusion pave the way to a healthier nation Just over 2 years ago, the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing (the Commission) started its consequential efforts to define and detail racism in nursing. This landmark body, co-led by the American Nurses Association (ANA), National Black Nurses Association, National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse… This content is for Digital Access and Print Plus subscribers only.

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The Fatal Five in IDD: Dehydration Signs and Risk Factors

Relias

Originally known as the Fatal Four (which included aspiration, dehydration, constipation, and seizures), experts in the field of IDD care have identified sepsis as another serious condition for this population. For this reason, the nomenclature has changed to the Fatal Five. As a member of the Fatal Five conditions, dehydration can affect those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) more than others.

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Service Dog Stays with His Owner in the Hospital in Adorable Video

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Some dogs answer to a higher calling in life, and Brian Benson’s beloved service dog named Magnus, a six-year-old Labrador, is no exception. Benson recently spent several days in the hospital after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy. He was having trouble breathing and experienced pain in his chest. The doctors ran several tests and eventually diagnosed him with a rare heart disease that makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood.

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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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ANA President Addresses Well-Being, Workforce Challenges

Daily Nurse

Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, the newly anointed president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), comes to her position at a time when nursing faces more challenges than perhaps at any other moment in recent memory.

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Lack of Racially Diverse NPs in Neonatal ICUs Creates 'Glaring Health Disparities'

Health Leaders | Nursing

Neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) training programs don't include enough underrepresented groups, affecting care of the tiniest patients, study says. Racially diverse nurse practitioners offer valuable perspective in caring for underrepresented patients, yet "glaring health disparities" exist in neonatal ICUs because neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) training programs lack racial minorities, a recent survey says.

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Nursing Profession Tops Gallup Poll

Minority Nurse

Once again, the nursing profession tops career lists that use metrics as varied as trustworthiness, salary potential, and job growth to come out with high marks. Continuing its long-running streak, nursing ranked at the top of the most trusted professions for the 21st straight year in a recent annual Gallup poll. According to Gallup, those in the healthcare industry garnered the top spots overall, but the nursing profession beat out all other professions on the list with 79 percent of respondent

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22 Nurses Asked to Surrender Their Licenses in Georgia

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The nurses who received fraudulent degrees from now-closed accredited nursing schools in Southern Florida are waking up to a brutal reality. The scheme involved the selling of 7,600 fake nursing degrees to individuals looking to become licensed nurses even though they had never been to nursing school. Now federal officials are asking anyone who used these fake diplomas to obtain nursing licenses under false pretenses to give their licenses back.

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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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Five Nurses Ready to Get to Work at the NC General Assembly

Daily Nurse

Healthcare is likely to be one of the most significant issues facing legislators as they return to Jones Street for the 2023 long session, and a record number of nurses who are members of the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) will be helping guide important healthcare policy decisions as members of the North Carolina General […]

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7 Simple Steps to Start Your Travel Nursing Journey

The Gypsy Nurse

Becoming a travel nurse is an exciting and rewarding career path for registered nurses. As a travel nurse, you’ll be able to experience new places and cultures while providing medical care to those in need. Travel nursing also offers excellent financial benefits and the opportunity to gain valuable experience in different medical settings. They have the opportunity to work in diverse settings, gain valuable experience, and make an impact on the lives of those they serve.

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The Fatal Five in IDD: Aspiration’s Dangers and Key Interventions

Relias

Originally known as the Fatal Four (which included aspiration, dehydration, constipation, and seizures), experts in the field of IDD care have identified sepsis as another serious condition for this population. For this reason, the nomenclature has changed to the Fatal Five. For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), aspiration and the other members of the Fatal Five conditions pose a serious threat to their quality of life and, in some cases, can be deadly.

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Artificial Womb Promises Designer Babies and Fewer Complications

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A group of scientists in Berlin, Germany say they are close to developing the world’s first artificial womb facility that grows babies outside of the human body. Parents would be able to watch their baby develop on a remote app and choose their child’s physical characteristics from a menu. The project, known as EctoLife, would be able to create 30,000 babies a year using a ground-breaking approach developed by researcher Hashem Al-Ghaili.

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Nurse of the Week: Kayla Billington Provides Heart Surgeries for Ugandan Children

Daily Nurse

Kayla Billington has made it her mission to help provide life-saving heart surgeries for children in Uganda. We honor Billington as the Nurse of the Week for providing heart surgeries and hope to children in Uganda. Billington knew she wanted to become a pediatric nurse after surviving a rare form of cancer as a teenager.

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The importance of Employee Communication in the Workplace

Celayix

70% of company mistakes are due to poor communication. Gartner Research Effective employee communication in the workplace is an integral part to the success of any organization. It is what drives productivity, relationships and engagement and also mitigates conflict. During the pandemic, we saw the adoption of remote working from companies all over the world.

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The Fatal Five in IDD: What You Need to Know About Seizures

Relias

Originally known as the Fatal Four (which included aspiration, dehydration, constipation, and seizures), experts in the field of IDD care have identified sepsis as another serious condition for this population. For this reason, the nomenclature has changed to the Fatal Five. How can you help your clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) who also experience seizures?

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Can Virtual Nursing Can Solve the Staffing Crisis?

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Nurses are sick and tired of being sick and tired. High workloads, staff shortages, and severe burnout are only getting worse for millions of providers across the U.S. But Providence Health & Services believes it might have the solution. Virtual nursing has been gaining momentum in the industry as a way of redistributing the nurse workload while increasing the number of providers.

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Valentines and kindness

American Nurse

The power of positivity through compassion and smiles February brings us Valentine’s Day. It’s a day that always makes me smile. I have so many positive memories about celebrating “happy hearts day” through the years. What is your favorite Valentine’s Day memory? Or what is your favorite moment at work this week? Imagine asking each of your patients, colleagues, or students, “What was your favorite moment during this office visit, this hospital stay, this event?

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The Exec: How to Keep Seasoned Nurses From Leaving

Health Leaders | Nursing

Flexibility and innovative practice models can enhance retention of nurses reaching retirement age. Most nurses aged 55 and older have such passion for their work that providing schedule flexibility and different practice models to focus on their strengths could go a long way in keeping them in the workforce, a new study says. Worsening patient acuity, competing roles, and the centrality of computers are workplace stressors, according to nurses aged 55+, who participated in A Focus Group Study o

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The Fatal Five in IDD: How Constipation Impacts Health

Relias

Originally known as the Fatal Four (which included aspiration, dehydration, constipation, and seizures), experts in the field of IDD care have identified sepsis as another serious condition for this population. For this reason, the nomenclature has changed to the Fatal Five. How can you help your clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) combat constipation and the other Fatal Five conditions to achieve a better quality of life?

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Girl Has Leg Amputated After Hospital Ignored Her Cries for 10 Hours

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Stephanie Sedillo is suing Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico after her daughter’s leg had to be amputated because the staff allegedly ignored her cries for 10 hours. Sedillo said her daughter Meiah Tafoya fell and hurt her leg while playing at school. “I got a call from the school, saying there was an incident, and rescue was on the way, and that’s all they told me, so I rushed to the school,” Sedillo explained.

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Taking Time Off Between Travel Assignments

The Gypsy Nurse

Uniti Med provided this article. One of the main reasons healthcare professionals decide to start a travel career is just that – to travel. A travel career gives you the opportunity to work anywhere, including some of those bucket-list locations you’ve always wanted to visit. For 13 weeks, you can immerse yourself in the culture of any area of the country and make more money while doing it!

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Exclusive survey reveals ‘worryingly high’ levels of long Covid among nurses

Nursing Times

The post Exclusive survey reveals ‘worryingly high’ levels of long Covid among nurses appeared first on Nursing Times.

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Reduce unnecessary transfers from clinics to EDs

American Nurse

A quality improvement project aims to provide appropriate and timely care. Takeaways: When ambulatory care services can’t meet patient needs, they frequently transfer patients to the emergency department. Many of these patients receive minimal intervention before being discharged to home or leave before they’re seen because of long wait times. A quality improvement project team proposed creating an advance practice provider ambulatory intermediate care clinic within ambulatory services to addres