Life of a Nurse
JUNE 21, 2022
It’s been busy these past few weeks as my elder parent entered a new phase of life, dialysis at home. The transition to manage a chronic condition with medications and monitoring is now living in a home that looks more like a supply room. Boxes and boxes keep coming, my elder is also in transition–his grail is to improve the quality of his day to day life.
Daily Nurse
JUNE 22, 2022
Today, our Nurse/s of the Week column celebrates the New Jersey nurses who saved Trenton last month. (In the interest of full disclosure, the rescuee’s name is apparently “Trent,” but he was named for Trenton, New Jersey, so these nurses absolutely “saved Trenton”). The nursing profession has always attracted people who have an innate urge […].
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Minority Nurse
JUNE 22, 2022
In January 2009, the Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) staged the grand opening of the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona with Dr. Crista Johnson, MD, FACOG as the founding medical director. It is believed to be the only such clinic in the U.S. specializing in obstetrics and gynecology for refugee women from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
The Nurse Break
JUNE 22, 2022
More from Nursed at the Seams here. It’s that time of year again…. Completing a tax return for a nurse can be confusing, especially if you want to maximise your return and not miss out on any deductions. But before we get into the nuts and bolts, I need to put in a boring disclaimer and be very clear that I am not an accountant (I know, shocking right?
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.
Diversity Nursing
JUNE 20, 2022
What is a Nurse Residency Program? Nurse residency programs are individualized programs set up by hospitals to help new graduate Nurses transition into clinical practice. Nurse residency programs are generally available to new graduate Nurses or Nurses with less than 1 year of Nursing experience. They are designed to provide Nursing residents with the knowledge and skills to provide quality and comprehensive patient care.
Daily Nurse
JUNE 23, 2022
A majority of American men who die by suicide don’t have any known history of mental health problems, according to new research by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan and colleagues. “What’s striking about our study is the conspicuous absence of standard psychiatric markers of suicidality among a large number of males of all ages who die by suicide,” said […].
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Nurse.com
JUNE 22, 2022
A Virginia jury recently found former nurse RaDonda Vaught guilty of negligent homicide for mistakenly injecting a 75-year-old woman with the wrong medication and causing her death, along with a second charge of gross neglect of an impaired adult. The verdict has already prompted a call to decriminalize medication errors by many in the healthcare industry.
Diversity Nursing
JUNE 24, 2022
Even before the pandemic, Nurses have suffered the effects of workplace stress and burnout. The Nursing shortage is a key factor when it comes to burnout. The lack of staff d emands Nurses to care for more patients, which results in Nurses being overtired, overwhelmed, and overall highly stressed. Hospitals are turning to robot technology to help ease the strain on healthcare workers.
Daily Nurse
JUNE 20, 2022
Once again, DailyNurse is publishing a series of blog posts on nursing issues in the developing world by MScN nursing students at the Karachi, Pakistan campus of the Aga Khan School of Nursing and Midwifery. These articles were written as part of a class assignment that involved composing and submitting short research articles for publication […].
Minority Nurse
JUNE 20, 2022
Nurses are in high demand across all health care settings right now, and health care recruiters are an excellent resource to help nurses find the best job. With excess strain on resources from the pandemic and nurses leaving the profession from retirement or burn out, many organizations are anxious to fill empty positions. A health care recruiter can be the link that connects qualified nurses with the right opportunity.
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
Relias
JUNE 22, 2022
Last month, I had the privilege of partnering with Relias to facilitate a webinar entitled: Co-Parenting Building Blocks To Promote Children’s Mental Health and Development. It was wonderful to have such great participation and audience engagement from those in attendance. After the webinar, there were a few questions in the chat that we did not have a chance to address during our discussion.
Nurse.com
JUNE 20, 2022
The pressures on new graduate nurses to transition from education to practice are often too much to take, causing registered nurses (RNs) meant to fuel nursing’s workforce pipeline in the coming decades to question their career choice. One thing that can ease the transition and help retain new nurses is nurse precepting, said Solimar Figueroa, PhD, RN, MHA, P-PCA, a clinical collaborator for the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement (AAPA).
Daily Nurse
JUNE 18, 2022
Casey Malish had just pulled into an intersection in the 2nd Ward when a woman with tattoos and pinkish hair unexpectedly hopped into the back seat of his gray Mazda. He handles outreach for the Houston Harm Reduction Alliance, a nonprofit that helps drug users like her stay alive. The woman, Desiree Hess, had arranged […].
Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations
JUNE 24, 2022
Melissa Myers, DNP, RN, PHN, CNE, CPN | Associate Professor, Chamberlain University, College of Nursing, RN to BSN Online Degree Completion Option Lisa A. Pardi DNP, MSN, MBA, RN, FNAP | Assistant Dean of Faculty, Chamberlain University, RN to BSN Online Degree Completion Option ACHNE Let’s face it, social media is a part of our lives whether we like it or not.
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.
Providence
JUNE 23, 2022
June 23, 2022 Bryan, a bachelor-prepared registered nurse working in Providence Alaska Medical Center’s Cardiovascular Observation Unit, has been at Providence for six of his seven years as an RN.
Nurse.com
JUNE 24, 2022
What does “unprofessional conduct in nursing” mean to you in relation to your own practice? Many of you may respond that you rely on the phrase’s definition by referring to your state nurse practice act and rules for its meaning. Relying on your practice act and rules’ definition is correct. And ideally you should be able to cite examples of unprofessional conduct that the statute and rules include, such as: Diverting controlled substances from the workplace.
Daily Nurse
JUNE 21, 2022
A video capturing the thoughts and emotions of Maine Medical Center (MMC) ICU nurses as they cared for unvaccinated patients during the Delta COVID-19 surge won MaineHealth videographer Charlie Berg a Regional Emmy® Award at Boston’s Wang Theater Saturday night. The story, entitled “Inside View of Maine Medical Center ICU Nurses Caring for Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients,” was posted on the MaineHealth […].
Aussie Nurse
JUNE 22, 2022
The Benefits Of Taking Your Breaks At Work Sometimes it’s not possible to take a break at work, we do try to avoid working through the whole shift yet the workload or the responsibilities on a nurse may mean we keep delaying the breaks until before we know it the end of the shift has arrived This can happen because of a few reasons- the workload or acuity is heavy, there may be staff shortages or we have to keep monitoring patients that are deteriorating or an individual patient who is impulsive
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.
Healthcare Law Insights blog
JUNE 23, 2022
As the health care industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based arrangements, providers are facing a lot of challenges. A provider’s relationship with payers is often strained by the new business model, and a provider’s ability to collaborate with payers has never been more important. On this episode of Value-Based Care Insights, host Daniel J.
Relias
JUNE 23, 2022
The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in healthcare is not new, but DEI is still a new focus for many healthcare organizations. As you move forward with DEI efforts, thinking about the potential challenges to success is important. Let’s explore ways to overcome barriers to DEI in your organization. In a 2021 Relias survey of 1,310 healthcare and public safety professionals, only 62% of respondents said that their organization participates in diversity, equity, and inclusion
Daily Nurse
JUNE 24, 2022
Trade your student debt for a promising career serving Veterans. If you’re looking for help repaying your student loans, you can qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program with a VA career. By canceling loans after 10 years of public service, PSLF removes the burden of student debt on public servants and entices people to […].
Hospital Recruiting | Nursing
JUNE 22, 2022
It’s no secret that working nights is challenging. Health care workers that work nights live in a world that doesn’t accommodate their needs. It’s hard to do ordinary things such as attending professional meetings, participating in family activities, getting enough rest, fresh air, and exercising. These challenges increase stress, fatigue, and the risk of other health hazards.
Equality 4 Black Nurses
JUNE 22, 2022
A mind yearns for a mouth to speak. How can I explain? The waters from the brooks of eyes. Even when hereby, a girl so far with the anguish of the trauma. And the bitterness buries deep down. How can I explain? My dreadlocks speak pure, but their dread eyes clearly with no love. Oh! Fear pierced me. deep in my marrow. of eyes that terrify and plot misery.
Healthcare Law Insights blog
JUNE 22, 2022
When confronted with a complaint, allegation or event that implicates a potential Medicare overpayment, hospices have an affirmative duty under the federal 60-day repayment rule to conduct an investigation and refund any overpayment. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Andrew Brenton share tips and tools for conducting internal investigations and determining when an issue implicates payment.
Daily Nurse
JUNE 21, 2022
Once again, DailyNurse is publishing a series of blog posts on nursing issues in the developing world by MScN nursing students at the Karachi, Pakistan campus of the Aga Khan School of Nursing and Midwifery. These articles were written as part of a class assignment that involved composing and submitting short research articles for publication in a recommended nursing blog […].
Minority Nurse
JUNE 22, 2022
Many people think of a healthy brain as an aging-related issue, but nurses know how important brain health is across the life span. Some of the habits and practices people develop early in life can impact their brain health decades later. If you know of a few habits you’d like to change, it’s never too late to start focusing on small steps to get you to a goal.
Yoga Nurse
JUNE 21, 2022
Tapping Into the Intelligence of the Universe Greetings Honoring you today and the Wheel of the Year which attunes you to the cycles and rhythms of life’s sacred flow. There’s a natural cycle of life: it begins, it sustains, it lets go. Nurses witness the cycle of birth, life in between, death. The first breath, the period of inhalations and exhalations we call life, and then the last breath.
Core Medical Group
JUNE 23, 2022
By now, you’ve probably heard about interim healthcare management and know a little bit about what a temporary leadership position in the medical field might look like.
Penn Medicine News
JUNE 20, 2022
Gun violence is a serious concern not just in Philadelphia, but nationally as well. And it comes as no surprise that gun violence can have a lasting effect on the mental health of victim’s families and loved ones.
Minority Nurse
JUNE 18, 2022
Trade your student debt for a promising career serving Veterans. If you’re looking for help repaying your student loans, you can qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program with a VA career. By cancelling loans after 10 years of public service, PSLF removes the burden of student debt on public servants and entices people to work in high-need fields.
Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations
JUNE 24, 2022
By Barbara E. Hekel barbara.e.hekel@uth.tmc.edu Bridgette Pullis bridgette.r.pullis@uth.tmc.edu Allison Edwards allison.p.edwards@uth.tmc.edu Deborah McCrea deborah.l.mccrea@uth.tmc.edu One in 4 adults in the United States has some type of disability, constituting over 61 million individuals (CDC, 2021). People with disabilities (PWD) often have unmet healthcare needs, difficulty accessing healthcare facilities, communication issues, and lack of medical information.
Daily Nurse
JUNE 24, 2022
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the nationwide right to choose an abortion. For decades, the rancorous debate about the ruling has often been dominated by politics. Ethics garners less attention, although it lies at the heart of the legal controversy. As a […].
Penn Medicine News
JUNE 22, 2022
Initiatives like Penn Medicine’s Program for LGBTQ Health and the Transgender Patient Advocate Program aim to make the health care experience a smoother, less stressful time, while making access to care easier.
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