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Nurse Scheduling – A Complex but Crucial Issue

Celayix

How many times have you tried to create the perfect nurse schedule for your Long Term Care Facility? Our guess? Countless times. It can be frustrating right? Nurse Scheduling is Complex Nurse and Long Term Care (LTC) staff scheduling has many moving pieces. This makes it one of the hardest industries to make easy scheduling decisions. This reality makes it difficult to create the perfect schedule manually.

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5 Things to Consider When Changing Jobs as a Medical Provider

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

Changing positions as a medical provider can be a daunting process. Whether you are a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or other medical provider, leaving an old position and starting a new one can be a life changing experience. Discussed below are five things to consider when changing jobs as a medical provider. Licensing, Malpractice, and Credentialing When changing jobs as a medical provider, one of the most important things to consider is how your licensing, malpractice, an

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How Long Can Travel Nurses Stay in One Location?

The Gypsy Nurse

AB Staffing Solutions provided this article. Traveling and taking vacations can offer many health benefits and is a great way to improve your overall well-being. Exposure to new cultures, landscapes, and experiences can help stimulate your mind and enhance your creativity. Taking a break from your everyday routine can help you relax and rejuvenate, which will lower your stress levels.

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How to Reduce Interprofessional Conflict

Healthy Workforce Institute

Interprofessional conflict in healthcare is on the rise. Not only does this conflict cause tension between healthcare professionals, but it ultimately impacts patient care. If anyone on the healthcare team isn’t comfortable or willing to communicate with anyone else on the team, it directly impacts a patient. As a healthcare leader, therefore, it is essential to address and mitigate these conflicts to promote a respectful and healthy work culture that ensures safe, quality patient care.

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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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Leadership Burnout from Over Apologizing

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN I recently coached a young leader who acknowledges that she is burned out. I asked her about the most frustrating part of her role. She told me the following story: For a long time, I thought my burnout was all about my frustrations with staffing and scheduling. […] The post Leadership Burnout from Over Apologizing appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Foundational Research Yields Clues to Understanding Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Consult QD

There has been an alarming rise in colorectal cancer among people age 50 and younger. This trend spurred researchers at Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute and Lerner Research Institute to delve into the etiology of the disease. Several research teams are working together on parallel projects to better understand the rising incidence rate.

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Using Gemba Walks to Improve Staff Communication

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Improving communication across departments is often a key concern when discussing conflict areas in leadership programs. With increasing patient volumes, throughput within a facility can be a major pain point in facilitating timely admissions, discharges, and transfers. Nurse leaders admit that nurses drag their heels with ADTs […] The post Using Gemba Walks to Improve Staff Communication appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Remote Nursing: Find Work-From-Home Jobs That Work for You

Nurse.com

Are you searching for a nursing job that allows you to skip the scrubs and stressful commutes? Remote nursing jobs offer these perks and more. From telemedicine to teaching, nurses are finding that they don’t have to step inside a hospital or clinic to help patients. Telemedicine jobs No doubt, telemedicine certainly opened the door to more remote nursing jobs.

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Clinical Informatics Elective Provides Immersive Learning Experience

Consult QD

Enhancing patient care with digital tools is nothing new. But clinical input can make these tools even more efficient. Bridging the gap between clinical input and technical advancements is the field of clinical informatics. Clinical informatics involves collaboration between healthcare and information technology professionals to optimize information and communication systems at all levels.

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‘Essential’: hospital staffing key concern for NSW’s new health minister

Nursing Review

The NSW Health Minister is prioritising fairer staffing ratios in hospitals and better working conditions for the state's frontline workers. Health Minister Ryan Park told Nursing Review he planned to address staffing shortages, high work pressure, and recruitment challenges. "We need to ensure our healthcare workers are at the heart of our healthcare system," Mr Park said.

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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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Finding Nursing Career Inspiration

Daily Nurse

Nursing does not have a reputation for being generally easy work, and a career as a nurse presents many potential challenges. Long hours, significant risks to one’s health and safety, work-based stress, challenging colleagues and patients — there’s plenty that can try a nurse’s patience and stretch compassion to the limit. And since we don’t choose to become nurses for the awesome outfits, sexy shoes, high salaries, and glamorous lifestyles that such work affords, something else obviously calls

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Neonatal abstinence syndrome: A quality improvement initiative

American Nurse

Standardize care, educate nurses. Takeaways: Newborns who’ve experienced long-term in-utero exposure to illegal drugs or prescribed medication may experience withdrawal symptoms after birth. Lack of standardized treatment protocols leads to longer NICU stays, prolonged pharmacologic treatment, and increased healthcare costs. A team of nurses initiated a combination evidence-based project and quality improvement project to address this need.

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Revealing Connection Between BMI and Right-Colon Cancer

Consult QD

A study by researchers at Cleveland Clinic in Florida identified a linear increase in advanced nodal disease linked to increased body mass index (BMI) for patients with right-colon cancer. This interesting finding could have implications for the assessment and treatment of patients with obesity diagnosed with colon cancer, according to lead author Sameh H.

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Can You Refuse An Unsafe Assignment?

Empowered Nurses

Here’s the scene: you walk into work for your 12-hour shift and immediately find yourself facing an exceptionally heavy patient load. What can you do? Your first thought is probably “I don’t want to commit malpractice; I want to provide the best care for my patients, and I want to protect my license.” When you look at the staffing assignments, it can be both overwhelming and stressful.

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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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RN Julie Thompson Helps Little Boy Overcome Fear and Anxiety Before Surgery

Daily Nurse

Julie Thompson, a nurse at Van Diest Medical Center (VDMC) in Webster City, Iowa, helped a little boy overcome his fear and anxiety before surgery and was named the 2023 recipient of the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Daily Nurse is proud to honor Thompson as our Nurse of the Week , recognizing the super-human work Thompson provides for patients and families every day at VDMC.

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Magnet4Europe

American Nurse

Takeaways: The Magnet4Europe program aims to improve the mental health and well-being of European health professionals and improve patient outcomes by redesigning work environments. A collaboration between nurses at a hospital in New Jersey and nurses at a hospital in Germany worked to establish a Magnet council, develop a professional practice model, and create other strategies for improvement.

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Understanding Frontline ABVD in the Real World

Consult QD

Although frontline treatment for classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (cHL) is intended to be curative, a surprisingly high percentage of patients treated in the community setting receive subsequent therapy. This is one of many issues raised from a retrospective analysis of patients treated with ABVD in the real-world setting. Background In 2018, the RATHL study demonstrated that patients with advanced stage cHL could be treated with ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine and dacarbazine) for two cyc

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Texas Jury Renders $10 Million Verdict in Novel Corporate Practice of Medicine Case

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Following two weeks of trial testimony, a Travis County jury recently rendered a $10 million verdict in a novel corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) case. The jury found in favor of a physician hospitalist group that claimed a management company repeatedly broke its promise to comply with the state’s CPOM prohibition, putting profits over patients, among other wrongdoings.

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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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Healthcare Workforce Trends Survey Results Show Patient Safety is Top Priority, and It Starts with Engagement and Retention

Daily Nurse

The results of a nationwide survey of human resource (HR) leaders and chief nursing officers (CNOs) examining the dynamics and trends impacting talent at healthcare institutions find patient safety and quality of care on par with employee retention needs. The study reveals that 84 percent of HR leaders and CNOs rate the quality of care and patient safety as the most critical issue to address in their organization, followed by strengthening employee engagement and retention (77 percent) and impro

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6 Ways to Pay for In-Home Care

Elder Care Matters

Right at Home cares for thousands of families just like yours. We know that hiring an in-home care agency is one of the most important decisions you’ll make—you want to get it right and you have a lot of questions. One of the biggest questions is usually about the cost of in-home care services. Home… The post 6 Ways to Pay for In-Home Care appeared first on Elder Care Directory - ElderCareMatters.com.

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Acute kidney injury: A nursing challenge

American Nurse

Rely on interprofessional collaboration, follow the evidence. Takeaways: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common condition affecting hospitalized patients, particularly those who are critically ill. Monitoring serum creatinine, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and urine output is essential to AKI management. Prompt treatment of AKI aids in preventing life-threatening complications.

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235 organizations express support for legislation expanding scope of practice

Becker's Hospital Review

More than 235 organizations, including the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and the American Nurses Association, expressed support for the Improving Care and Access to Nurses Act in a June 6 letter to Congress.

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Nursing Care Plan for Sepsis

NurseBuff

Sepsis (1) is scary. It can start off showing signs and symptoms of pneumonia, urinary tract infection or the flu. Before you know it, it has already developed into a widespread inflammation and infection, causing organ failure and even death. As a nurse, it’s your responsibility to ensure that your patients don’t develop infection and […] The post Nursing Care Plan for Sepsis appeared first on NurseBuff.

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Feeling Stuck? 5 Reasons Why and How to Get Out of the Rut 

Minority Nurse

Many nurses feel stuck and need help figuring out why. Alright, no worries. I can reassure you that you are not the only nurse feeling this way. Here are some reasons you may feel stuck and how to get out of that rut. Lack of Career Advancement and Growth You may not be experiencing growth in your current position. Or you are not getting the opportunities you want due to different circumstances.

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Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

Shorten delays, improve safety, reduce costs Takeaways: Hospital discharge delays can result in patient safety issues, reduced patient satisfaction, and increased costs. An assessment tool that goes into effect at admission can help the patient and healthcare team prepare for discharge. Hospital discharge delay, defined as more than 2 hours from the time of a written order, can negatively impact patients and hospitals.

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The Exec: HCA Healthcare Aims to 'Change the National Statistics' With Aggressive Nurse Education Strategy

Health Leaders | Nursing

Galen College of Nursing has multiplied its campuses nearly fourfold since HCA's acquisition 3 years ago. When HCA Healthcare acquired a majority stake in Galen College of Nursing , one of the nation’s largest private nursing schools, in early 2020, the nursing school consisted of a handful of campuses. Since the HCA acquisition, Galen has expanded to 19 campuses nationwide, plus an online program, with an enrollment of some 12,000 students.

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Michigan nursing school boasts 100% NCLEX pass rate

Becker's Hospital Review

National Council Licensure Exam pass rates have been steadily falling in recent years but one nursing school in Ohio is bucking the trend, according to The Weirton Daily Times.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Marliyn “Nia” Wright

Minority Nurse

Marilyn “Nia” Wright, MSN, MHA, RN, CNOR, is a retired nurse who can’t stay away from the industry she loves. As a nurse student, Wright was nicknamed Nia, an acronym for Nurse in Action, because she was eager to care for people and often volunteered to do whatever she could for as many patients as she could, whether or not those patients were part of her assignment.

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COVID-19 alternate care sites: RN perspective

American Nurse

Identify challenges and benefits to inform future sites. Takeaways: This project sought the perspectives of RNs to understand the challenges, barriers, and benefits of working in COVID-19 alternative care sites (ACSs). These recommendations are the first based on direct interviews with RNs working at these sites. Project findings can help identify improvements and practical implementations when ACSs are needed in response to future pandemics and disasters.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Safeguarding Our Health From Visible and Invisible Threats

The Relentless School Nurse

Photo credit: Joe Lamberti The arrival of smoke creating hazardous air quality from the Canadian fires has provided a stark visual reminder of the impact of air pollution on our daily lives. The hazy skies and reduced visibility have created an atmosphere that is impossible to ignore. In response, individuals are increasingly masking up to protect themselves from the visible particles that pose immediate health risks.

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Viewpoint: More immigrant nurses available if Congress acts 

Becker's Hospital Review

Hospitals working to bolster their burned out and dwindling nursing staffs by hiring internationally trained nurses were stopped in their tracks when the State Department issued a red light on green cards in April.

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ChatGPT and Its Potential in Nursing Education

Daily Nurse

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers incredible potential to improve health on a global scale, and ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, shows great promise as a convenient and accessible way for nursing students to access information and practice their clinical skills using ChatGPT-assisted learning in nursing education. Cara Lunsford , RN, CPHON, is the vice president of community at Nurse.com, where she fosters a community where nurses can find peer support, allies,

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Smoke Signals: An Urgent Warning to Address the Climate Crisis

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

The smoke-filled air coming from the Canadian wildfires is an urgent warning that we must address the climate crisis. This is a critical time to bring together nursing and public health knowledge, skills, and leadership to address the needs of communities and help protect them. We must work to help provide accurate information and material… The post Smoke Signals: An Urgent Warning to Address the Climate Crisis appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.