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Bravery vs Cowardice

Candy Campbell

How often are we tempted to play it safe? Sometimes a little voice inside keeps us from really testing out what we can do. Whispering to us the something new will turn out to be dangerous, stupid, foolish, trite, beneath your dignity, above your pay grade. whatever. One trick to counter this is to name your little voice. My National Speakers Association colleague and humorist, Judy Carter, calls hers, SLASH.

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How Does This Happen?

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Many of you have read about the more than 7,600 fake RN and LPN nursing diplomas issued by three South Florida-based nursing schools: Siena College in Broward County, Fla., Palm Beach School of Nursing in Palm Beach County, Fla., and Sacred Heart International Institute in Broward County. […] The post How Does This Happen?

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5 Key Healthcare Trends Affecting Nurse Practitioners in 2023

Health Leaders | Nursing

NP demand is quickly growing because nearly 100M Americans lack access to primary care, AANP president says. Growing demand for nurse practitioners (NPs) is among the profession’s key trends for 2023, its national organization says. “The future of our profession is bright, and we stand ready to deliver the care patients need,” says April Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN , president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP).

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The Relentless School Nurse: What if we are Getting Student’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?

The Relentless School Nurse

I shot up in bed with this searing thought in my mind; what if we are getting this explosion of student behavioral and mental health challenges all wrong? What if the essence of their collective despair was what they see in the adult world? Often when you scratch the surface of behaviors we see in school, there is fear, anxiety, sadness or despair. Reports have been linking the “mental health epidemic” to COVID disruptions , but what if that weren’t true.

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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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Resources to better understand racism in nursing

American Nurse

Several new resources are now available to 
support understanding racism in nursing and taking action to alleviate it. Virtual summit: Impacts of systemic racism The National Commission to Address Racism in 
Nursing (the Commission), co-led by the American Nurses Association (ANA), National Black Nurses Association, National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations, and National Association of 
Hispanic Nurses, held its second virtual summit in November 2022 to engage the nursing communit

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Letting A New Graduate Go

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Letting a new graduate go during probation is a difficult topic that we rarely discuss but has come up in several leadership development sessions recently. A nurse manager related the following story: It is hard to even talk about this as I still feel guilty, although I […] The post Letting A New Graduate Go appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Hate Your Commute? It Might Be Good for Your Mental Health

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A new study suggests that hating your commute to work might actually improve your mental health. Researchers from Wayne State and Rutgers University found that commuting creates a liminal space that allows your brain to switch off and recharge. The COVID-19 pandemic deprived millions of Americans of their daily commutes, which could explain the increase in burnout, anxiety, and depression. “We believe the loss of this space helps explain why many people missed their commutes,” the au

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Why Are Nurses No. 1 in Honesty, Ethics? Because They’re All About the Patients

Health Leaders | Nursing

Annual Gallup poll has ranked nursing as America’s most-trusted profession for 21 consecutive years. Nurses’ ability to ensure their patients’ well-being is among the reasons why they rate the highest in honesty and ethics, says a nursing regulatory official. In Gallup’s recent annual poll outlining the most-trusted professions in America, nurses ranked first for the 21 st year.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Wendy Lamparelli Knew at Age Seven She Would be a Nurse – Here is Her Story

The Relentless School Nurse

More wonderful stories from the field are filling my mailbox! Remember if you want to share your school nursing story, please email me at relentlessschoolnurse@gmail.com. I have a new one to share, this one is from Wendy Lamparelli, the lead nurse in her New Jersey school district. She has a unique signature line that includes the message pictured below: Don’t Be Silent About Things That Matter.

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Nursing Techniques: How to Grow Your Staff

Daily Nurse

The critical shortage of nurses is raising the stakes to meet the healthcare industry’s hiring challenges, so it’s essential to grow your nursing staff by developing targeted marketing campaigns that speak directly to the concerns of potential employees.

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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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NCLEX to Be Changed as Fail Rates Climb

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Passing the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX) isn’t easy. Just ask any licensed registered nurse. But more and more students are having trouble passing the exam, which is only compounding the ongoing nurse shortage. Experts believe the COVID-19 pandemic is largely to blame. The health crisis forced nursing schools to conduct their operations online, depriving thousands of aspiring nurses the chance to learn and practice their skills in person.

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Novel Therapeutics Clinic Offers Access to Early-Phase Trials for Solid Tumors

Consult QD

To increase access to emerging cancer therapeutics and improve convenience for patients and researchers, Taussig Cancer Institute opened a dedicated Novel Therapeutics Clinic. Located on the main Cleveland Clinic campus in the Taussig Cancer Center, the new clinic provides access to early-phase trials of novel agents, including immunotherapies, cell and gene therapies, small molecule drugs, new radiation therapy modalities as well as viral therapies, for a wide range of solid tumors.

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What Nurses Need to Know: The 2023 Healthcare Forecast

Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine

2023 is already shaping up to be an interesting year in the world of healthcare. Our faculty experts at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing weigh in on some trends to expect in 2023 and beyond. Global Health Unprecedented disruptions caused by COVID-19, combined with economic, geopolitical and climate challenges place complex and interconnected threats… The post What Nurses Need to Know: The 2023 Healthcare Forecast appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine.

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AANP President April Kapu Says the Nurse Practitioner Role is More Than a Job. It’s a Calling 

Daily Nurse

U.S. News and World Report ranked the NP role first on its 2022 Best Health Care Jobs list, so we chatted with April N. Kapu, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, FAANP, FCCM, FAAN, and the president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP), about where she sees the role of nurse practitioners going in 2023.

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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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School Nurse Delivers Baby in Elementary School

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Tylar Krause, a school nurse at Kleberg Elementary in Dallas, TX, is used to treating kids for all kinds of aches and pains. And helping women give birth isn’t exactly in her job description. But that didn’t stop her from jumping into action when the mother of one of her students went into labor. Loren Carcamo was pregnant with her third child when she got a call from her kids’ school.

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Leveraging Your Status as an Older Nurse

Minority Nurse

In conversations with nurses around the country, I hear from older nurses who feel their age is a significant liability in today’s nursing job market. While age discrimination can be a valid concern to remember, older nurses can also leverage their professional history and life experience as a plus for employers seeking accomplished nurses with much to contribute as highly skilled healthcare professionals.

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Nurse Entrepreneurship: No Longer on the Fringes

American Nurse

A decade or more ago, when I told someone that I was a nurse entrepreneur, I would get the most quizzical and confused looks, including from quite a few nurses. They would say, “But nurses can’t be business people.” And I would say, “Wanna bet?” While “nurse” and “entrepreneur” might still seem completely unrelated to many who hear them used in the same sentence, the concept is indeed making headway, both within the nursing world and beyond.

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Stephanee Beggs Talks About Going From Side Gig to CEO

Daily Nurse

Imagine coming up with an idea to help yourself, and then you thought it might help other people too, well, something like what happened to Stephanee Beggs, BSN, RN. But she was doing training videos to help herself be able to study for the NCLEX exam during COVID-19.

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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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How One Nurse Made $2 Million in Two Years Selling Study Sheets Online

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Stephanee Beggs, 28, made a name for herself long before becoming a nurse. She originally earned a degree in business management but soon decided to go back to school to pursue her dream of helping others. Beggs was in the middle of an accelerated nursing program, which she says packs three years’ worth of education into one year, when the pandemic shut everything down, forcing her to continue her education online.

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AHA Exec: 'Workforce Is the Number One Concern for Hospitals Across the Country'

Health Leaders | Nursing

The hospital association says it is focusing advocacy on workplace violence, Medicare residency slots, the nursing shortage, and workforce diversity. Strengthening the healthcare workforce is one of the top priorities of the American Hospital Association's advocacy agenda for 2023. Health systems and hospitals are facing workforce shortages across the full spectrum of their employees.

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Taussig Rapid Access Clinic Reduces Emergency Room Visits for Patients with Cancer

Consult QD

It’s common for patients with cancer to need immediate intervention when pain, nausea, vomiting, fever or other issues occur, often leading them no choice but to go to the emergency room (ER). A National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey estimated that across the U.S., ER visits among patients with cancer increased from 3,734,101 in 2012 to 6,240,650 in 2019, and that more than one half of the visits were potentially preventable.

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Iowa RN Natalie Aunan Cares for a Patient’s Body and Loves Their Souls

Daily Nurse

Natalie Aunan, BSN, RN, works in the Surgical and Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (SNICU) at UI Health Care and treats her patients like family members. A patient’s daughter says Aunan cares for her patients’ broken bodies, but she loves their souls.

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Woman Presumed Dead Wakes Up in a Body Bag

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It’s a deep rooted fear in all of us – being buried alive, but when a nurse at Glen Oaks Alzheimer’s Special Care Center in Urbandale, Iowa checked on one of their patients, they were sure the 66-year-old woman was dead. They couldn’t find a pulse and saw no signs of life in the woman, who had been admitted to the facility in December for dementia.

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The Relentless School Nurse: America, We Have a School Shooting Crisis

The Relentless School Nurse

Early in the morning, I review news from the evening/day before. Today, as I do most days, I googled “school shooting,” further drilling down by “sorted by recent date,” here is a sampling of results, there are pages and pages: Seven mass shootings in California spotlight gun violence once more Teen shot outside Miami Norland Senior High School in Miami Gardens Shooting Occurs During High School Basketball Game in Delaware 2 teens injured in shooting that possibly stemmed

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Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes Recognizes USAHS Alum

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

USAHS alumni Julie Frymyer (DPT), the Chiefs’ Assistant Athletic Trainer/Physical Therapist at work After winning the AFC Championship game that put the team in Super Bowl LVII, star Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes gave props to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences alum Julie Frymyer, DPT, the Chiefs’ Assistant Athletic Trainer/Physical Therapist.

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NRC Health recognized as Best in KLAS for Patient Experience Improvement

NRC Health

NRC Health, the leading partner in building Human Understanding® through personalized healthcare solutions and data-driven insights, has received the Best in KLAS 2023 Award for Patient Experience Improvement. The post NRC Health recognized as Best in KLAS for Patient Experience Improvement appeared first on NRC Health.

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4 Long-Time Nurses on Why They Left the Profession and What They Did Next

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Long hours, stressful working conditions, and lots of pain and suffering. That’s what it feels like to be a nurse for thousands of providers. It’s no wonder nearly a third of all active nurses are considering leaving the profession, according to a recent report by McKinsey & Company. But where do nurses go when they decide to quit? Finding another career after devoting so much of your life to healthcare can be nerve-wracking, but there is a life outside of nursing.

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Celebrating Black Nursing Leaders: Meet Shameika Smith

Minority Nurse

Shameika Smith, RN, BSN, CRRN, is a registered nurse in the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program at Shepherd Center. This rehabilitation hospital provides world-class clinical care, research, and family support for people experiencing the most complex conditions like spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, multiple amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and pain.

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Is Being a Nurse Worth It? How Per Diem Renewed My Passion

IntelyCare

When I started working as a nurse, I was sure this would be my forever career. It never crossed my mind to think, “Is being a nurse worth it?” The hard days were outweighed by the impact of my work with my patients. And then, on March 11, 2020, everything changed. With the official proclamation of the pandemic , nurses were thrust onto the front lines of a global health crisis.

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Rules-Based Engine for Scheduling– Celayix

Celayix

There are lots of employee scheduling platforms out there similar to Celayix , so what sets us apart? Aside from our extensive feature list, we pride ourselves on the rules-based engine that powers our scheduler. This tool has the power to totally transform your workforce management processes, while saving you time and money. What is the Rules-Based Engine?

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Shocker: New Report States Nurses Aren’t Getting Enough Sleep

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Adults need anywhere from seven to nine hours of sleep every night. It’s crucial when it comes to replenishing your physical and mental health. If you don’t get enough sleep, it can lead to memory issues and poor decision making, two skills nurses need to do their jobs. A recent survey from the National Sleep Foundation shows nurses get on average 414 minutes of sleep, which is less than seven hours, before a workday and 497, just over eight hours of sleep, before non-workdays.

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Trends and Salaries Interactive Results

American Nurse

The post Trends and Salaries Interactive Results appeared first on American Nurse.

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Celebrating Black Nursing Leaders: Meet Dean Amar

Minority Nurse

Dean Angela Amar, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, is a professor, active researcher, and administrator for the UNLV School of Nursing. This nursing leader is a national expert on mental health nursing, sexual and dating violence, diversity in nursing leadership, and forensic nursing. Her research on dating violence, sexual assault, and mental health responses to traumatic experiences has earned funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and th