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What It’s Like to Be a Psychiatric NP: A Talk With Tamar Rodney, PMHNP-BC

Daily Nurse

Seeing a patient smile… is a reminder that while many things can be wrong and recovery is a lifelong journey, small things like a momentary smile symbolize ongoing hope. —Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Tamar Rodney, PHD, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC, CNE Patients with psychiatric problems need special care. That’s why it’s important for nurses to know that […].

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The Importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing

Minority Nurse

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are hot topics in the healthcare world, but including a DEI module in our yearly education isn’t enough to address these issues. Policy is a valuable tool, but actual change needs to come from a more personal level, from each and every staff member. Before we can have a meaningful conversation about DEI that might lead us toward significant change, we need to understand the meaning of diversity, equity, and inclusion and why it is important in healthcare.

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Elder Law

Elder Care Matters

There are legal considerations for every stage in life. The practice of elder law focuses on the legal challenges, asset preservation and planning long-term care for those individuals who are of 50 years of age and older. It is important to be prepared and work with a knowledgeable elder law attorney as this is a… The post Elder Law appeared first on Elder Care Directory - ElderCareMatters.com.

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Nurse Volunteers Help Victims of Conflict in Ukraine

Nurse.com

Being a nurse for the past 14 years, Rae Sherred, BSN, RN, has always felt a strong desire to help others. So, when Sherred learned about an organization planning a medical mission to provide humanitarian support to the people of Ukraine, she and other nurse volunteers like her hopped on a plane. “Being able to help anybody is showing love for them,” said Sherred, who said her Christian faith was a major factor behind her decision to volunteer in Ukraine.

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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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My Clinicals Experience: On the Trauma Unit

Daily Nurse

Many nurses can’t wait to experience the urgency and pace of a trauma unit, but what is it really like to work on one? Marissa Kesse (Nu ’23), a BSN student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, shares her clinicals experience. I was so excited to have been placed on the trauma unit: […].

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Using EdTech Learning Tools to Sharpen Nurses’ Clinical Reasoning and Critical Thinking Skills

Minority Nurse

To be a nurse, one must possess many different skills, with clinical judgment –the ability to think critically and make quick decisions that impact patient outcomes – being one of the most important. Another increasingly important skill is technology literacy, or the ability to use, understand and manage technology. Elsevier’s recent Clinician of the Future report found that 53% of U.S. nurses believe that technology literacy will become their most valuable capability over the next ten yea

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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

Ten years into practicing nursing, I was experiencing burnout, exhaustion, and apathy. I spent three of those 10 years working as a staff nurse in med-surg and perioperative units and the rest in various positions in home health and hospice. Kelly Langford, RN. Since I wasn’t willing to switch careers, I decided to try a different specialty — something challenging, a bit more exciting, and outside my comfort zone.

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Nurse Researcher Kasey Jordan: School Nurses are Key to Promoting Resilience in School Settings

Daily Nurse

Nurse researcher and educator Kasey Jordan, RN, PhD knows the stereotypical image of a school nurse – overworked, underpaid and, over the past two years, often on the front lines of controversial COVID policies. And while those things are true, they aren’t the complete picture, says this Nurse of the Week. “We don’t always present […].

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8 Problems Driving the Nurse Staffing Crisis

Minority Nurse

Today’s healthcare landscape has been riddled with hardship and systemic shifts. Large-scale downward trends were highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis, but originated beforehand and will require massive effort to reverse. Unfortunately, the brunt of these inefficiencies and problems falls disproportionately on certain portions of the medical professional family.

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Two Strikes for DOJ: Health Care Executives Not Guilty of Antitrust Conspiracies

Healthcare Law Insights blog

The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent criminal prosecutions of health care executives for no-poach and wage-fixing conspiracies have been met with not-guilty verdicts. Despite these losses, the Department continues to prosecute this conduct, and antitrust enforcers will continue to investigate human resources practices that may restrain competition.

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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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How Privileging Technology Benefits Patient Safety and Clinical Outcomes | symplr

Symplr

Maintaining current and accurate hospital privileging data is incredibly important for any healthcare provider organization. Doing so is at the heart of patient safety. It ensures that the providers your organization employs or contracts with are not only qualified, but will provide the highest quality care in the most efficient manner. In that way, privileging affects more than safety, extending to outcomes measures.

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Nurse of the Week: Brittany Wilborn’s Nursing Career Was Well Worth the Wait

Daily Nurse

“Since I was in, I think, about 4th or 5th grade I knew I wanted to be a nurse,” says Brittany Wilborn, RN. It took the mother of five nearly a decade, but Wilborn, our Nurse of the Week, knows how to persevere and how to pace herself. She has cleared the many obstacles in […].

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LPN’s License Revoked for Pocketing Expired Medications

Nurse.com

In past blogs, I have reviewed cases that demonstrate the powers and authority of nursing boards. Oftentimes, such a discipline is based on the nurse licensee’s unprofessional conduct. When a nurse licensee challenges a board of nursing discipline, the licensee often bases the case on a violation of his or her due process rights. In the following case, an LPN fought a board of nursing order revoking her license.

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Culture of Compliance, Learning Management Platforms, and You

Relias

As a human services leader, you go to work every day to help make your community a better place. And though it may seem tedious, compliance is a key component to this mission. Where many organizations go wrong is treating compliance as an item to check off on a to-do list. In actuality, compliance should be treated as an integral part of your organization’s culture.

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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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Supporting working professionals with care benefits at Providence

Providence

May 17, 2022 Reliable child and elder care are critical for working professionals. That’s why we offer a host of resources to help ease our caregivers’ way as they juggle the demands of their daily lives including Primary Childcare Solutions, Back-Up Care, virtual camps, virtual tutoring services and more.

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Michigan Becomes 20th State to Allow CRNAs to Work Free of Physician Supervision

Daily Nurse

Practice authority for advanced practitioner nurses took another stride forward on May 10 when Michigan became the 20th state to opt out of federal regulations that require physician supervision of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) reports that the governors of 19 additional states and Guam have exercised such […].

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What It Takes To Be A Great Nurse

Carlow Today & Tomorrow

National Nurses Month, which takes place in May, is the month to recognize the hard work and dedication of nurses. Nurses Month is divided into four weekly focus areas, including self-care, recognition, professional development and community engagement. The month may also be a good time for nurses, new and experienced, to reflect on their careers. What do they enjoy most about being a nurse?

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A Complete Guide to Peri-anaesthesia & Perioperative Nursing: Part 1

The Nurse Break

Meet Rory Tanner , a Peri-anaesthesia Clinical Nurse Specialist, Educator and Facilitator and the Founder of the Aussie Nurse Educator. Rory shares his passion and clinical expertise to bring you a complete guide to peri-anaesthesia and perioperative nursing! If you’re interested in this speciality or just curious to expand your nursing knowledge, you’ve come to the right place.

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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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Survey: Media and Public Hail Them as Heroes, But Nurses Sense a Disconnect

Daily Nurse

Chances are you’ve seen and read more positive portrayals of nursing in the news media since the start of the pandemic than in years past. Recall those days at the start of the pandemic when nurses and other healthcare providers were hailed as heroes, and the country was counting on nursing, as part of an […].

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Lauder Donates $125 Mil for Tuition-Free Program to Recruit and Deploy NPs in Underserved Communities

Daily Nurse

This fall, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) is launching the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, which will recruit and prepare a diverse cadre of expert nurse practitioners (NPs) to provide primary care to individuals and families in underserved communities across the U.S. Largest gift ever The $125 million […].

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ASU Nurse Receives Grant to Develop Cancer Health Equity Research Center for Hispanic Patients

Daily Nurse

A University of Arizona College of Nursing researcher was one of only four recipients of a $4 million American Cancer Society grant to develop a “Cancer Health Equity Research Center” with the goal of improving health equity for Hispanic cancer survivors and family care givers. “We will be developing and testing interventions that can be incorporated into […].

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Judge: Former RN Can Serve 3 Year Probation Term to Expunge Conviction for Fatal Error

Daily Nurse

RaDonda Vaught, the former Tennessee RN convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error, whose trial became a rallying cry for nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes, will not be required to spend any time in prison. Davidson County criminal court Judge Jennifer Smith on Friday granted Vaught a judicial diversion, which means […].