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How to Create a Professional Work Culture

Healthy Workforce Institute

Being a leader in healthcare is hard enough without worrying about your employees making it harder. Bullying, incivility, and inter-professional conflicts are consuming way too much of a leaders’ time – time better spent on more important work. To make matters worse, organizations don’t do a good job equipping their leaders with the skills and tools they need to address disruptive behaviors so that they know how to cultivate a positive and professional work culture.

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Suicide Prevention for Healthcare Workers

NIOSH Science Blog

Some occupations are known to have higher rates of suicide than others (see related blogs). Job factors – such as low job security, low pay, and job stress – can contribute to risk of suicide, as can easy access to lethal means among people at risk—such as medications or firearms. Other factors that can influence the link between occupation and suicide include gender, socioeconomic status, the economy, cultural factors, and stigma.

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Transitioning Pediatric Patients to Adult Care

Gebauer Company

The transition from late teens to early adulthood is rife with challenges, transformations, and new experiences. It’s a time when adolescents leave behind the comforts of childhood and begin embracing the freedom and responsibility of being an adult. From going away to college and choosing a career path to handling finances and living away from home, it’s all a bit overwhelming.

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Prioritizing the mental health of our caregivers

Providence

September 14, 2021 A recent commentary article in U.S. News & World Report calls on our national health system to do better by our frontline caregivers as they struggle with mental health issues in the midst of COVID-19. Mental health is critical in enabling our caregivers to deliver world-class 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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Specialist orthopaedic trust prepares for first cohort of nursing associates

Nursing Times

Nurse leaders at a specialist hospital trust in Shropshire says it is looking forward to training its first cohort of nursing associates – a role it describes as “vital to developing the next generation” of the future workforce. The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic… The post Specialist orthopaedic trust prepares for first cohort of nursing associates appeared first on Nursing Times.

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My children of 911.20 years gone by

EDNurseasauras

This post was originally published on the 10th anniversary of that awful day. 10 years ago I was working as a school nurse for the sixth graders' annual 5 day Nature Camp trip. This was always a fun experience for all, and highly anticipated by those of us fortunate enough to go. The week was carnival time for faculty, a "Get Out of Jail Free" pass, Wonka Golden Ticket.