New Thing Nurse

DECEMBER 11, 2020

I have failed so many times this year. I have failed to get out of bed on days where my body wouldn’t listen to me. I have failed to be open with my family, friends, colleagues, and clients when the despair was too great to function. I have failed to be as present as I could have been during this most unprecedented time – historical mostly due to failures in leadership, process, and procedure that have cost our country 289,000 deaths and counting as of the writing of this post.

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NIOSH Science Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

November marked the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (PL 106-430) into law. The act required that OSHA amend its Bloodborne Pathogens Standard to include additional protections for workers to prevent occupational exposures to blood and body fluids.

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Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

DECEMBER 8, 2020

pexels.com/cottonbro As COVID-19 continues to spread in the US and around the world, frontline healthcare workers face the constant risk of being exposed to the virus. Even worse for many is the idea that they may take COVID-19 home to their families or to their friends. As lockdown measures begin to be lifted, the risk of spreading COIVD-19 from work to more people has become an even greater risk.

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Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

DECEMBER 10, 2020

andreypopov/123rf.com The current COVID-19 pandemic has pressured the medical community in ways that are tangible and quantifiable. New protocols add burden to already-stressed institutions working diligently to save lives and serve their communities. Even without these added pressures, medical professionals are often stretched to their limit. Lost, often, in the shuffle is the intangible fallout: the need to manage work/life balance for those who provide care, including those who support them.

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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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