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Maryland’s Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit: A Call to Action

American Nurse

Introduction In 2016, Maryland became one of the first states to implement a Healthcare Preceptor Tax Credit. The aim of this legislation was to help alleviate healthcare workforce shortages in the State, and it provided a tax incentive to nurse practitioner student preceptors. Rasheed et al, 2020).

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Article Review and Discussion: Determining Best Fit for Newly Licensed Nurses

Relias

Newly licensed nurses transitioning into clinical practice can experience stress, uncertainty, and lack of confidence. Reduce burden off preceptors. Healthcare leaders are pressed to ensure newly licensed nurses are set up for success in their transition into a new role — ideally, as safe and as early as possible. Highlights.

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The Exec: How Phoenix Children's is Better Preparing Nursing Students to Work in Pediatrics

Health Leaders | Nursing

They already have built up their competencies as well as their confidence, which is key for newly licensed nurses, so they've already got that fundamentally built in on Day One of their work. For the ASU students, they get a very focused entire year of pediatric care and so they are better prepared coming into the organization.

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Advance Your Nursing Career: Creating a Nursing E-Portfolio is Easier Than You Think

Daily Nurse

But we do much more than obtain required continuing education hours, maintain certifications, and renew licenses. We should all record our many accomplishments, such as presentations, publications, preceptor hours, acts of service, etc. Where are you documenting that?

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Can Academic Partnerships Fix the Nursing Shortage?

Health Leaders | Nursing

The goal behind the grant program, according to the HRSA, is to forge a pathway for students to enter the clinical environment by creating and implementing Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to Registered Nurse (RN) bridge programs, and the employment of clinical nurse faculty.

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On leaving and loving nursing

American Nurse

The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) reported that an estimated 100,000 (to as many as 200,000) RNs and 34,000 licensed practical (LPNs) and vocational nurses left the workforce over the past 2 years. The reason? The pandemic. Although acute care hospitals employ 73.5%

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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

This number was the highest in decades due to capacity issues, including insufficient clinical sites, classroom space, faculty, and clinical preceptors. Instead, this report projects a significant shortfall of 37,400 RNs and 21,700 licensed practical nurses by 2035 due to an uneven distribution of nurses across the state.