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The World Is On Edge…

Life of a Nurse

The stress of workload, moral distress, and working conditions translated into a vulnerable health care sector; nurses in significant numbers changing their practice from acute and long term care to remote work, public health, and leaving the profession. Nursing burnout. References McGillis Hall, L.

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Nurse Scheduling – A Complex but Crucial Issue

Celayix

How many times have you tried to create the perfect nurse schedule for your Long Term Care Facility? Nurse Scheduling is Complex Nurse and Long Term Care (LTC) staff scheduling has many moving pieces. This can also lead to nurse burnout and lower than intended patient care standards.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession.

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What States Are RNs in Highest Demand?

The Gypsy Nurse

Where would your nursing skills make the biggest impact? Some states are desperately seeking RNs to keep up with patient care demands. An aging population, nurse burnout, and a wave of retirements among experienced nurses have left many facilities scrambling to fill gaps. Medical Solutions provided this article.

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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

And we need to ensure that the nurses graduating are practice-ready because they are not. We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years.

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Minimizing Medical Burnout: Dr Sarah M I Cartwright

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

They have successfully led projects to improve access and outcomes in emergency rooms, urgent care centers, primary care centers, and care coordination between acute and long term care. Does it just mean poor job satisfaction? Can you explain? At The University of St. Second, lack of sleep.

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Assessing unit culture

American Nurse

These behaviors hurt employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention, as well as quality outcomes, leading to nurse burnout and patient safety events. Using the Nursing Culture Assessment Tool (NCAT) in long-term care: An update on psychometrics and scoring standardization. Healthcare. 2015;3(3):637-47.