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An Evidence-based Approach to Improving Nurse Mental Health 

Daily Nurse

Each year since 2020, we have published the annual Frontline Nurse Mental Health & Well-being Survey to gauge the collective health of our nursing workforce and advocate for solutions to support it. Furthermore, adverse mental health outcomes have decreased across all categories over the past year.

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BSN Clinical Rotation Guide: What to Expect in Each Specialty

Registered Nursing

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Rotation This unique rotation focuses on therapeutic communication and mental health interventions. Community/Public Health Nursing Rotation This rotation introduces population-based healthcare in non-hospital settings.

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What Nurses Need…

Life of a Nurse

Preceptors’ ranks have thinned as nurses head out the door and decide on a new career path, which leaves novice nurses learning by the seat of their pants. I hope due diligence is followed to ensure language, knowledge, and skills transfer smoothly. Unless you intend to change the way Canadian nursing care is delivered.

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Preventing nurse suicide: Nursing school and beyond

American Nurse

Strategies and support to improve mental health outcomes Suicide and mental illness have long been stigmatized, and although public awareness has grown recently, partially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals hesitate to acknowledge their own mental health struggles or seek help.

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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’ll graduate with her doctorate in nursing practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in December 2023.

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The Case for Soft Skills in Nursing Education

American Nurse

Individual nursing students can take initiative in honing their soft skills by seeking self-directed learning opportunities, participating in extracurricular activities, and purposefully eliciting feedback on their bedside manner from preceptors alongside clinical feedback.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level.