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Fixing the Grad Nurse Turnover Problem by Equipping Your Preceptors

Healthy Workforce Institute

If you have a nurse turnover problem, chances are you have a preceptor problem. This high turnover rate significantly impacts finances, patient care, and team dynamics. If you struggle to retain your new nurses, it’s time to look closely at your preceptors. Preceptors are pivotal in onboarding new nurses.

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Maximizing the Nurse-Patient Relationship

Daily Nurse

In his work helping healthcare providers improve communication with patients and enhance care delivery, Goldman has discovered that positive change comes from many sources, including patient-centered care plans, improved communication, and patient satisfaction improvement strategies.

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Can’t We Nurses All Get Along?

Minority Nurse

A new grad nurse tells the story of a preceptor who seems determined to sabotage her orientation period, assuredly setting her up for failure and job loss. A quiet, hardworking nurse becomes the undeserving target of rude and demeaning behavior by the “queen bully” on her unit.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

When nurses participate, changes can be made to benefit patients and staff, which can contribute to shorter hospital stays, lower overall costs, and increased family and patient satisfaction. It comes back to being listened to.

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3 Health Systems Where Tech is Transforming Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

These three stories from HealthLeaders illustrate how nurses at hospitals and health systems around the country are embracing the advancements that technology and AI can provide: Singing River Health System The challenge to effectively train nurses without enough preceptors led Singing River Health System to turn to technology to get the job done.

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Why Nursing Certification Matters

Nurse.com

Over the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that nursing certification advances the profession of nursing through improvement in patient safety, patient satisfaction, and of course personal achievement for the certified nurse. Certification in any field is a mark of professionalism.

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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

The impact on nurse and patient satisfaction Takeaways: Challenged by the insufficient pipeline of clinical nurses required to backfill the vacancies created by the COVID-19 pandemic, current care delivery models require redesign. To assess perception of the existing CDM, we surveyed unit staff members via an anonymous survey.

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