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What Negative Online Reviews Reveal About Hospitals
There are 140 million+ Yelp reviews, with 8.4 million related to healthcare. Some are positive and others negative, but a new study found that certain words were common to both types of reviews.
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Covid-19
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Taking Stock: Five Ways the Pandemic Changed Nursing
With the pandemic still going on, it’s impossible to get a forest-level view of all the ways Covid-19 has impacted healthcare and nursing in particular.
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Nurse Safety
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Nurses at Risk of “Second Hand” Opioid Exposure
Accidental opioid overdose due to secondary exposure has become an alarming phenomenon occurring among individuals who are often not even aware that they have come into contact with these agents.
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National Nurse Practitioner Week: Empowering Nurse Practitioners for Health Equity
As we honor National Nurse Practitioner Week, policymakers and stakeholders must acknowledge the urgency of granting full practice authority to nurse practitioners nationwide.
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Nurse Community
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Wise Word of the Month: Level
Every level of person in relation to a patient is in some way affected by the care that hospitals and nurses provide.
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Nurse Community
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So, You’ve Made a Medical Error — What Should You Tell the Patient?
New research takes a stab at answering this perennial question.
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Patient Care
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Five Clinical Pearls from a Burn Nurse
What to do, and not do, when treating a burn patient. Plus, professional development opportunities to build your burn care knowledge, including the upcoming burn nursing specialty certification
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Job Tips
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The Average Salary of Every Type of Hospital Employee
Employment in the healthcare and social assistance sector will account for one-third of all new jobs in the US in 2026.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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See How Your Hospital’s Safety Compares to Thousands Of Others Across the Country
This comprehensive grading system for hospital safety found that patients at facilities with a D or F mark were 92% more likely to die of an avoidable error than those at A-ranked hospitals.
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Health Tech / HCIT
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Results from a Pilot Program for Monitoring Covid-19 Patients at Home
Here's how one health system tracked and offered support to Covid-19 patients who didn't require hospitalization.
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Patient Safety
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Relax — And Listen to the Melodic Medical Alarms of the Future
Mix medical alarms with vomiting, coughing, telephones and blaring intercoms and you’ve got a sonic torture chamber, AKA a hospital.
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Patient Safety
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Providers Debate: Does Long Hair Belong in a Clinical Setting?
Wearing your hair long can place your patients at risk. Here are the ways.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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Meet the Team of Nurses Who Revolutionized Their Hospital’s EHR System
This multi-year undertaking called Project Joy has allowed nurses at the UCHealth system to spend more time at the bedside than they’d done in a year.
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Advocacy
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Wise Word of the Month: Reach
How can we understand nurses’ global reach? What is the global impact of nursing? Follow along as we unpack the historical usage of the word reach and its application to nursing.
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Nurse Community
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Elevating The Nursing Voice: It’s Time for Us to Speak Up
Looking at nursing representation in the 118th Congress, the number of representatives identified as nurses is small – two in the House of Representatives, and a nurse has never served in the Senate
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Nurses, Doctors Have Different Views on Workplace Safety, Risks to Patients
Hospitals need to promote occupational safety but doing so involves the cooperation of all the healthcare professionals on staff. But a new study suggests doctors and nurses don’t always see eye-to-ey
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Job Tips
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How Much Do RNs Make? Nurse Wages Depend on Many Factors
Medscape’s annual survey of the yearly compensation of registered nurses reveals that their full-time earnings don’t reflect what one would expect with the steadily growing job market.
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Higher Pay, Better Benefits for PAs Employed in Hospitals
Physician assistants (PAs) work in a wide range of healthcare settings, but the best paying jobs appear to be in hospitals, according to a new report.
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New EMR Alerts Prescribers to Additional Treatment Options Improving Patient Outcomes
The study tested the feature for cardiology patients, but it could benefit prescribers in a wide range of specialities.
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Nurse Safety
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How Effective Is Your Face Mask?
N-95 face masks are the gold standard, but what protections do surgical and procedure masks offer against particles that could carry virus?
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Patient Safety
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Malnutrition is Common In Hospitals and a Hazard for Patients
We like to think that our hospitals provide just about anything a patient might need. But in reality, malnutrition is an incredibly common problem in hospitals
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Advocacy
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Patients Can’t Wait: Nurses Rally in Southern California to Protect Staffing Ratios
Nurses of SEIU 121RN rally for enforcement of safe patient staffing ratios. These nurses call on CDPH to penalize offenders for violating safe ratios.
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Inpatient vs. Outpatient: Which is Associated with More Preventable Medical Errors?
Primary and outpatient settings provide the bulk of health care — but do they account for the bulk of errors?
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10 Ways to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance, Make ICU Units Safer
Outbreaks of Acinetobacter baumannii typically occur in intensive care units and healthcare settings with very ill patients. A new study has unlocked a key step in how one Acinetobacter bacterium is
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Data / Informatics
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Advanced Practice Provider Professions See Unparalleled Growth in Recent Years
Lately, PAs and NPs have been regularly ranked among the best jobs in the country — and it looks like it’s starting to catch on!
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Burnout Prevention
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6 Ways Healthcare Workplaces Fail to Support Employees and Contribute to Burnout
And why burnout is never just your fault…
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Education
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How to Pick the Best Health Insurance for Traveling Nurses
With the increased need for excellent nurses across the country due to the coronavirus epidemic, not having to worry about insurance coverage is a huge relief for any travel nurse.
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Opinion
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TikTok - The Clock Runs Out on Four Nurses’ Employment
TNB's Advisory Board member, Fred Neis, reflects on the four Emory Nurses that lost their jobs after sharing their 'icks' on TikTok.
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Lifestyle
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The Joy of Working the Holidays: A Collection of Holiday Memories from 25 Nurses
As nurses, we share a common thread of being required to work on the holidays
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Burnout Prevention
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Six Common Professional Terms That Hold NPs and PAs Back
Is there really such a thing as a “mid-level provider”?
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Data / Informatics
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Six Things You Didn’t Know About the Benefits of Evidence-Based Practice
Think you’re too busy for evidence-based practice? Think again! EBP can actually save time by helping you focus on procedures that are proven to work.
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Health Tech / HCIT
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The Hidden Healthcare Heroes: A Lab Techs Journey Through the Pandemic
I entered into the clinical field under unusual circumstances.
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Data / Informatics
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In-Hospital Adverse Events Rates Decrease
If you’re tired of all the depressing bad news lately in the healthcare sphere, we actually have some positive news for you today!
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Patient Safety
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More RN Staffing Means Fewer Sepsis Deaths
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that one in three patients who die in the hospital has sepsis.
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Tips for Work
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5 Things Every New Nurse Needs to Know
Preparing for success is an excellent method to alleviate anxiety. When you start working, you’ll quickly realize that structure is crucial. Let’s talk about five things every new nurse needs to know.
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Nurse Safety
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Five Strategies to De-Escalate Patients and Avoid Workplace Violence
Many healthcare employees have little to no education about workplace violence, from strategies to avoid it to how to report if it does happen.
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5 Responses Guaranteed to Shut Down Nurse Bullying as Soon as You See It
Nurse bullying will only truly disappear when every single nurse makes an effort to eliminate it.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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5 Benefits of Being a Preceptor You’ve Probably Never Thought of
Helping mold the future of your profession might make you feel warm and fuzzy — but precepting can have financial and professional perks, too…
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Patient Safety
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5 Key Practices that Improve Provider-Patient Relationships
Simple steps such as chart review, open body language and reading emotional cues can help foster a better connection.
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Patient Safety
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5 Things Nurses and PAs Can Do to Stem the Spread of Measles
To stop the current measles outbreak, educating people about vaccine safety is crucial—and nurses and PAs have a unique platform to do so.
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Tips for Work
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Am I Even Qualified For This Nurse Job?
How do you know if you have what they want?
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Patient Safety
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Under 5 COVID Vaccines Close at Hand
The last remaining group of people waiting for COVID vaccine eligibility is those under 5 years old, and the moment may finally have arrived.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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5 Ways To Help Your Patients Save
Patients in the U.S. pay more per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world for prescriptions.
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Patient Safety
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5 Ways Healthcare Providers Can Minimize Racial Health Disparities
Even though it’s common knowledge that a person’s race influences their health — from the rates of certain types to cancer to social determinants — many providers prefer to avoid talking about it.
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Patient Safety
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5 Systemic Diseases with Dermatologic Involvement
Systemic diseases often have a wide range of cutaneous manifestations. Here are 5 major systemic diseases where the first signs of disease appear on the skin.
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Health Tech / HCIT
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4 Talking Points to Share with Patients Using Wearable, Health Tech
As wearable health tech explodes in the market, questions remain about its accuracy and safety. Here’s what to tell patients.
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Patient Safety
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These Three Conditions Cause Three-Fourths of the Most Harmful Diagnostic Errors
A misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis is behind one-third of the malpractice cases that end in permanent disability or death.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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Nation’s Top-Performing Rapid Response Teams Share These Four Qualities
RRTs that foster relationships with bedside nurses tend to be more effective. Learn about a few other strategies that can improve RRT success rates.
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Patient Safety
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4 Ways to Boost Your Heart Health as a Health Professional
High stress, break room snacks, and limited time and energy to exercise are just some of the occupational (heart) hazards that HCPs face.
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4 Ways Healthcare Systems Will Evolve to Become More Consumer-Centric
As millennials gain more and more power over the healthcare system, the way services have been provided will change. Consumer-centric models are inevitable.
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Patient Safety
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4 Tips to Help Your Patients Protect Their Data When Using Health Apps
Even though patients are the ones who ultimately download the app, some healthcare providers feel a responsibility to educate them about the risks.
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Tips for Work
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4 Problems Facing Physician Assistants that Prevent the Profession from Advancing
These problems prevent both individual PAs from advancing their careers and limit the growth of the profession as a whole.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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4 Changes Every Healthcare Team Must Make to Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Here are a myriad of factors contribute to and drive nursing development and responsiveness to pandemics.
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Health Tech / HCIT
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3 Cost-Effective Ways to Improve Emergency Departments’ Quality of Care
Emergency departments are under more pressure than ever to provide specialized care, but doing so can seem daunting. Here, 3 cost-effective ways to boost your quality of care.
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