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Real Talk
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Wise Word of the Month: Credence
What does giving credence to imposter syndrome mean? How can nurses overcome self-doubt and insecurity in leadership? Here we unpack the historical usage of credence and its application to nursing.
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Education
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Naloxone Use to Prevent Deaths from Opioid Overdose
Even as the world and the country have been focused on COVID during the pandemic, the opioid epidemic rages on and has only worsened.
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Mental Health
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Research Suggests Adding Yoga to Prescribed Migraine Treatments May Increase Effectiveness
When it comes to migraine headaches, heavy workloads, emotional stress and rotating night shifts can create a perfect storm of triggers for healthcare professionals.
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Mental Health
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Reading Pain in the Face of a Patient With Dementia
When cognitively impaired patients are in pain, they may be unable to verbalize it, and in the presence of ongoing agitation, family and caregivers may not recognize it.
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Mental Health
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Psych Interventions Control Pain in Older Adults
A new study has found that patients with non-cancer chronic pain can benefit from psychological interventions.
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Mental Health
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New Study Offers Insight into Best Treatments for People at Risk of Suicide
As the suicide rate in the US continues to grow, it’s crucial that healthcare providers, regardless of specialty, understand the do’s and don’ts of treat patients at risk of suicide.
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Data / Informatics
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New Study Explores the Psychological Harm of Restraints on ED Patients
With agitated and violent patients, providers often have no choice but to use restraints. That’s why new research is exploring the effects of restraints and how to avoid using them in the future.
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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New Drug Formulation Calms ADHD Kids in the AM and All Day Too
Research indicates that time processing is altered in children with ADHD, and their ability to stay task-focused through the normal series of morning routines is largely impaired.
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Mental Health
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More than Half Gen Z Nurses Burnt Out, Planning to Leave Nursing
One in three nurses reported they “are not emotionally healthy,” including almost half of all nurses under 25 years old
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Tips for Work
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Balancing Two Full-Time Roles: Working and Parenting
Working parents often experience a rollercoaster of emotions as they navigate balancing a career with family responsibilities.
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Kids Whose Parents Use Opioids Are Twice As Likely to Attempt Suicide
In the 15 years since the suicide rate among young people in the U.S. began increasing, opioid use and abuse among adults also has sharply risen. Turns out there may be a connection between the two
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Covid-19
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How Pandemics Affect Healthcare Workers’ Mental Health
Past pandemics may help us understand the mental health problems we face.
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Education
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How Nursing Schools Are Contributing to America’s Mental Health Crisis
There aren’t nearly enough practitioners to address Americans’ mental health care needs—and the problem begins in nursing school.
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Mental Health
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Nursing Mental Health and Well-being
Lavender Psychiatry is rethinking mental health.
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Patient Safety
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Migraine May be Risk Factor for Future Dementia
During the past few years, researchers have been looking at possible associations between the two conditions, and it appears that a long-term impact of migraine could be a higher risk of dementia
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Education
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How Nurses Can Uncover Clues to Eating Disorders
An estimated 30 million Americans develop eating disorders over a lifetime, and you may be surprised who they are. They’re not just teenagers. Would you recognize someone with an eating disorder?
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Quality & Performance Improvement
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For Nurses, Hearing ‘Thank You’ at Work Boosts Much More than Their Mood
A simple expression of gratitude can have a powerful ripple effect, especially on days when the job feels completely thankless.
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Job Tips
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Easiest Screening Tools for Assessing Suicide Risk: 7 Tips to Administer Them
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the U.S., but many providers, regardless of their point of care, don’t consider screening patients for suicide risk their responsibility.
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Real Talk
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Thoughts on Grief Part III: I’m Happy Because I Cry So Much
What if releasing our tears and sharing our grief with others opens up space to fully experience our joy?
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How Your Food Choices Are Affecting Your Mental Wellbeing
The old adage, “you are what you eat,” has never seemed truer than it is today. Research is showing food’s impact on inflammation levels, mental health, sleep, and more.
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Data / Informatics
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Identifying Anxiety Disorders
More than 40 million adults in the United States have an anxiety disorder, which equates to nearly one in five American adults
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Thoughts on Grief Part Two: The Greatest Gift We Can Give One Another
What does it look like to give your full presence to someone? Ultimately it is your presence shared with me, and my presence shared with you, that will heal us all.
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Education
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Ease Adolescent Anxiety with Mind-Body Care
Rates of anxiety disorders, the most common adolescent mental health conditions in the U.S., are increasing. Treatments including pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy can be costly, and are not panaceas.
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Real Talk
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Thoughts on Grief: What Happens When We Begin to Lose the Ones We Love?
In my life I can safely say I was taught how to acquire things, how to consume, how to have and to hold, however, I was never taught what to do when I began to lose what I loved.
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Teens
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Covid-19 Pandemic Amplified an Existing Teen Mental Health Crisis
Many news stories over the past two years have emphasized the mental health toll of Covid on healthcare workers first and foremost, but also parents of school-age children, teachers, low-wage workers…
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Data / Informatics
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Christmas Eve is the Peak Time for This Surprising Health Condition
Mental health and financial challenges swell around Christmas, but does the stress and merriment of the season take a toll on one’s physical body?
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Covid-19
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Are My Symptoms a Sign of Distress or Covid-19?
Here's how to tell whether you're experiencing psychological symptoms or those of coronavirus.
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Community
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Addressing Substance Use Disorders In Nurses
Drug overdose deaths increased by nearly a third from April 2020 to April 2021, according to data the CDC published late last year, with overdose deaths exceeding 100,000 in a single year for the firs
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Tips for Work
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6 Tips to Help Breast Cancer Patients Through Depression
Here, two mental health professionals who manage breast cancer patients provide some guidance for clinicians unfamiliar with this journey.
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Stories From The Frontlines
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Turning Pain Into Purpose
The story of a patient that changed my life.
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Education
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8 Ways Healthcare Providers Can Prevent Gun Violence Among Their Patients
Read the news on any given day and you’re bound to see a headline about another shooting.
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Burnout Prevention
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Tools for Successfully Managing Night Shift with Kids
If you are considering going to nights, but wonder if it’s possible, let this post put you at ease.
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Tips for Work
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Six Ways to Manage a Migraine at Work
Emotional stress, heavy workloads and rotating night shift sleep disturbances are among the biggest risk factors for healthcare workers who tend to get migraines.
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Burnout Prevention
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Ten Things Nursing School Didn’t Teach Me That Would Have Helped Me Combat Burnout Early On
You are not alone.
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Nurse Safety
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5 Top Things to Know About Nurse Bullies — And How to Stop Them
Some 85 percent of nurses are bullied. Both nurses and healthcare administrators have an obligation to stop this behavior.
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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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Patient Safety
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What You Need to Know About 988
As of July 16th, people across the U.S. can call 988 on landlines or cell phones to be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or a similar crisis hotline or call center.
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