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Nurse Safety
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The Impact of PPE on Your Well-Being
A new study on the impact of PPE on healthcare professionals shows that the number and the variety of issues HCPs experience increases as their time wearing PPE without a break.
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Health Tech / HCIT
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Revolutionizing Infant Lumbar Punctures with the SMöLTAP Device: A Game-Changer in Pediatric Care
The SMöLTAP cradle is not just a procedural enhancement; it’s a complete restructuring of the infant spinal tap experience.
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Tips for Work
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5 Tips to Ace Your Nursing School Exams
We’ve got the best tips to help you conquer nursing school this semester
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Burnout Prevention
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What’s It Really Like To Be the Only PCP in a Small, Rural Town?
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are increasing access to healthcare for underserved populations, largely because they’re much more likely to work in rural settings than physicians.
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Mental Health
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The Most Common Causes of Burnout
Clinician burnout is a pervasive problem that’s hurting patients — and healthcare leaders must step up to fix it. And, here's where they can start.
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Community
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Operation Nightingale: Villains & Victims
At a time when the profession is grappling with diversifying its workforce, Operation Nightingale means we all lose
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Lifestyle
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Four Ways ‘The Class’ Challenges the Way Nurses Think About Exercising
Give yourself the gift of being mindful of your mental and physical health, and check out what ‘The Class’ has to offer today.
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Mental Health
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Worried About the Mental Health of a Fellow HCP?
Learn to recognize the signs — especially those that fly under the radar — and how to start an open, honest conversation with the individual.
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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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Community
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Being a Well-Prepared Nurse
September is Preparedness Month, Food Safety Education Month, and Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. All three campaigns alert nurses to prepare for emergencies – for themselves and patients
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Community
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Heavy Backpacks
As we fight for a brighter future in nursing, let us remind each other that we carry heavy backpacks, and it is okay to take them off because we are worthy of being cared for as we care for others.
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Community
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Aren’t We So Lucky?
As a nurse, I wonder what it would take for us to leave work and say, “How lucky are we that we get to do this job?”
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New Research Reveals Another Reason to Keep Burnout at Bay — Your Heart Health
If it wasn’t enough that burnout can ruin your career and personal life, new research shows it condition can also harm your physical health.
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Mindful Self-Care + Meaning Made = Higher Professional Quality of Life
Engaging in mindful self-care activities have a direct and positive effect contribute to professional quality of life. Here is how you can make it work for you.
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Food
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Spice Up Your Diet With Kimchi!
Fermented foods like kimchi have been found to decrease inflammation and to diversify the gut microbiome. This results in decreasing negative symptoms of many gastrointestinal disorders.
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Burnout Prevention
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The Dance of Courageous Care, Step 2: To Soften
The dance of softening is a courageous dance of vulnerability, of honesty, of learning to connect our minds and bodies so they are aligned and not separate. It is a dance of leaving fight or flight as
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Burnout Prevention
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How to Protect Nurses from Burnout? Boost Self-Esteem
All too often, nurses, may exit the job sooner than anticipated due to burnout. Now a study suggests there are some psychological factors that can help protect nurses against burnout.
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Mental Health
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How to Identify If You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out
If you’re feeling constantly fatigued, unusually irritable, and physically tense at work, you may be experiencing burnout. Here's how to know and what you can do.
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Mental Health
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How to Help Combat Rising Suicide Rates Among Care Providers
The what and why leading to the rise in suicide rates among frontline care providers--especially nurses, as well as what to look for and how to help your peers (and yourself).
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Lifestyle
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How to Cope With Grief
Experiencing grief as a care provider is a normal response. However, not managing it has potentially severe consequences for your own health, as well as that of your patients.
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Community
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How Practicing Cultural Humility Can Help Eliminate Implicit Bias
No matter how hard you try, your personal biases will affect your patient interactions at some point. Asking these questions can help you give your patients the respect they deserve.
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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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Patient Safety
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How Nurses Perceive Job Difficulty Affects Patient Care
How nurses perceive the difficulty of their workday plays an important role in patient care regardless of the size of the nurses’ caseload or patient acuity.
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How Severe is Your Burnout?
This exercise can help you assess how close to burnout you really are and these tips can help you move past it
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Lifestyle
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Great Books for the Beach or the Bed
Beach weather isn’t quite here yet for most of the country, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a head start on some beach reads.
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The More Proactive You Are, the More Successful a HCP You Might Be
Proactive people tend to create positive outcomes, and during the pandemic you might be able to thrive. Here's why
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Real Talk
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Paying It Forward: A Personal Mission
My job as a coach isn’t to tell you where you need to be. You’re the driver of your journey. I’m the one riding in the front seat, holding the map, helping you to explore your own path to get there.
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Burnout Prevention
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How to Identify If You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out
If you’re feeling constantly fatigued, unusually irritable, and physically tense at work, you may be experiencing burnout. Here's how to know and what you can do.
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Tips for Work
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How Practicing Cultural Humility Can Help Eliminate Implicit Bias
No matter how hard you try, your personal biases will affect your patient interactions at some point. Asking these questions can help you give your patients the respect they deserve — but you might be
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Community
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Thoughts on Grief Part IV: We Heal in Relationships
As we sit with ourselves and others who are grieving, it is important to remember that grief is not linear, nor do you neatly jump from one stage to another; it is unique for each person.
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Covid-19
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How Covid-19 Changed Nurse Life
Three hundred nurses were surveyed about life during the pandemic. Here's what they shared about hours, workplace, and career.
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Burnout Prevention
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Finding Ways to Improve Work-Life Balance
While many of us may have dreamed of our future careers when we were growing up, we probably didn’t dream of being married to our jobs or having them completely take over our lives.
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Lifestyle
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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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ICU Providers Experiencing Rising Stress Levels, Survey Shows
Healthcare providers are dealing with significantly high levels of stress related to Covid-19.
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Lifestyle
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Identify Your Ideal Work-Life Balance
While many of us may have dreamed of our future careers when we were growing up, we probably didn’t dream of being married to our jobs or having them completely take over our lives.
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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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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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Community
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Dancing Till I Drop
This year I am skipping scarcity and embracing abundance by acknowledging and accepting all the ways I am enough in my perfectly imperfect humanity.
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Burnout Prevention
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8 Changes to Make at Work to Prevent Burnout as a Healthcare Provider
Free time as an HCP is hard to come by. Here are a few ways to reset and find your motivation while at work.
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Advocacy
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Seven Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Healthcare Workers’ Psychological Safety
In a profession often subject to bullying, workplace violence and burnout, ensuring psychological safety is paramount.
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