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Nursing Work Environments: A Brief Guide

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Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

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are offering models of care for children with medical complexity that aim to reduce readmissions and healthcare costs by supporting families who care for these children at home. Nurses’ Role With Medically Complex Children. Children’s hospitals in the U.S. Evidence Is Building to Support Hospital-Based Models.

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Change Is Now the “Constant” for Nurses in Infection Control

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The pandemic erased that complacency and enhanced education for nurses and infection control in unique ways. The renewed focus on how infection control in nursing is presented to healthcare professionals is among the major lessons learned since 2020. It is in our patient homes, nursing homes, some acute rehab centers, hospices.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. Summary Transcript Summary.