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Nurses caring for people in a social care setting

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

As we move to a more integrated health and social care system in the UK 3 , social care nurses have a pivotal role to play and are ideally placed to lead and implement change specifically within the nursing/care home sector. The Queen’s Nursing Institute (2021) Care Home Nurse. Available at: [link].

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Nursing Work Environments: A Brief Guide

Nurse.com

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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New Year, New Home Care Wishes for 2022

Hearts for Home Care

2021 has been an incredible year for home care advocates, who continued to discover that meeting with legislators and sharing their personal home care stories did not have to occur in-person only. In-home nurses, home health aides, and other caregivers are the backbone of the home health care industry.

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Hearts for Home Care Brings Legislative and Public Awareness to over 43 Million Viewers

Hearts for Home Care

Hearts for Home Care has had a busy year, working to secure public and legislative awareness to home care challenges across the industry.

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

Nurse.com

Perhaps one of the most impacted was nursing homes and long-term care facilities. It is in our patient homes, nursing homes, some acute rehab centers, hospices. As COVID-19 put a spotlight on nurses and infection control, nursing schools saw an impact on applications. during 2021.

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

GeriPal

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.