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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Daily Nurse

Your nursing career is like your body. What nutritional deficits does your nursing career demonstrate? Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? It needs to be fed, watered, exercised, and well-rested to function optimally. What kinds of nutrition does your career need?

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Feeding Your Nursing Career

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

Your nursing career is a lot like your body; it needs to be fed, watered, exercised, and well-rested in order to function optimally. What nutritional deficits does your nursing career demonstrate? Are you willing to feed your career as well as you feed your own body? What kinds of nutrition does your career need?

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010.

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Specialized SNF Clinicians Can Help Improve Care Quality at End of Life

Hospice News

Specialized nursing facility clinicians, or SNFists, have a strong potential to reduce hospitalizations and improve quality of care at the end of life, including access to hospice. The work of SNFists uniquely impacted the care of nursing home residents during their last 90 days of life, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

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Finding Nursing Career Inspiration

Daily Nurse

Nursing does not have a reputation for being generally easy work, and a career as a nurse presents many potential challenges. Long hours, significant risks to one’s health and safety, work-based stress, challenging colleagues and patients — there’s plenty that can try a nurse’s patience and stretch compassion to the limit.

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How Many Nursing ‘Shoulds’ Are You Shouldering? 

Daily Nurse

When you sat in nursing school, you likely had people telling you what to do. “ Everyone will likely have an opinion about your nursing career and your life as a nurse and healthcare professional, but the most valuable opinions are the ones people keep to themselves and only offer when asked. first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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Nurse Residencies: Norm or Exception?

Minority Nurse

When new graduate nurses enter the labor market, many will clamor for the chance to land a position in new nurse residency programs. Presented as a game that only a lucky few can win, new nurse residencies provide great career-launching benefits for a small cohort of novice nurses. Why should these new nurses be coddled?

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