Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Most nurses are familiar with evidence-based practice (EBP), using research-proven healthcare techniques to enhance patient care and the nursing environment and practices. However, with all the positive results, EBP must consistently be taught or implemented in daily nursing practice. Why Use Evidence-based Practice ?

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? What does it mean to choose to be a specialist or generalist?

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 14, 2024

Cara Lunsford is the VP of Community at Nurse.com , fostering a community where nurses can find peer support, allies, professional opportunities, resources, and education. Lunsford is an important nursing leader, and Minority Nurse is pleased to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Working in healthcare can be emotionally and mentally taxing. Check out this list of books recommended for Nurses, and maybe you'll discover a new favorite. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse. I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 17, 2024

Robin Geiger, DNP, MSN, APRN, NP-C, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, is an accomplished, results-driven, board-certified nurse executive with over 20 years of hands-on clinical leadership experience. Geiger aims to increase resilience for healthcare providers, improve quality care, and create solid support systems. Talk about your role in nursing.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Your nursing career can feel like a busy airport, a marathon, a bus terminal, a rickshaw ride, or a taxi careering the wrong way down a one-way street. If your nursing career is an airport, and you're readying your plane on the runway in order to take flight, what's on your runway and who's behind the controls? Why didn't you?

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Nurse practitioners have been valuable members of the healthcare ecosystem for decades. As providers with increasing practice autonomy, NPs fill significant healthcare delivery gaps. “Patients report that nurse practitioners listen well and educate them more on their disease and treatment plan.” ” Dr.

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JUNE 27, 2022

There are some very basic things that nurses look for -- and deserve -- in the course of their nursing careers. I posit that there are " Three R's " of nursing, and I identify them as respect, remuneration, and recognition. As I stated in the previous paragraph, nurses lacked recognition of their importance for decades.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 8, 2023

Rohit Sagoo, senior lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and founder of British Sikh Nurses. The stereotypical view of nurses is a uniformed nurse working in a hospital. In 2016, British Sikh Nurses (BSN) was set up by its founder and director – Rohit Sagoo. Most grassroots nursing is an extension of formal work.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2024

Mental health nursing is a specialty within our profession that may be frequently overlooked and underappreciated. In this respect, the nurse’s role in the mental health of their fellow Americans is crucial. For nurses, the doors to new potential career paths are also opening.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 1, 2023

The notion of pivoting in your nursing career isn't a new one, and that readiness to pivot can emerge from a nimbleness of mind and a willingness to read the tea leaves of your career. Nurse, are you nimble? Let's say you're a nurse like me who worked in home health for the first decade of your career.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Nurses are everywhere. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don't shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. The Ubiquitous Nurse Where would the country be without nurses? They are legion.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

This special episode of The Nurse Keith Show titled "Perinatal Safety Nursing, Evidence-Based Practice, and Fostering a Culture of Safety," features guest Jeanette Zocco, a perinatal quality and safety specialist. Jeanette Zocco delves into the significance of safety protocols in perinatal nursing.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 23, 2022

As a nurse writer and blogger, I often use metaphor as a way to express deeper ideas about nursing and healthcare. In the past, I've explored the myths of Sisyphus and Hercules as they relate to nurses and the nursing profession, and my nature continues to point me towards metaphor as a tool for understanding.

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JUNE 6, 2022

In the world of nurses and nursing, it can feel like we are told what we “should” do with our careers much more often than what we “could” do. There are plenty of things we’re told we should or shouldn’t do or think as nurses — so many people seem to want to control how we view our careers and what choices we make.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In the course of your nursing career, you need allies who can help you elevate and advance your journey as a professional nurse. Allies are easier to come by than you think, but so many nurses don't think strategically about this important aspect of nursing career development.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Earning an advanced degree offers nurses immediate career benefits, including skills and knowledge they’ll apply to their work long before graduation. “NPs frequently operate in regions where access to healthcare services is limited and providing care to vulnerable populations.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the world of nursing, consistent rates of students graduating from nursing programs, becoming licensed, and successfully entering the workforce are critical to the long-term viability of the nursing profession and the healthcare system itself. In that regard, nursing education is a pipeline to the future.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Whether you're a nursing educator, researcher, nurse entrepreneur, or nurse clinician, creating a nursing career legacy is both recommended and essential. No matter your place in the nursing ecosystem, leaving something behind that has meaning for you will suffuse your career with a sense of accomplishment.

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JANUARY 16, 2023

Nurses, when you're sitting in a job interview for a new nursing position, do you feel like you have to constantly be on the defensive? A Case in Point Let's say you've been a nurse for four years, and you're in a job interview for a nursing position that you're really excited about. Let's unpack Penelope's response.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 2, 2022

This is the week that's set aside for nurses to be praised, thanked and stroked. Gratitude goes a long way in this world, so this is a week when clear and heartfelt gratitude for nurses can be found in many places, both expected and unexpected. How will you mark Nurses Week this year? Well, this is it, folks.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

When the New Year begins in earnest, many of us nurses start to consider what we'd like to accomplish in our personal lives and nursing careers. Looking back at the previous year will directly inform how you approach the twelve months ahead of you and your nursing career. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Minority nurses are uniquely positioned to leverage their influence to help combat racial disparities in the healthcare industry. As climate change increasingly and disproportionately affects people of color, empowering minority nurses through environmental health education is becoming imperative.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

APRIL 25, 2022

So, my nurse friend, it's twenty years in the future, and you have two more decades of nursing under your belt. Or you've poured your heart and soul into research, healthcare IT, entrepreneurship, or other professional endeavors. So that nurse caused another human being to choose the same profession for himself.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

JUNE 13, 2022

It's no secret that there's a multitude of unhappy nurses out there in the world. From mandatory overtime to unhealthy nurse-patient ratios, I admit there are very valid reasons for this seeming epidemic of discontent. So, is the nursing glass half-full or half-empty? I get that too. That's a given. Kudos to them.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

APRIL 17, 2023

Nurses, do you need some magic to get your nursing career back on track? Career development for nurses isn't rocket science, but manifesting some magic and joy for the betterment of your career is certainly possible if you want it. 2) Seek informational interviews with nurses doing work that piques your curiosity.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While much of the world has moved forward from the pandemic, the healthcare industry grapples with a significant shortage. The growing and less discussed shortage of nurse educators extends beyond the well-known nursing shortage. This critical gap threatens the future of nursing itself.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JUNE 11, 2024

I want to tackle compliance for hospice nurses and help them overcome challenges while maintaining compliance and upholding the principles of compassionate care at the end of life. The Regulatory Landscape in Hospice Nursing When I started as a hospice nurse, things felt less complicated.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 8, 2024

As nurses, there are times when we want to share our knowledge and passion with a broader audience. Whether educating patients on the importance of preventive care or advocating for better healthcare policies, our voices carry immense power. And who better to understand this journey than another nurse who has walked the same path?

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Some of us have nursing jobs that are feel like a bed of nails, and some of us nurses have jobs that feel like comfortable old shoes. Have you ever fallen into either of these categories in terms of your work experience as a nurse? The Nursing Bed of Nails A nursing job that feels like a bed of nails is just a bad fit.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In my work as a holistic career coach for nurses, there's one thing I've noticed more than anything else: mindset matters to your nursing and healthcare career. Caffrey and Caffrey wrote: Can nurses practice caring within a healthcare system that promotes codependency?

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Just the other day, I was drinking a latte (decaf I'm an unapologetic caffeine lightweight), and I realized that there's a very appropriate metaphor related to nurses, nursing, and a perfectly brewed latte. So, enough about the latte; you want to know how this relates to nursing in any way. Indulge me.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Patrice Little, DNP, FNP-BC, is a senior policy advisor for the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action , an initiative of AARP Foundation, AARP, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to improve America’s health through nursing. I like to tell people I took the scenic route of becoming a nurse.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 9, 2024

Psychiatric mental health registered nurses (RNs) and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) play vital roles in providing care in the behavioral health setting. What Does A Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Do? Collaborate with the interprofessional team and refer to other healthcare providers when needed.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

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? As you care for your body, you should also be caring for your nursing career. What kinds of nutrition does your career need?

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AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission. It is here that the archetype of the Nurse Warrior emerges.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Has your nursing career drifted off course? Going Adrift We all choose nursing as a career for a variety of reasons. For some, nursing is simply the prudent career choice in order to put food on the table for our families. For some, nursing is simply the prudent career choice in order to put food on the table for our families.

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