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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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Amedisys Making Progress on Turnover, Earnings Stability

Hospice News

The company has reduced its nurse turnover rate to the vicinity of 20%, surpassing the industry average, Brian Tanquilut, equity analyst for the investment banking firm Jefferies Financial Group, indicated in a note. With broader demand for home nursing remaining robust, gains in clinician capacity should translate to incremental growth.”.

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6 Creative Strategies To Solve the Nursing Shortage

Nurse.com

Midway through the pandemic, nurses began to recognize an unsettling future for our profession. Nurses were burning out, and our healthcare model was breaking. We watched as the first wave of nurses opted to retire early or leave the profession to maintain their sanity. Empty nurse roles are common in all areas of medicine.

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Stigma-Free Care for Monkeypox: What Nurses Need To Know

Nurse.com

Brian Thomas, RN, CCRN, a travel nurse working at a neuro intensive care unit in Los Angeles, was diagnosed with monkeypox in late June and said it was “pretty horrible.”. As nurses, we all need to talk about the vaccine and make the vaccine available to people who are at risk,” Ramos said. Brian Thomas, RN. “I Addressing the stigma.

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

Nurse.com

Three years ago, lessons about infection control in nursing were somewhat predictable. 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.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Involuntary Nursing Home Discharges/Transfers in Missouri

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. In certain cases, nursing homes may discharge or transfer a resident even if the resident does not consent to the discharge or transfer – this is known as an “involuntary discharge” or an “involuntary transfer.” 19 CSR 30-82.050(3).

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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. He’s a geriatrician.