Lorie Brown, RN, JD EmpoweredNurses.org We have all heard that you have the right to remain silent, anything that you say can and will be used against you. However, we tend to forget this saying when it comes to being asked to speak to our supervisors or even investigators. We want to tell the truth […]
By: Paige Twenter – Becker’s Clinical Leadership The National Council Licensure Examination pass rate for registered nurses dropped to 71.6% in the first quarter of 2025, down from 79.1% in the same period in 2024. The decline affected U.S.-educated and internationally educated nurses, as well as both first-time and repeat test takers, according to a
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By: Laura Dyrda – Becker’s Health IT Artificial intelligence is a powerful technology changing many aspects of healthcare delivery. Some nurses fear the risk of relying too much on it; others see big potential for reducing administrative burden. Nurse leaders at the nation’s biggest health systems and smallest community hospitals alike are working with their
Lori Brown, JD, RN EmpoweredNurses.org It’s an unsettling thought, isn’t it? To consider that in the act of simply doing our job—communicating with patients, families, and colleagues—we might unintentionally put ourselves at risk. A casual comment can be perceived as a definitive medical opinion. A shared moment of empathy can be construed as overstepping professional
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Lorie Brown RN, JD EmpoweredNurses.org In our quest to address the nursing shortage, innovative solutions are essential. However, we must tread carefully when these solutions involve our youth. The recent case of Elliana Tenenbaum, who became a registered nurse at 16, and Indiana’s legislation to allow LPN training in high school, prompt a critical examination
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This system stifles innovation and leaves gaps in care unaddressed By Kathryn Connell, Eleanor Turi, and Mollie Hobensack The authors are all Ph.D.-R.N.s. Every day, nurses make decisions that shape not only how patients recover but how they experience illness. Take patients recovering from sepsis, who are often under sedation on a ventilator. Evidence urges
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Image by Freepik How to Revive a Stalled Nursing Career Without Burning Out A stalled career doesn’t announce itself with a bang. It creeps in through exhaustion, cynicism, and the dread of another shift that feels like all the ones before it. You tell yourself it’s just a rough patch—until six months pass and nothing’s
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by Jessica Reeves, MSN, MPH, FNP Medpage Today School prepares us to be novices. The tricky part is that the type of people who are drawn to be nurse practitioners (NPs) are often highly motivated overachievers; the thought of being a novice is hard to live with. Add to that the fact that becoming an
By: Dennis Thompson HealthDay News Key Takeaways CPR will save lives regardless of who performs it Heart attack victims given CPR had the same short-term risk of death if receiving it from a bystander or a paramedic Their long-term risk of death was similar as well It doesn’t matter if CPR is performed by a
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Amid a nationwide nursing shortage, a November 2024 Health Resources and Services Administration nurse workforce projection estimated that the shortages will be felt until 2037. By: Madeline Ashley Becker’s Clinical Leadership The HRSA projection also found that North Carolina has one of the largest nursing shortfalls projected, at 22% by 2037. To combat this, Durham,
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