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Nurse-scientists shouldn’t have to choose between research and caring for patients

Leave a Comment / Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

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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How to Revive a Stalled Nursing Career Without Burning Out

Leave a Comment / Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Cheryl Conklin

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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Who Will Teach Me How to Be an NP?

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

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

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Prompt CPR Saves Lives, Regardless Of Who Performs It

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

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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How a nursing school relocation to Duke’s campus combats the nursing shortage

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

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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Health systems double down on high school healthcare education

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

Mariah Taylor (Email) Becker’s Hospital Review Healthcare education in high schools exploded in 2024. Becker’s reported on around 19 systems that expanded, launched or improved their educational partnerships in 2024. Some systems rely on weeklong courses or internships, while others are delving into the creation of healthcare tracks that are taken alongside the normal high

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Investing in Preceptor Education – A Necessity for the Future of Nursing

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

By Emily Berta | HealthLeaders Being a preceptor is more than teaching someone the tasks of the job, says this nurse educator. KEY TAKEAWAYS Preceptor Training is Essential: Proper training goes beyond teaching clinical tasks; it fosters mentorship, communication, and a supportive learning environment. New Nurses Should Not Precept Too Soon: Assigning nurses with only

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The life and career of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

Zoe Owrutsky, PhD Haymarket Medical Network Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a psychiatrist best known for her pioneering work that transformed our understanding of death, dying, and grief. In her ground-breaking book On Death and Dying (1969), she introduced the “five stages of grief” (also known as the Kübler-Ross model), which has since become a cornerstone

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The 10 fastest-growing skills in healthcare: LinkedIn

Business, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

By: Kristin Kuchno Becker’s Hospital Review Health information management is the fastest-growing skill in healthcare, according to a March 19 LinkedIn News post. LinkedIn analyzed healthcare skills professionals are adding to their profiles and those that companies are hiring for more frequently to determine skill growth. Here are the 10 fastest-growing skills in healthcare, per

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‘It’s on us’: How health systems navigate NP education gaps

Nurse Practitioner, Nursing Education / Ruth Geide

Mariah Taylor (Email) – Becker’s Health In 2024, nurse practitioner education programs made national news over their education practices. Specifically, critics were concerned that NPs were not receiving the necessary education to maintain patient safety — but healthcare leaders tell a different story. “NP education doesn’t end at graduation. It starts there,” Todd Roark, MBA,

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