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Meet Nancy Colobong Smith, American Nephrology Nurses Association’s President-Elect 2023-24

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After being an assistant manager for several years, I realized that the parts of my role I enjoyed most were providing education, mentoring, clinical care, and improving systems. My first certification was the Certification in Nephrology Nursing (CNN) which I earned in 2001 because I knew I wanted to be a nephrology nurse long term.

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How To Become a Nurse Leader

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Nurses who have practiced for several years, gained solid experience in one or more care settings, improved their skills through continued education, and mentored other nurses are leaders — even if they do not have a job title specifically designated as a leadership role. But how do they take that step? What is a nurse leader?

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

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Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. As a nurse, I have worked in an acute care setting caring for lung transplant patients.

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

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Not only will additional resources improve nurses’ ability to care for their patients with greater skill, continuing education and clinical training will help them see themselves as an instrumental part of the healthcare industry.

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Home Health Specializations Boost Performance, Bottom Line

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Aligning with shifts in patient acuity levels and PDGM reimbursements requires an agency to look at current internal processes, assess current staff, and retrain or hire staff with specialty certifications. Specializations Can Enhance Care Team Competency.

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Celebrate National Nurses Week — and Read Our Nurse Salary and Job Satisfaction Report

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Our award-winning, accredited healthcare education and workforce enablement solutions provide professional development, continuing education, compliance, and certification pathways for your nurses, helping to support their job satisfaction, retention, and well-being.

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IHS Health IT Modernization Program: The Case for a Better Learning Management Platform

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A quality healthcare learning management platform can also track and assess staff learning outcomes and skills and provide paths to certification. Support staff retention and development by offering professional development, such as continuing education and leadership training.