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Exploring Career Pathways: From Nurse Aide to Advanced Healthcare Roles

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The Foundation: Starting as a Nurse Aide Nurse aides play a vital role in patient care, often serving as the primary point of contact for patients in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health settings. They assist with daily activities, monitor patient conditions, and provide emotional support.

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The Benefits Of Taking A Break

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or fewer hours were able to escape patient-care duties during a break, compared with 46.7 And the percentage of breaks free of patient-care duties decreased to 30 percent when nurses worked 20 or more consecutive hours.” In fact, the numbers went down. Forty-nine percent of nurses working shifts of 8.5 hours or more.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Become a Nurse Practitioner

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Work-Life Balance As a nurse practitioner, you have greater flexibility with your schedule, creating a greater work-life balance. If working a clinic-based job, you can often control your daily schedule, take off to attend family events, and not work weekends. After reading the article above, I hope you consider becoming an NP today.

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Innovative Nurse Practitioners Can Turn the Tide

Minority Nurse

With a growing shortage of primary care physicians , the need for NPs could not be more dire. When NPs approach patient care innovatively, everyone benefits from their creativity. “We’ve created blended and flexible schedules and salary structures that challenge the norms.

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What Travel Nurses Taught Us About the Staffing Crisis

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The latest American Nurses Foundation (ANF) Workplace Pulse survey revealed that nearly half (49%) of direct patient care nurses intend to leave their position, 19% intend on leaving in the next six months. A lower patient census for RNs on travel contracts has led to a flurry of travel contract re-negotiations with hospitals.

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Microlearning in Healthcare Training: Enhancing Skills and Empowering Professionals

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Front-line staff in post-acute care settings are constantly on the go — from room to room in a skilled nursing facility or from home to home, caring for people with various needs. Clearly, fitting all of this into their busy work schedules is a challenge. How can you use microlearning in post-acute care?

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A “Great Re-Set” for Telehealth and Remote Monitoring? Panda Health Says That’s a “Yes”

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The fast-growing adoption of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring from the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospitals and health systems launching new or expanding existing virtual care programs to accommodate a new reality for work-flow and patient care.