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What matters to your nurses? The ability to schedule their jobs around their lives, says a survey of 811 RNs.
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In the last issue of Hospital Recruiting Update, we reported on how men are underrepresented in nursing in general, and among nurses working at the bedside in particular. Getting them interested was on the minds of many of the people interviewed for the story. But at the University of Texas at Houstons school of nursing, getting men interested in nursing is something they are good at.
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Health care is a stressful line of work, and employees often get burned out. In normal circumstances, thats not necessarily a crisis. But when there are shortages in nursing, pharmacy, imaging, and other areas of health care, it becomes paramount to try to keep staff happy just to keep them on staff. Thats something that the leadership at Clarian Health Partners in Indianapolis knew.
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A new study of 71 hospitals shows that more than a third of employees time is spent doing wasteful work from filling out multiple forms for the same task to searching for misplaced supplies or records.
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Is putting packets together a drag? This HR department doesnt have to. Tired of answering questions about benefits changes? St. Marys Health System in Athens, GA isnt. Working with one of its insurance carriers, it moved from a manual to an automated enrollment process for its 1,200 employees, scheduled work time, one-on-one meetings with staff to explain the benefits and answer questions, and even showed the employees what each option meant to their paychecks to the penny.
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ED nurses at Yale-New Haven (CT) Medical Center suspected that a 61-year-old man complaining of dizziness, with a history of high blood pressure and noncompliance with medications, was unable to pay for his prescriptions.
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Wouldnt you love for ED nurses to have a quick, easy way to access department policies, updates, drip charts, dosing protocols, telephone numbers, and procedures for infrequent ordering processes?
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Do you find that paper resources such as measurement tapes, dosage charts, and clinical pathways often are missing in your ED? If so, try enclosing these items in two panels of an 1/8-inch thick plastic, suggests Teri Howick, RN, nurse educator for the ED at McKay Dee Hospital in Ogden, UT.
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