Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Mary Howard, DNP, RN, NEA-BC is the executive director of The Ohio State University East Hospital and is responsible for operations, strategic planning, and program development. In February, we’ll highlight healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 7, 2023

Wright is an author, teacher, international speaker, and nationally certified nurse and was recently named a 2022 Nurse of the Year for the state of Maryland by the Maryland Hospital Association and The Daily Record. I started as a staff nurse on a med/surg unit in 1979. Talk about the roles you held in nursing.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 14, 2024

The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing. With my fellow nurses at Children ’ s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), we started the first Supportive Care Committee to ensure nurses had an environment available to help cope with job stress.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

American Nurses Association (ANA) Chief Nursing Officer, Debbie Hatmaker, PhD, RN, FAAN -Earlier this year, the ANA urged Congress to address the nurse staffing crisis and the work environment issues. What are some questions to ask before accepting a job at a Magnet hospital?

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Minority Nurse

MAY 15, 2024

This series is a platform that showcases healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making substantial changes in the nursing field. I thrived in these high-intensity environments, gaining expertise and honing my skills while providing critical care to patients in need.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This time spent in the lounge has equated to more than 10,800-bed hours saved, the equivalent of 62 additional beds – a total game-changer, particularly for an urban hospital. Mercier showcased this success at the New York Organization for Nursing Leadership last September. Talk about your role in nursing.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 8, 2024

How to show you can add to a school’s diversity If you are an immigrant to the United States, the child of immigrants, or someone whose ethnicity is underrepresented in the States, your response to “How will you add to the diversity of our class/community?” It was a living, organic whole. It’s about who you are – at the core.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jude Children’s Research Hospital had low nurse turnover and a large pool of applicants from which to choose. Since then, despite the hospital’s efforts, nurses have been experiencing the same fatigue phenomenon seen at hospitals nationwide. Yet, they leave the profession at a higher rate than long-term nurses.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What do you look forward to most at the helm of one of nursing’s most influential organizations? It’s just great to be leading the largest NP organization that represents over 355,000 nurse practitioners across the U.S. And I give kudos to my colleagues who are on units in hospitals. Can you talk about that?

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 10, 2024

If you Google news items for “Magnet hospitals,” you’ll see an almost endless list of hospitals announcing that they’ve recently earned their Magnet status once again, sometimes for multiple years. In 2002, a final name change to the Magnet Recognition Program was initiated, and here we are some 22 years later.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 12, 2024

The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing. To some extent, people may call me crazy, but I miss the camaraderie of working in that team environment and patient interactions. How long have you worked in the nursing field?

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the other reasons I decided to do my show is that I was speaking at many nursing conventions at nursing conferences and hospitals. I don’t advocate for these hospitals. I have whole units that come–groups of 30, and they make t-shirts. I advocate for healthier work environments for nurses. I’m a nurse.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Specifically, in addition to an “easy-button” on-ramp to Copilot AI for providers to click on, the device has faster performance supported by a new Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that could help make their work more productive with less friction – and thus support clinicians’ well-being? Let me explain from a global to a local lens….

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In February, we’ve been highlighting healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing. And I got pulled down to the labor and delivery unit when I was a patient care tech, going through nursing school, and fell in love. I couldn’t believe that I loved it. I was sold.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Shelise Valentine, RNC, MSN, C-EFM, CPPS, CPHRM, is the Director of Clinical Education, Healthcare Risk Advisors, part of TDC Group and chairs nursing, co-chairs obstetric and simulation initiatives, and directs risk management and obstetric education for insured hospital clients to improve patient safety and reduce malpractice risk.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

This series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making significant changes in the nursing field. As the director of nursing operations at a world-class pediatric hospital, I hold a multifaceted role encompassing numerous responsibilities.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

MARCH 9, 2024

In this month’s blog post, we will be discussing the Medical Secretary position. A Medical Secretary is an important member of a health care team who performs administrative and other supportive tasks in a variety of healthcare settings such as hospitals and doctor’s offices. What Does a Medical Secretary Do?

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

The wellness platform, called DARWIN, was developed by Delos , a real estate and technology company with a mission of improving indoor environments for people where we live, work, sleep and play. Speaking of plants, there are many hanging plants throughout the home that are organized as living art on walls and in windows.

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Accepted Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Many have a semester or two of volunteering in a hospital playroom for a few hours a month. However, it’s not easy to convince an admissions committee that you want to pursue a medical career if you haven’t spent sufficient time in a clinical environment. Volunteer at your local hospital or free clinic. How many hours is enough?

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MedAssistantEDU.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Medical assistants are the basic healthcare units and vital key members of any healthcare unit. Depending upon the working facilities like physician’s offices, clinics, hospitals, or other healthcare facilities, medical assistants have to fulfill several job responsibilities.

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Doximity

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So, I grew up in this environment where I felt like nothing was off the table. So, ChenMed only partners with insurance companies who allow the organization to take on full risk, so then the conversation went further. Dr. Syed: Well, the pandemic had a huge impact on, of course, my life personally, and our organization.

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In addition, he has also served in numerous volunteer roles for professional organizations. This organization has been around for that long a period of time from, I guess it was a different type of a research group, but predominantly run by physicians who were from osteopathic medicine and who were trained as army physicians.

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Accepted Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And so I think incorporating that into our learning structure, our learning environment is most helpful for our students. 7:18] So when COVID hit us, we had to all pivot, and we were… unfortunately, many students were unable to actually get into organizations to do any shadowing or community service or volunteerism.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2024

health care stakeholders are still dealing as this post goes live on the Health Populi blog. Internal Audit is uniquely positioned in an organization and getting the opportunity to see how a company operates and, most importantly, how C-Suites prioritize solutions, has been one of the best decisions I’ve made on the road to becoming a CISO.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For the last two years, hospitals have been reliant on travel nurses, with the demand for travel nurses skyrocketing. However, turnover has recently begun to increase, and hospitals and health systems are facing a turning point in addressing the staffing shortage crisis. Minority Nurse chatted with Beth Brooks , Ph.D.,

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With almost 23 years in the field of nursing, McNulty has been able to help other nurses, both novice and experienced, to evolve into their roles on the busy medical-surgical/telemetry unit, now transitioning to step-down. I started my nursing career at Johns Hopkins Hospital and did agency work a few years later.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 20, 2023

And just like the trends in general higher education, nursing schools have become less accessible, as many face faculty shortages , limits on enrollment, and limited space for clinical training at teaching hospitals. Find an organization that shares your values. Look at the organization’s mission, vision, and values.

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Accepted Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Show Summary Let’s learn about the newest medical school in the United States in this interview with Dr. Caleb Marsh, the Director of Recruitment and Pathway Programs of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Not only that, but Frist is still accepting applications for its inaugural class matriculating this summer.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

If you’re in health care and don’t live under a rock, you have probably heard that United Health Group (UHG) has acquired PatientsLikeMe (PLM). Get a cup of coffee and sit back, because this is a long one – not the usual short and sweet entry that each of us endeavors to craft on our respective blogs. But the U.S.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

PacifiCare, the most significant hospital sponsored health plan owned by the Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California, was taken public in 1995. United then bought Sierra Health Plan based in Nevada in 2007, including its large captive medical group, its first medical group acquisition.

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