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The Top 3 Podcast Episodes and Blog Posts You Loved in 2024

Healthy Workforce Institute

Throughout the year, weve been honored to share strategies, resources, and solutions with you whether through our podcast episodes or blog posts These resources have been just a few ways weve helped you create and sustain a healthy work culture. Collaboration reduces conflict, improves morale, and leads to better care.

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Measles: Amplifying the Public Trust in Nurses to Address the Outbreaks

AJN Off the Charts

What can nurses do? Recognizing that nurses remain members of the most trusted profession, what are some actions nurses can take to address this outbreak and its underlying causes? This current outbreak situation is a reminder for nurses to ensure their family members, even those not living within the same home, are vaccinated.

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Climate change and nursing; catalysing sustainability in healthcare

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This weeks blog has been written by Ebenezer Akore Yeboah, a nurse and PhD candidate at Coventry University, UK, specialising in nursing, climate change, and sustainability. The review findings showed that a significant proportion of nurses were unaware of how their daily practices impact climate change.

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When Nurses Are Caught Between Hospital Policy and Frustrated Family Members

AJN Off the Charts

I was a little anxious because I had already heard that this had been an issue overnight and that the parents had pushed back on efforts by another nurse to hold them to the policy. The leash for stressed and grieving family members is inevitably longer than the leash for stressed nurses, a reality that is both understandable and complicated.

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Growing the nursing workforce in the United Kingdom: Aspiration and reality

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Introduction This week’s blog is by Rebecca Garcia and Irtiza Qureshi. The nursing workforce in the United Kingdom (UK) has been under capacity for a long time [1]. According to the latest published figures from NHS Digital (2024) [2], there are currently 34,709 qualified nursing vacancies in England.

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Norovirus, a Formidable and Underappreciated Hazard: What Nurses Need to Know

AJN Off the Charts

A symptomatic nurse or health care worker can unknowingly spread the virus to multiple patients through direct contact or via contaminated surfaces. Nursing considerations for prevention and response. Ruth’s last post for this blog was “ The Critical Role of Nurses in IV Fluid Conservation.”

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In Times of Overwhelm as a Nurse and Citizen, Begin with One Intentional Act at a Time

AJN Off the Charts

Hui-Wen (Alina) Sato, MSN, MPH, RN, CCRN With the recent devastation and loss around our local Los Angeles wildfires as well as our countrys political disarray, one of the most difficult things about trying to remain empathetic, engaged, and informed as an individual and a nurse has been a sense of utter overwhelmedness.

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