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5 Nursing Recruitment Strategies for 2025

CareAcademy Blog

Your ability to attract and retain top nursing professionals directly shapes patients' quality of care. That means agency competition for top talent will increase, and agencies need to fine-tune their nursing recruitment strategies. Nursing recruitment tools and job boards can help agencies connect with top talent.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. I think it’s around one in 12 nursing home patients But it’s a lot.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

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Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. nursing homes. Kevin: Yeah.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

So just by the nature of prognosis there, and I think, you know, this, this is really where I think the, the value of an interdisciplinary team, which we do so well in geriatrics and palliative care, is important in thinking about approach to these patients because perspective. Ashwin 23:46 Yeah. And I love the structured approach.