nurse burnout
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Nurses’ Mental Health Is Improving, But It’s Still Far From Where It Needs to Be
A recent survey on nurses’ mental health offers some reasons for cautious optimism. The survey showed that nurses’ mental health has continued to improve since its bleakest days during the peak of the pandemic. However, most nurses said they remain unhappy with their employer’s efforts to prioritize their mental wellbeing.
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Maintaining the Right To Work as Independent Nursing Professionals Is a Fight for Equality
Staffing agencies are convincing hospitals that it is dangerous to hire nurses like me, telling them that us independent nurses are not equipped to provide quality patient care, and that hiring independent nurses could open the door for legal ramifications.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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What Providers Need to Know About Fighting the Nursing Shortage Through Tech
A new Accenture report laid out considerations that hospitals should keep in mind as they adopt new technology aimed at improving nurse retention. Some of the report’s key recommendations for providers were to build a strong, cloud-based technology infrastructure and to involve nurses early on in the process of adopting a new digital tool.
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Why the Pandemic Was a Turning Point for Nurses Flexing Union Power
Nurse unions and labor experts agree that the pandemic was a turning point that catalyzed nurses to fight for improved working conditions and overall better treatment from their employers. By negotiating new contracts with their employers, unions are working hard to both uphold patient safety and mitigate the nursing field’s debilitating workforce shortage.
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Providence Scales Back Services in Oregon to Prep for Nurses’ Strike
Providence is cutting back on services at three of its Oregon facilities to brace for an upcoming nurses’ union strike. The Oregon Nurses Association has planned a five-day strike to fight for better staffing levels and working conditions.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups
Laudio Snags $13M for Platform that Tackles Nurse Managers’ Burnout
Laudio — a startup providing software that automates administrative tasks for frontline nurse managers — recently raised $13 million in Series B funds. The company’s platform helps managers complete tasks like patient rounding and schedule making more quickly, as well as provides recommendations on how to better engage staff members.
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How Receiving Positive Patient Feedback Can Help Boost Clinicians’ Job Satisfaction
Feedtrail believes healthcare workers become more satisfied in their roles when they’re connected to messages of patient gratitude, so it built technology to deliver that positive feedback to clinicians. The company recently announced the results of a five-month clinician retention workgroup, finding that 77% of clinicians agreed that consistently receiving positive patient messages reinforced their purpose.
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60% of Nurses Have Plans to Change Their Job Status in the Coming Year, Study Shows
The burnout crisis among nurses has gotten significantly worse since the peak of the pandemic in 2021, according to new research from AMN Healthcare. Only 40% of nurses said that they have no plans to change their work status in the coming year, and only one-third said they have ideal time to spend with their patients — marking a decrease of 10 percentage points from 2021.
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Professional Identity in Nursing: We Need It Now More Than Ever!
We need federal, state, and institutional leaders to invest in nurses earlier in the pipeline by increasing enrollment and program capacity and providing better resources like technology in the classroom so we can tackle the workforce shortage before it gets any worse.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
We’re Feeling the Effects of the Nursing Shortage. Technology Can Help.
Some providers are still hesitant about certain technology advancements, but this article shows not only how critical tech will be to the healthcare industry at large, but also how it can help to lessen the toll of unpredictable crises, like the pandemic or the insurmountable nursing shortage we’re currently facing.
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Report: Nurse Understaffing Is Becoming More Deadly for Patients
More than 90% of nurses in Michigan believe that understaffing is negatively affecting the quality of care they’re able to provide, according to a new report. The percentage of respondents who know of a patient death being caused by nurses being assigned too many patients nearly doubled in the past seven years — from 22% in 2016 to 42% in 2023.
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Sometimes Striking Is the Only Way Nurses Can Protect Patient Safety, Expert Says
There’s been a recent wave of nurse strikes, but Theresa Brown — a nurse and New York Times bestselling author — said she’s never met a nurse who happily embraces striking. Nurses only strike when it’s the only option left to protect patients and deliver quality care, she declared.
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‘Uber for Nurses’ Launches Updated App As Employee Base Grows
Hydreight recently launched an updated app so that the hundreds of nurses on its platform can have a more streamlined experience. Often referred to as “Uber for nurses,” the platform allows nurses be their own boss and work as independent 1099 contractors.
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Care.ai Deploys Its Virtual Nursing Software in New Mexico Hospital
Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque has recently established a virtual nursing program using Care.ai’s technology. The solution enables virtual nurses to handle patient care and administrative tasks that don’t require physical proximity. Lovelace is adopting the technology to mitigate the nurse shortage and burnout crisis.
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Dousing Burnout Takes a Combination of the Human and the Digital
Healthcare institutions must make clear their seriousness about employee mental health support and overall wellbeing and take decisive actions to make things better.