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Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand with providing exceptional care. From building trust with patients to boosting your own confidence, how you present yourself can make all the difference. Discover why maintaining a professional image is crucial in nursing and how it can enhance both your work and the patient experience. Read more on our blog and take your professional presence to the next level! https://lnkd.in/dc2sFWqs #uknurses #uknursing #uknurse

Gail M. Vozzella, senior VP and CNE at Houston Methodist, spoke with HealthLeaders about why and how #nurses should get involved with #innovation, and how leaders can use their seat at the table to advocate for nursing #technology. Tune in to hear her insights: https://lnkd.in/gKVWq6ve

I hope everyone can join me for this webinar on November 21, which also happens to be worldwide pressure injury prevention day. #stopthepressure #pressureinjury #education

According to Cassandra Lewis, DNP, ACNP-BC, #CNO at Bon Secours’ Richmond market, part of Bon Secours Mercy Health, and HealthLeaders Exchange member, improving #PatientEngagement begins with the day-to-day interactions between the patient and the bedside nurses who care for them. Here are some tips on how #nurses can engage with #patients and make them feel more comfortable: https://lnkd.in/gAj5JiqQ

If we are going to solve the #NursingCrisis in the #US - we must have a #reimbursement model that removes #nurses as a cost to #healthcare systems. Anyone in #business understands - if there is no way to pay for something - there is no business. For nurses there is no financial model that supports nurses in any healthcare setting (nurses are bundled into room rates). Nurses are only costs to the bottom line. As nurses are the only degreed healthcare professional that cannot bill for their services - a decision that was made in the 1930s designed to strip nurses/women of their financial knowledge of the value of their services in hospitals - (in the 1920s every hospital bill listed nursing services as a billable service). This is as much a fight to correct a policy designed 100 years ago to strip women of their financial independence as much as it is today to save the profession of nursing in healthcare. It’s time for change - and next week the Commission for Nurse Reimbursement hosts our first #LegislativeSummit June 20 in #DC. It is invite only, as space is limited - but if you have a strong interest to attend - send me a note. #NursesOnLinkedIn #HealthcareOnLinkedIn Sharon Pearce #MelissaMills Shannon Lunn, RN, CRN-BC, CNMAP Mirini Kim DNP, RN, CPNP-PC John Welton, PhD, RN

In a letter to the editor in Toronto Star, RNAO CEO Doris Grinspun RN, MSN, PhD, LLD (hon), O.ONT. says while physicians are essential, they cannot address Ontario's #PrimaryCareCrisis alone. "Nurses urge Bonnie Crombie for Leader to revise her pledge and promise access to either a family doctor or nurse practitioners supported by interprofessional teams of nurses, allied health professionals and social workers to the 2.5 million Ontarians who currently lack a primary care provider." Read her letter: https://lnkd.in/guPxG92k

Tip for Hospice Nurses: Quick documentation tip to support eligibility. Lead with what the patient cannot do vs what they can do: Flip “consuming 70% of meals” to “unable to consume up to 30% of meals”. That simple change goes a long way to support eligibility. If you have time, you can go a step further and highlight that the inability to consume up to 30% of meals is due to decline by stating “Due to the progression of terminal, end-stage ______ disease, patient unable to …” or “Due to progressively worsening weakness and debility, patient unable to …” Documenting this way takes practice, so be kind to yourself. 🤗 Be safe out there! I love you guys … xoxo ~ Shelley 💕 #hospice #forhospicenurses #hospicenurse #shelleyhenry #amitynurse #amity #tipsforhospicenurses #tips #tipsandtricks #documentation #negativedocumentation #eligibility #decline #support

#MakingaDifference 🎉 When a young family caregiver in Dublin has learned the difference between #PalliativeCare and #Hospice it gives me hope for the rest of us — perhaps even #physicians and #nurses . Do not let anyone tell you it’s “too soon,” for Palliative Care. When someone says that, it is a clear indication that they do not know the difference between Palliative Care and Hospice. Palliative Care is for anyone at any point in a serious condition or illness regardless of prognosis. Palliative Care is an interdisciplinary approach that includes a physician, advanced provider (NP, APN or PA), social worker, chaplain, and often a clinical pharmacist all subspecialty trained in Palliative Care. Palliative Care is an extra layer of care in addition to specialists. A patient (and family caregiver) can benefit from Palliative Care and then be cured or go into remission and live a long healthy life. There are many of my late husband’s patients who have long outlived him.

💙 Calling all critical care nurses! Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains a major challenge in healthcare. Join renowned experts BARBARA MCLEAN and Nicole Kupchik MN, RN, CCRN on December 18th at 9am PST as they share insights, tools, and strategies for combating AKI and improving patient outcomes. ✅ Key Takeaways: - Understanding AKI’s impact on critical care - Practical steps to address the epidemic - Earn 1 CE at no cost 🎯 This is the knowledge boost you’ve been waiting for! 📌 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dRetc2dd #protectthekidney #criticalcare #aki #nurses

Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL - You know I support the good work you and others are doing in nursing and healthcare. You should know what you're up against. The Profit Maximization System (PMS) rules healthcare and the world. The PMS killed two birds with one stone in the 1930s, as it suppressed women and the feminine while increasing profits. As nurses well know, the PMS in healthcare strongly resists anything that balances the masculine and feminine and even more so anything that negatively effects profits. Having said that, I so hope you are successful in getting the changes you are looking for. I think the time has come to consider a different strategy for achieving the changes we'd like to see in the PMS in healthcare. The PMS is fear-based and directed by a win/lose, command & control leadership/management model that is rapidly becoming obsolete. We are seeing the birth of a new model, A Loving Organization with Loving Workflows, where everyone wins--staff, patients, and Admin. This is because, remarkably, love is much more profitable than top/down fear and control. We live in a fully connected universe, including all humanity. This means the win/lose game the PMS currently plays is myth. The only games possible are win/win and lose/lose. Let's give love a chance. Together we're better! 💙💙 #ALovingOrganization #LovingWorkflows #3DHealthcare