Are You a Nurse Job Hopper?
Nurses leave jobs for innumerable reasons, and sometimes circumstances cause those of us in healthcare and nursing to only stay at a string of positions for relatively short periods. Job-hopping has generally been frowned upon in human resources circles, but generational changes and new attitudes about work and careers are slowly altering the landscape. However, job-hopping continues to have its ups and downs, and being a nurse job-hopper still comes with significant career liability.Photo by Gary Bendig on UnsplashThe StatsAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average time employees remain in any...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 10, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Six Reasons to Love Millennial Nurses
The Millennial generation (those born between approximately 1980 and 2000) are the new majority in the 21st-century workforce (see thisPew research study identifying this cohort as 35% of the overall workforce), and Millennial nurses are on their way to dominating the nursing profession.As one generation wanes and the other rises, power changes hands, and this is happening at this very moment as Generation X and the Baby Boomers reach retirement age and leave the workforce in droves.Every generation is disparaged and criticized by the generations that came before, and Millennials are no exception. However, I hypothesi...
Source: Digital Doorway - September 3, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: healthcare medicine nurse nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Why this physician quit her job
So last week, I did the bravest thing I have done in a very long time — I quit my job. Yes, I put in my 60-day notice. This was my dream job post service in the U.S. Air Force. I had dreamed of working in this establishment for months before my service time was up. I could not have been happier when I joined their team, a group practice enjoying every specialty I could ask or hope for. Coming from a private solo practice with little or no subspecialty support, then joining the U.S. Air Force, serving four years, and getting a taste of a “giant” practice with all kinds of specialties at your disposal, my current emplo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 31, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/uchenna-umeh" rel="tag" > Uchenna Umeh, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Pediatrics Practice Management Source Type: blogs
Prior Authorizations: Will They Become Damocles Sword?
By NIRAN AL-AGBA
Niran Al-Agba, MD, FAAP
In July 2009, the family of Massachusetts teenager Yarushka Rivera went to their local Walgreens to pick up Topomax, an anti-seizure drug that had been keeping her epilepsy in check for years. Rivera had insurance coverage through MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid insurance program for low-income children, and never ran into obstacles obtaining this life-saving medication. But in July of 2009, she turned 19, and when, shortly after her birthday, her family went to pick up the medicine, the pharmacist told them they’d either have to shell out $399.99 to purchase Topomax out-of-poc...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Patients Physicians Insurance companies medical malpractice Medicine Pharmaceuitcals Prior Authorization Source Type: blogs
Your Nursing Career and The Skill of Writing
When we think of the skills that make a nurse a nurse, writing is not the first one that may come to mind. PICC lines, wound care, ventilators, IVs, and physical assessment are the kinds of things we think of, but the power of the pen, as it were, is definitely not in the running (except, of course, for basic nursing documentation). However, I ' ll posit that writing is a skill that can serve your nursing career in both mundane and powerful ways throughout the years. What ' s your level of skill as a writer, and do you want to improve?Photo by Thought Catalog on UnsplashCareer Development 101In terms of care...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 27, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development careers healthcare careers nurse nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Words as a Barometer of Your Nursing Career
At no matter what point you find yourself in your nursing career, the words you use are powerful. How you talk to your patients and colleagues says a lot about you, and how you talk about your career, your work, and your life says even more. And we also need to consider how you talk to yourself. Are you choosing words that are empowering, positive, and indicative of your passion, expertise, and professionalism? Or are you stuck in a negative and defeatist loop?We all have bad days, and we also need to be careful when we ' re at risk of falling into negative language traps that paint us into corners filled with bad feelings...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development careers healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers resumes Source Type: blogs
Your Nursing Job: The Same Old Bed of Nails or a Comfortable Old Shoe?
Some of us have nursing jobs that are feel like a bed of nails, and some of us nurses have jobs that feel like comfortable old shoes. Have you ever fallen into either of these categories in terms of your work experience as a nurse? I posit that either one can be detrimental to your career in the long run.The Old Shoe Nursing JobIf you ' ve been working at a decent enough nursing job for a number of years, it can begin to feel like an old worn shoe: comfortable, fraying at the edges, and perhaps less supportive than it used to be.Photo by Christian Ro ßwag on UnsplashPerhaps you ' ve had a work experience th...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 13, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare healthcare careers job search nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Making the Case For Your Nursing Expertise
In nursing job interviews and other high-stakes career-related interactions, it ' s your responsibility to make the case for why you ' re an amazing nurse and the perfect fit for a particular position or healthcare organization. How do you make the case for who you are and what you bring to the table?Own Your Personal BrandThe first thing to understand is that you represent your own personal brand. In that context, when you ' re in the nursing and healthcare job markets, you ' re standing up and proclaiming the power and worth of your brand.Every nurse or healthcare professional has a brand whether they know it or not, and...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 30, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management healthcare careers nurse nurse careers nurses nursing nursing careers Source Type: blogs
Practical and Applicable Solutions: How SLPs Benefited from ASHA Health Care Connect
SLPs came to ASHA’s Health Care Connect conference ready to learn about dysphagia, head and neck cancer, Parkinson’s disease, concussion, delirium—and much more. Across three days of sessions, SLPs heard how their unique skills and training prepared them to work as an integral part of multidisciplinary teams.
Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on tips SLPs learned at ASHA Connect 2018. Read part one for insights heard from attendees of the schools’ sessions.
Ruth Snyder, an SLP and solo practitioner in Jacksonville, Florida, began her Friday morning at Vivian Sisskin’s session, “Differential ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 24, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jillian Kornak Tags: Academia & Research Events Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Dysphagia Parkinson's Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Third year of medical school is like learning to ride a bike
I could see the excitement on my six-year-old daughter’s face as we pulled into the parking lot and unloaded her new bike from the car. She had been anxiously awaiting this moment for several weeks — she was going to learn to ride a bicycle. She watched with increasing interest as I unscrewed the training wheels, tightened her handlebars and handed her the bike. She got on her new bike and with me holding onto the back of the seat and started to pedal. “Let go, Daddy,” I heard her say. She was ready to be “big,” and “big girls” don’t need help riding their bike.“Try to balance first,” I told her, “a...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/samuel-singer" rel="tag" > Samuel Singer < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
APRNs and 21st-Century American Healthcare
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) are an increasingly important fixture within the 21st-century American healthcare system and nursing profession. Full practice authority is a central key to APRNs ’ ability to fulfill the needs of the American public, and it’s time for such authority to be granted nationwide.My APRN StoryIn my own experience as a nurse, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses have figured largely. In the early years of my nursing career in Western Massachusetts, I was lucky enough to work with several teams of gifted nurse practitioners. These particular NPs were blessed to work alongside physici...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 9, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: APRN APRNs family nurse practitioners healthcare healthcare careers healthcare delivery healthcare policy nurse practice nurses nursing Source Type: blogs
Delegation Challenge – Days 14-30
Conclusion
This was one of my toughest 30-day experiments in terms of how much mental effort it required of me. Pushing through the limiting beliefs wasn’t easy. In fact – and I say this without trying to exaggerate – I found last year’s 40-day water fasting experiment to be psychologically easier. Fasting was physically more challenging, but it didn’t run me into as many limiting beliefs.
I gained a lot from this challenge, and it certainly transformed my thinking about delegation. The way I think about delegation now is much different than it was eight weeks ago before I began this experiment. I fou...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
Nurses: Come Out of the Woodwork
Although Nurses Week is long over, the public face of nursing still needs a regular shot in the arm so that the public knows what nurses actually do. As nurses, do we describe our work in a way that gets the point across? Does the public know that we ' re more than the media makes us out to be?Photo by Dmitry Ratushny on UnsplashA few years ago, I reviewed the documentary, "The American Nurse" on this blog, andthat post (and our interview with the filmmakers onRNFM Radio) affirmed that this film contributes greatly to broadening the view of who nurses are and what they do. From birthing to home care, from ho...
Source: Digital Doorway - June 25, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: healthcare healthcare delivery nurse nurses nursing nursing identity Source Type: blogs
The Lie of Precision Medicine
My next blog post will be entitled " The Lie of Precision Medicine "— sarcastic_f (@sarcastic_f)June 23, 2018This post will be my own personalized rant about the false promises of personalized medicine. It will not be about neurological or psychiatric diseases, the typical topics for this blog. It will be about oncology, for very personal reasons: misery, frustration, and grief. After seven months of research on immunotherapy clinical trials, I couldn ' t find a single [acceptable] one1 in either Canada or the US that would enroll my partner with stage 4 cancer. For arbitrary reasons, for financial reasons, because ...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 24, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
