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TONE News & Updates
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Nursing Leadership
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Practice and Patient Care
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Education and Events
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Public Policy
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Members in the News
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Healthcare Industry
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Susie Cassle, MSN RN, NEA-BC, Vice President/CNO, Hendrick Medical Center"Growing our own" nurses is familiar to all nurse leaders. I am very pleased to share the following article written and updated recently by Susie Striegler, MSN, RN, Nurse Educator at Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene. Our program developed originally in 2011 and continues to evolve based on needs of new graduate RNs and input from leaders. We are particularly proud of the one-year retention rate improvement noted. Having an opportunity recently to meet with the enthusiastic new nurses in different teams during their first NurseLink marathon day was energizing for me. Our experience continues to support the significance of the group process for new nurse hires as foundational.
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Susie Cassle, MSN RN, NEA-BC, Vice President/CNO, Hendrick Medical Center
One of the greatest challenges the health care industry faces today is the shortage of registered nurses. An aging population is causing an unprecedented number of nurses to retire from the profession. Also, the nursing schools are not able to keep up with the demand of students enrolling annually. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2022, there will be more than a million job openings for nurses in the United. States. This number will significantly affect the hospitals in the rural and urban areas, where there is a lack of availability of new nurses and smaller towns/hospitals lack the allure that metropolitan hospitals offer.
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TONE Elections are scheduled to be held June 2-16, 2016.
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In addition to a new look and feel, the website is now mobile responsive so can be viewed on your smartphone or tablet computer!
TONE would love your feedback concerning the new website and also what content would be helpful to you as a member of TONE and a nurse leader in your community. We hope you take a few minutes and review the website and let us know what you think. Your engagement and support of TONE help ensure our mission "To represent nurse leaders in Texas who improve healthcare through collaboration and innovation."
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Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders MediaOnce on track to be a CNO, Amy Rosa took an unexpected detour to becoming a nurse leader and now uses her clinical experience, collaboration skills, and knowledge of informatics to affect patient outcomes as a CNIO.
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Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC, Nurse.comNurses who want increased career satisfaction might consider defining the underlying mission upon which their nursing identity is built.
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Paige Minemyer, Fierce HealthcareAn Australian study found that poorly-designed hospitals are adding to stress and burnout for nurses and is impacting staff retention.
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Marty Stempniak, Hospitals & Health NetworksOur Nurse Watch column from a couple of weeks ago — which focused primarily on the nurse burnout "public health crisis" — seems to have struck a chord with readers across the country.
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Nicole Raney, CultureMap AustinTexas is the land of opportunity for nurses of all kinds, according to WalletHub's latest study.
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Becker's Infection Control & QualityIn the continuous movement toward higher levels of quality, safety and cost effectiveness, hospitals and health systems strive to meet a number of patient- and systems-related goals. In 2007, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement proposed a theoretical model — the Triple Aim, which collapsed the various goals to an interdependent set of three.
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Be-Verlyn T. Navarro, RN, BS, CEN, ADVANCE for NursesCare transitions program nurses ensure patient get proper follow-up care.
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Kathleen Mathieu, NorthJersey.comI t's all eyes on home health services as the need for its specialized care grows. At the heart of the matter are nurses who practice in diverse capacities, from field nurses to executives with healthcare organizations.
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Kearney Hub Imagine having a nurse connect with a patient instantly through a video camera.
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The recently adopted TONE Bylaws are now posted to the website.
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Employ the power of online professional networking! Nurses Lounge is all about bringing nursing professionals together in a way that advances our profession. Join TONE's Lounge today! The cost is free but the value is PRICELESS!
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Your destination for exciting Nurse Executive job opportunities and the best resource for qualified candidates within the Nurse Executive Industry. Visit the TONE Career Center today!
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Catherine Sampson, RevCycle IntelligenceHealthcare reform efforts that hope to foster value-based care should be based on patient outcomes instead of provider processes.
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CW39.comSamantha Loos-Polk is inspired. She wants to be a nurse because of her own life-changing journey with cancer at the age of 14.
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Houston HeraldTexas County Memorial Hospital announced special recognition this month for two of its nurses and certified nurse assistants.
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Blue Ribbon NewsThe nursing staff of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Rockwall were recognized on National Nurses Day this morning in honor of their compassionate, dedicated, caring and professional services, as Mayor Jim Pruitt proclaimed the week of May 6-12, 2016 as Nurses Appreciation Week in the City of Rockwall.
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Carrie Feibel, Houston Public MediaThe federal government has agreed to continue sending billions annually to Texas, to support hospitals that treat large numbers of uninsured patients.
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Jacqueline Belliveau, Health IT SecurityA Ponemon study found that more organizations are seeing an increase in the number of healthcare data breaches, costing the industry about $6.2 billion.
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