TONL News & Updates
Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services. These are the people who devote their lives to caring for mothers and children; giving lifesaving immunizations and health advice; looking after older people and generally meeting everyday essential health needs. They are often, the first and only point of care in their communities. The world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives if it is to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.
Visit https://www.who.int/news-room/campaigns/year-of-the-nurse-and-the-midwife-2020 to view the full article online.
By Dr. Cynthia Plonien, DNP, RN, CENP TONL Communications Committee Volunteer Nurses rely on scholarly articles for research and evidence-based practice to guide and improve clinical practice. Accessing and utilizing false information, easily published in a predatory journal can result in ethical, moral, and legal consequence to clinicians and harm to patients.
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/tne-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=599857&issueID=74476 to view the full article online.
Nursing Leadership
By Nancy Swezey, BSN, RN, CNOR, Minority Nurse Nurses are all too familiar with the instinctive concern for patients, and often equally so for the person sitting at the patient’s side. Many caregivers give up proper sleep, nutrition, recreation, and financial resources to care for a family member with a disease that requires comprehensive, and often constant, care.
Visit https://minoritynurse.com/managing-caregiver-burden/ to view the full article online.
By Mandy Roth, HealthLeaders Media How has a health system with a 323-bed hospital and a three-person innovation team built connections with more than 100 startups around the globe and attracted a Johnson & Johnson innovation lab to collocate on its campus? And how does it simultaneously challenge its own academic faculty to tackle the quandary of pediatric device innovation?
Visit https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/innovation/4-ways-childrens-national-hospital-conquering-innovation to view the full article online.
By John Palmer, PSQH Realizing the growing impact that stress and burnout takes on the health of nurses and their ability to do their job properly, The Joint Commission has decided to step in to help battle the problem. In July 2019, the accreditation agency released Quick Safety Issue 50: Developing Resilience to Combat Nurse Burnout, published to help healthcare facilities with the process of personal protection from burnout for nurses and other frontline staff. Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/tne-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=599983&issueID=74476 to view the full article online.
By Julia Quinn-Szcesuil, Minority Nurse Promotions take a lot of effort—few nurses get promoted just because they come to work every day. How can you bring some attention to your work? Here are five small steps to do this year that may set you on a path to your next promotion. Visit https://minoritynurse.com/5-steps-to-getting-the-promotion-you-want/ to view the full article online.
Nurse executives in a senior management position within an acute care facility including chief nursing officers, nurse directors, nurse managers and executive nursing officers with at least one year of experience in this role are requested to participate in a survey for a research study titled “Qualifications of Executive Nurses for Service on Hospital Boards."
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/tne-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=599876&issueID=74476 to view the full article online.
By Brandon "Kit" Bredimus, DNP, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, CNML, NE-BC TONL District 2 Director In 2018, nearly one in five Americans experienced a mental health condition, yet only half of those living with mental illness received treatment. The rate of mental health conditions continues to rise as the funding and resources for treatment continue to decline.
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/tne-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=599887&issueID=74476 to view the full article online.
Healthcare Industry
By Alexandra Wilson Pecci, HealthLeaders Media More patients are using their financial experience to make healthcare decisions, making financing programs a requirement of doing business. Adding to the growing chorus of need for flexible patient financing options is a new study showing that 37% of patients would opt to forgo treatment without a patient financing program.
Visit https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/finance/flexible-patient-financing-now-necessity to view the full article online.
Practice and Patient Care
By Heather Stringer, Nurse.com Nurse practitioner Catherine Trossello, DNP, FNP-BC, AAHIVS, and her colleagues at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City were exploring the possibility of starting a nurse practitioner fellowship focused on caring for LGBTQ patients when they discovered a surprising fact. They learned that theirs would be the first fellowship in the country to offer this type of postgraduate specialty training for NPs.
Visit https://www.nurse.com/blog/2019/12/30/nurses-closing-gaps-care-lgbtq-patients/ to view the full article online.
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