
Pandemic to Endemic: Taking Care of Our Healthcare Professionals
ABC News reports, “Pandemics are a widespread, rapid spread of disease, with exponentially rising cases over a large area. Endemic viruses, meanwhile, are constantly present and ...

Keeping Nurses in Nursing: The Future of Healthcare
We all have the same goal: We want and need to keep nurses in the nursing profession. Our nurses are burned out and dissatisfied with healthcare, inadequate staffing, high acuity, ...

Combat Meeting Fatigue with a Hybrid Work Model
When Covid-19 restrictions started and employees began working remote, the idea of having meetings on Zoom, Teams and other video conferencing platforms sounded like a good idea – ...

Can Nurses Make a Difference in Health Equity?
Health inequities are systematic differences in the health status across various social groups and their access and achievement of optimal health, which unfortunately is often the ...

Stabilization of the Healthcare Workforce
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted every single person in one way or another, leaving no one unscathed. Healthcare and the healthcare system alike have been directly affected and forever ...

The Role of Nurses in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
The impact of social determinants on individuals is vast and diverse. They can impact an individual’s understanding of healthcare for themselves and their family as well as affect ...

How Can Healthcare in Rural Communities Survive?
Competition to recruit registered nurses is fierce, especially experienced nurses. For rural healthcare facilities, competing for nurses is even more compressed due to the experience, ...

Vaccine Planning? Include Your Contracted Providers
Recently, our hospitals have started administering Covid-19 vaccination to our healthcare workers. This should come as fantastic news, as it would seem that a very valuable protection ...

The Impending Skills Gap in Healthcare
Normally, healthcare workers — nurses, therapists, etc. — will complete classroom as well as in-person practical clinical training as part of the education required to practice ...

If Left Untreated: The Fallout of Nurse Fatigue and Burnout
It seems like only yesterday we were raising the flag on the importance of our nurses and their impact on quality outcomes and patient care always, but particularly in the midst of ...