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The role of the front-line nurse leader is one of the most difficult and expansive in health care. Learn how one health system is realigning leadership roles to support the critical nature of the nurse leader leading to more meaningful work.

Associate nurse graduates can often find themselves locked out of employment. Learn more about disparities in opportunities for nursing students who are not advantaged by race or socioeconomic status with regard to nursing education and employment

Healthcare in a rural setting is very challenging. With limited resources, including staff, equipment, and supplies, many organizations are struggling to stay open.

Improving nursing engagement while struggling with staffing shortages, burnout, and unbalanced ratios of novice to experienced nurses can seem overwhelming.

Rise up from the ashes of the pandemic to create a sustainable future of the nursing workforce.

Improve safety through acuity-based staffing and data-driven patient assignments. Across the country we have seen nurses going on strike or just begging for safe working conditions and many hospitals are struggling to deliver because there just aren’t enough nurses. Clinical Science helps ensure workloads are safe and realistic and gives leaders insight into where support is needed most while also supporting smart nurse-patient assignments.

Since their debut, Automated Dispensing Cabinets have evolved to meet the challenges of medication management, but keeping pace with technological advances can be a challenge for organizations. Now more than ever, nurses need optimized workflows. Learn how an as-a-Service model can transform medication management through collaboration and innovation. Kristine Shepherd, MSN, RN, Clinical Nurse Consultant for Omnicell, and Jackie Smith, Principal Product Designer at Omnicell, share their perspectives.

Nursing leaders can create valuable partnerships to help achieve their goals for innovation and change in health care. We discuss how to become innovation ready (ideas as seeds, fertile ground, ideas to grow) by supporting our nurses in a more intentional way. In leveraging the full capabilities and resources of key partners where goals are aligned and cultivating a healthy environment where nurses feel safe and heard, innovation can yield a simpler, better, more value add experience for both patient and caregiver.

With labor and supply chain costs soaring, the need for workflow efficiencies that support a dynamic staffing model are more important than ever. During this episode, Corrie Halas and Samantha Glennon, two of UKG’s Regional Nurse Executives, will discuss how organizations are becoming more innovative in order to provide dynamic real-time staffing with the support of technology. Learn how self-scheduling and shift swapping can be performed on the UKG’s mobile app and how these tools support the individual practitioner to be flexible and fully aware of the care demands across their organization. This podcast is sponsored by UKG.

This podcast explores how nurse leaders can foster a healthy nursing workplace environment where leaders can grow and thrive: Be well, be safe and stay well.

Frontline Nurse managers have become the “shock absorbers’ for their staff during the pandemic. To give them better tools and support their work, this podcast looks at a redesign of the frontline nursing model; how individual nurse managers can be empowered and supported; and how a centralization of nurse staffing and scheduling can help.

A discussion of the process to find the right nurse applicants and how to expedite. This conversation looks at the issue from three phases: how to attract and identify the appropriate candidates; submission of applicants, conducting interviews, offering the positions and getting acceptance; and the pre-board and onboarding processes.

Nurse managers are at a crossroads and need our support. Explore strategies to bring meaning and joy in nursing manager practice through five themes: to mentor and be mentored, to focus on the patient, to create and cultivate environments, to be optimistic, and to be empowered by leaders.

Retaining effective nurse managers is critical to any organization as they impact financial and quality outcomes as well as nurse satisfaction and retention.

This podcast will engage participants in a discussion of research findings of several modifiable factors in the work environment affecting the well-being and resilience of nurses during the pandemic. Gain actionable takeaways to better support the well-being of the nursing workforce of the future.

It takes more than one person to perpetuate a legacy. Though collective leadership, every nurse has the potential to be a leader and to leave a legacy. Learn effective tactics to develop a legacy leadership through three core areas — The Strategies, The Personal, and The Environment.

Nurse leaders must continue to develop advanced leadership competencies as they move through their career, while helping diverse nurses within their sphere of influence to also develop leadership skills. This podcast will help participants to plan strategies to develop a leadership legacy and support other nurses from diverse background to do the same.

People deserve to experience us at their best. Explore best practices on how to develop deeper connections and become an inspirational leader through work-life integration and being fully in the present.

Understanding where to start to address burnout, turnover, and violence in our nurses is often overwhelming for nurse leaders.

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