Thursday | March 16, 2023

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Hey-O Nursing Beat friends!

It’s Throwback Thursday, so here are your historical nursing facts for the week!

🩺“Approximately 78,000 nurses served in World War II. Nursing’s image took on a heroic cast during the war, but the reality for most nurses was that the work was incredibly demanding with few financial rewards and poor working conditions.”

🩺”Beginning in the 1960s, new types of nurses, who specialized in different hospital settings such as intensive care units, and nurse practitioners trained to deliver a variety of primary care services began to appear on the health care scene. The emergence of these ‘advanced practice nurses’ enabled hospitals and other health care facilities to deliver more efficient, less costly, and safer health care services.”

Big love and even better health,

Kel M.

Managing Editor of TNB

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MORNING BRIEF 🍳 ☕️

Canadian Woman Impersonated Nurse at Multiple Facilities

Aaliyah-Elizabeth Sampat, a 25-year-old Canadian in Oshawa, Ontario, was recently hit with 11 charges after impersonating a nurse with fake credentials, according to the Global News. While this incident is nowhere near the scale of the massive nurse licensing scandal the US is dealing with, even one nurse with false credentials risks patient safety. 

Sampat allegedly has worked as a Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) since 2021 at four different retirement and long-term care facilities in the greater Toronto area. She was arrested on March 8th and had ”documentation from various governing bodies,” according to the Global News story, but she was not registered with the College of Nurses of Ontario. Among the 11 charges she’s facing, Sampat has been charged with “four counts of fraud over $5,000, two counts of uttering a forged document, personation with intent, and possessing identity information with the inference of fraud.”

Six US Health Systems Among World’s Most Ethical Companies

When The Ethisphere Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, published its annual list of the world’s most ethical companies, it included six health systems on the list, which is based on corporate ethical standards that the institute has defined and measured for companies across 46 industries in 19 countries. All six of the honored health companies had been recognized in previous lists, according to Becker’s Hospital Review:

1. Cleveland Clinic, 13-time honoree

2. HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.), 13-time honoree

3. University Hospitals (Cleveland), 11-time honoree

4. Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.), eight-time honoree

5. Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.), five-time honoree

6. UPMC (Pittsburgh), five-time honoree

Also among the 135 recognized organizations were four health insurance companies: Blue Shield of California in Oakland, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Baltimore, Health Care Service Corp. in Chicago, and Cambia Health Solutions in Portland, Oregon. 

Children’s Mental Health Tops 2023’s Biggest Patient Safety Concerns

Every year the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) publishes its top ten list of the most pressing patient safety concerns based on medical device evaluations, medical research, patient safety events, and investigations, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. But this year’s top concern was new to the list:

1. The pediatric mental health crisis

2. Physical and verbal violence against healthcare staff

3. Clinician needs in times of uncertainty surrounding maternal-fetal medicine

4. Impact on clinicians expected to work outside their scope of practice and competencies

5. Delayed identification and treatment of sepsis

6. Consequences of poor care coordination for patients with complex medical conditions

7. Risks of not looking beyond the “five rights” to achieve medication safety

8. Medication errors resulting from inaccurate patient medication lists

9. Accidental administration of neuromuscular blocking agents

10. Preventable harm due to omitted care or treatment.

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3 Common Nurse Resume Mistakes

I have reviewed hundreds of nurse resumes over the years, and I often see the same mistakes made repeatedly. Avoid these three common errors to make your resume stand out from the crowd:  

1. Complete Mailing Address: You should not list your complete mailing address on your resume. When you do, you put yourself at risk for various privacy concerns, including identity theft. Employers will ask for your address at a certain time in the job application process.

2. References on the Resume:List your references on your resume only if a job application specifically requests this format. You do not want to list people’s names and contact information for privacy reasons. References, like your mailing address, are requested in specific sections of nurse job applications. 

3. Objectives: Historically, a section called an “Objective” was used on resumes to describe the purpose of your job application. The “Objective” section has been replaced by the “Professional Summary,” a three to five sentence summary describing what kind of job applicant you are and to load up keywords for Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software.  

Ready for a new job? Use the Winning Nurse Resume & Cover Letter Templates to make 2023 your year! Join the conversation on IG or Facebook @newthingnurse and join nurses and nursing students focused on success!!

DAILY DIVERSION 💊

When 26-year-old pediatric nurse Deanna Warren ordered pizza for her Super Bowl party, she didn’t realize the pizza place had her ex’s address on file. When the pizza delivery guy eventually found the right house, he updated Warren and her friends with gossip about the ex, leading her to share the exchange on TikTok and start a fundraiser for the pizza guy.

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Thanks for reading! 🤓