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Today's Top Beats

🦻 Hearing Denied
💓 Love Island Nurse

🖥️ Finding Virtual Jobs

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Nurse’s Hearing Denied

The US Supreme Court turned down hearing a case in which four New Jersey nurses challenged the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. The original executive order requiring healthcare employees to be updated on Covid-19 vaccination was rescinded in June. The nurses from Hunterdon Medical Center filed in June 2022 to block the hospital from enforcing the requirement. A district judge denied their request for failing “to demonstrate the policy violated their constitutional rights.”

Igniting Innovation

What happens when you bring together nurses and engineers? You get a problem-solving powerhouse like the University of Connecticut’s Nursing and Engineering Innovation Center. The first of its kind in the country, the new center combines nurses’ problem-solving expertise and innovative ideas with engineers’ technological expertise to make those ideas a reality. An example of one of their projects is redesigning a more efficient wheelchair that uses pulling instead of pushing to move it.

Striking in RI

The nurses at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett have had enough. After seven months of attempting to bargain with management, the union announced a strike due to unfair labor practices. More than 1,300 nurses from the medical facility are participating in the strike from November 14-19, the first one at the hospital since 1999. The nurses’ most significant concern is staff shortages, and the union is hosting a candlelight vigil for patient safety tonight in the park across from the hospital.

TODAY'S TOP VITAL

59,300,000

The number of Americans who reported having any mental illness in the past year.

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YOUR NEW THING STRATEGY WITH NEW THING NURSE

Finding a Virtual Nurse Job

Searching for a virtual nurse job can be challenging. There are so many places to look! It helps to use the right keywords: 

• Keywords vary, so use a variety of terms, including virtual nurse, virtual nursing, virtual RN, remote nurse, remote nursing, remote RN, telenursing, telenursing, telenurse, telenurse, hybrid, work-from-home, WFH, and remote. 

Job positions can be posted on: 

• Hospital websites: Look for jobs with the keywords above, especially roles tagged as remote, work-from-home, or hybrid (partially remote).

• Social media like LinkedIn: LinkedIn is the spot for job listings. Follow nurse influencers like Nurse Fern, who specialize in promoting remote nurse opportunities. 

• Websites like Indeed.com: Traditional job websites are still worth the look. Many positions are often cross-posted on other platforms. 

Job matching companies like Incredible Health: Create a profile with Incredible Health and see if any virtual nurse positions match.

TODAY IN THE CHART

SUPPLY ROOM

Listen Up!

The new Core 500 digital stethoscope from Eko has high fidelity audio, a colored display with disease indication, and 3-lead ECG. It’s also HSA/FSA eligible and comes with free engraving and a free case!

BREAK ROOM

A Nurse’s Pursuit for Love

Do you enjoy watching reality TV after a long shift? Watch the nursing world and reality TV worlds collide on Love Island USA Season 5, as we follow Jasmine Sklavanitis, a trauma ICU stepdown nurse, and her pursuit for love.

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