Addressing Nurse Burnout with Stress First Aid
BY ERIN GILFENBAUM
While career burnout among healthcare workers is not a new concept, nurses were faced with extraordinary new challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Building Your Mental Health Toolbox to Survive and Thrive Through the Pandemic
BY KATIE BOSTON-LEARY, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, AND KATHY DRISCOLL, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CCM
Healthcare professionals continue to face unimaginable stress, exhaustion and burnout, and they need support to remove or mitigate stressors and tools to help them cope.
The Power of Breathing
BY RAJITHA BOMMAKANTI, BSN, RN-CCM Case managers are an integral part of the healthcare team. Their roles are crucial in preventing readmissions and coordinating services for patients and their families. During the COVID-19 pandemic, inadequate resources in the community, overloaded caseloads and intensive care units being at maximum capacity have put…
Food Insecurity and Its Impact on Health
BY BUSHRA HASSAN, MBA, RD, LDN Food insecurity is an issue plaguing America that has only increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Nutrition Journal, nearly 15% of U.S. households—and almost 18% of households with children—reported food insecurity early in the COVID-19 pandemic (https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12937-021-00732-2.pdf). Before the pandemic, approximately…
Full-Service Nurse Wellness
BY BENJAMIN J. FOSTER, MBA In January 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced $103 million in awards to improve the retention of healthcare workers and help respond to the nation’s critical staffing needs by reducing burnout and promoting…
*5* Simple Tips on How to Achieve Your Ultimate Health in 2022 and Beyond!
BY SANDRA KAHN, AP, RN, BSN It is a new year, and it is time to get serious about the future of your health. The decision to take action for your health is one of the most important decisions you can make for yourself, if not the most important, since without…
Leading With Care: Navigating a Journey to Health With Trauma Informed Care Leadership
BY KELLIE BURKE, MSW, CSW, LMSW, AND JAQUOIA (JQ) SYLVESTER, LMSW, MBA It seems like every article you read lately starts with “The past year and a half…” as it references the hardships and struggles our nation and the world faced as a result of the pandemic. Just when we think that…
Case Management Workforce Needs Are Driven By Supply And Demand
BY CHARLES WHITE, EdD, MBA CASE MANAGEMENT DEMAND FACTORS A perfect storm continues to intensify because of our existing shortage of registered nurses, limited nursing faculty, BSN entry requirements and the effects of the pandemic. As Haas et al. (2020) described, the fragility and vulnerability of our nursing workforce have been…
A Conversation with Kristine Weiss Adams, MSN, CNP
BY MARY MCLAUGHLIN DAVIS, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM Each month, we will look at a case management leader recommended by one of our past CMSA presidents. Each one has contributed to the practice of case management and inspired others to step up and become leaders in their area of case management.…
Whole Person Advocacy: Prioritizing the Mind-Body Connection in a Global Pandemic
BY SUSAN CURTIN MCDONNELL, RN, BSN At no other time in modern history have the effects of stress and anxiety on medical and behavioral health been so clearly realized and documented as they are now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Every human being on the planet is having to face a new…