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How to Strengthen the Preceptor–New Graduate Nurse Relationship

The preceptor–new graduate nurse relationship can make or break a nurse's transition into practice. Before a new nurse fully finds their footing, the tone set in those first weeks shapes whether they stay, thrive, or quietly walk away.

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How to Reduce Bullying, Burnout, and Turnover

What do you do if you’re a healthcare executive and your recent employee engagement data indicates that you have a significant bullying, burnout, and turnover problem? Do you sigh and say, “Well. That’s just the...
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How to Resolve Interdepartmental Conflict

I worked as a Neurosurgical Step-Down nurse for many years. We typically received our patients from the ED, OR, or Neuro ICU. When our patients were stable, we transferred them to the Neuro MedSurg Department....
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How to Create a Recognition Rich Culture as a Retention Strategy

Human beings want to feel recognized, valued, and to believe they make a difference. They want recognition by their organization; their leader, and their peers. When employees don’t receive meaningful recognition, they leave. Healthcare professionals...
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How to Reduce Racism in Healthcare

Racism in healthcare is widespread within the nursing profession. We’ve all seen it whether we realized it or not. And may have been a part of it!  What have we done about it? Not enough!...
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Strategies To Make Sure You Don’t Hire a Bully

With the Great Resignation still upon us, it’s easy to understand why healthcare organizations are making hiring and retaining their existing staff their number one priority, while culture is once again placed on the back...
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Strategies to Create a Positive Organizational Culture

Chances are you’ve heard the saying: People don’t leave jobs; they leave toxic work cultures or People leave managers, not companies. It’s the truth! No one wants to work in a culture that’s negative or...
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How to Deal with Negative Employees

Many leaders find that they spend more time and energy dealing with negative employees than actually managing their departments. You know, the employees who seem to wait for you to come in so that they...
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Healthy Work Environment

How to Shift from a Negative to Positive Work Environment

If you’re a leader struggling to shift your department from a negative to a positive work environment, you’re not alone.  One of the most common complaints we hear from healthcare leaders is that their employees...
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