Nurse Retention
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Delnor Hospital Offers HeartMath Workshop in Geneva, IL on May 15, 2008
Denor Hospital in Geneva, IL is offering a six-hour HeartMath workshop on Thursday, May 15 from 9:00 - 6:00. This is a great opportunity to attend a live HeartMath event taught be trainers with years of experience using HeartMath personally and in a healthcare setting.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Hospital that Truly Cares
When so much of the news we hear about the US health care system is what’s breaking or broken, it’s inspiring to hear the story of a hospital that is transforming stress and transforming lives. Delnor-Community Hospital in Geneva, Illinois recently received two awards from HeartMath®, an innovative research, technology and training organization which is helping hospitals across the US create healthy environments for both staff and patients.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Study blames nurses’ health problems on stress, low autonomy, lack of respect
A new study has linked psychological factors like work stress, low autonomy and lack of respect to health problems among Canada’s 314,900 nurses, finding that many regularly work overtime and have more than one job. Statistics Canada found that the proportion of nurses who reported high stress at work was more than that among employed people overall. The researchers defined work stress as occurring when job responsibilities outpaced a worker’s ability to decide how to peform the tasks required of them. Nearly a third (31 per cent) of female nurses were classified as having high job strain while the figure for all employed women was 26 per cent. Job strain was strongly related to fair or poor physical and mental health, and to lengthy or frequent absences from work for health-related reasons.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
emWave Personal Stress Reliever: A Sleek, Compact Portable Device for Reducing Stress Anytim
emWave™ is an entertaining mobile handheld device the size of a cell phone. At only 2.2 ounces, it’s the smallest, lightest personal stress reliever on the market today. emWave users learn how to easily reduce stress—such as anger, frustration, worry, and anxiety—in real-time. HeartMath has earned a global reputation for their 15 years of innovative research on the relationship between stress and emotions. emWave represents a breakthrough in personal stress reduction technology.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
New nurses facing stress, burnout: study
A study of 225 junior nurses across Ontario suggests 66 per cent had symptoms of burnout, such as emotional exhaustion and depression, less than two years into their jobs, said researchers at the University of Western Ontario. The nurses pointed to work overload, lack of fairness in the workplace, poor interpersonal relationships and lack of empowerment as precipitating burnout.
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Saturday, February 11, 2006
New Hope For The Nursing Shortage Crisis
In this white paper we will examine the causes of the nursing shortage, review its impact on the health care system and patient care, examine long term solutions, and present some innovative short term solutions that have been shown to be effective in helping health care institutions retain nursing staff, reinvigorate their culture, improve performance and improve quality of life for nursing staff.
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Monday, January 31, 2005
Nurses Step to the Front - In hamlets and high-tech hospitals, nurses are taking on bigger roles
Many of the country’s more than 2 million nurses are taking on jobs that were once the purview of physicians, like administering chemotherapy and running their own primary-care practices. They are carving new niches in fields such as genetics and computerized patient records, where nurses were once hard to find, and bringing philosophies oriented toward health promotion and problem prevention to geriatric care and case management.
Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Delnor-Community Hospital Soars with HeartMath
Diane Ball, R.N., had just about reached her breaking point. “I was at a point where I was starting to second-guess my nursing career and position,” she says. “Familiar reasons like burnout, information overload, changes in technology, time pressures and family issues were starting to take their toll.”
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Study Looks at Nurse Workloads
Nurses are getting older and there are fewer of them, leaving patients and hospitals in serious trouble as a work shortage reaches a crisis level in American hospitals.
Nursing advocates warn the staffing situation in hospitals is getting worse and a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds the higher the patient-to-nurse ratio in a hospital, the greater the likelihood of patients dying or suffering life-threatening complications from surgery.
Saturday, September 14, 2002
US nursing shortage a “national security concern”
The nursing shortage that is sweeping through the USA is already at a level that has been upgraded from a health crisis to a national security concern, according to report issued by the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and Institute for Health Care Studies at Michigan State University.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Hospitals are being revitalized with HeartMath
While some hospitals are playing bidding wars for registered nurses, other hospitals are evaluating how they can increase employee retention and reinvent their reputation for being a high-quality health care organization. Delnor-Community Hospital, outside Chicago, is such a hospital. They?ve re-invented their hospital by making their employees and patients their top priority and as a result they?ve realized $800,000 in annualized savings due to their first-year turnover reduction. Measurables from staff retention to staff satisfaction and patient satisfaction have dramatically improved for Delnor over the past two years.
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Friday, September 06, 2002
The Patient Has Turned the Corner
The patient is nursing. There are signs of nascent recovery. This is a good time to review those signs and to focus on the problems that remain and could still doom the patient. But there is reason for hope.
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