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Nursing Economic$ November/December 2024 Issue Preview

Get a sneak peek at the latest November/December issue of Nursing Economic$! Packed with opportunities to enhance your leadership skills and drive improvements in quality and cost outcomes, this issue is designed to help you navigate the evolving health care landscape.

024. Navigating Financial Wellness with Plannery: Solutions for Nurse Retention and Burnout

In this episode, Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member Dr. Rhonda Anderson talks with Dr. Danyel Germain, the Vice President of Customer Success and Clinical Solutions for Elsevier, Dr. David Berger, the CEO of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and Krishnan Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder and CEO of Plannery. They discuss the financial challenges nurses face, from student loans and credit card debt to inflation, and how these pressures impact nurse retention and patient care. The conversation also highlights innovative solutions like Plannery, which aims to help health care workers manage their debt and improve their overall financial wellness.

023. From Scrubs to the State House: Nurses in Policy and Politics – A Conversation with Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long

In this episode, Nursing Economic$ Editor Dr. Donna Nickitas, and Associate Editor Dr. Mary Ann Donohue-Ryan talk with Dr. Bethany Hall-Long, the current Lieutenant Governor for the state of Delaware, about health and public policy, and why it matters now more than ever as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Drs. Nickitas, Donohue-Ryan, and Hall-Long explore essential issues confronting the nursing profession; nurses themselves; and overall workforce, education, and training of nurses. They also address vital concerns related to politics, power, and the significance of nurses running for public office.

022. ‘Nurses All Speak the Same Language’: Continuing the Conversation with Sigma Theta Tau President Kenneth Dion

In October 2021, Donna Nickitas, Editor of Nursing Economic$, talked with Sigma Theta Tau President Dr. Kenneth Dion about the impact of the global nursing workforce on cost-effectiveness and savings on quality, safety, and outcomes. They continued their conversation in October 2023, during which Dr. Dion reflected on his nursing career and global leadership journey, his ongoing support of the nursing profession, and the importance of mentoring nursing students, who are the future of the nursing profession.

021. The Evolution of a Health Care System’s Business Model: Keys to Success

The chief nurse executive is a key leader when an organization sets out to develop or transform its business model. In today’s post-pandemic world, meaningful participation demands an evolved financial skillset to accommodate an ever-changing health care landscape. In this episode, Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member Dr. Therese Fitzpatrick talks with financial strategist Dan Majka, Managing Director and Practice Leader for Financial Planning at Kaufman, Hall & Associates. Mr. Majka discusses factors currently altering the cost structure of health care organizations; various strategies organizations can use to move forward, including benefits of organizational partnerships; and frameworks to successfully manage system performance and financial planning.

020. The Value of Nurse Leadership: Interview with Dr. Maureen Schneider

In this episode, Dr. Mary Ann Donohue-Ryan, the Associate Editor of Nursing Economic$, talks with Dr. Maureen Schneider, President of Chilton Medical Center in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, on the value that nurse leaders bring to the balance of leveraging innovation, maintaining fiscal resourcefulness, and supporting a challenged workforce. Drs. Donohue-Ryan and Schneider explore the strategic role of successful nurse leaders, and how significant, enduring and productive partnerships are built.

019. Hospital and Health System Finances: Interview with Health Care Expert Lisa Goldstein

Hospitals continue to experience negative margins, with hospital expenses decreasing slightly since the start of the pandemic, but not enough to address impacted volumes and revenues. As a result, issues regarding hospital and health system debt and financial sustainability weigh heavily on health care administrators. Hospital finances, and specifically, the management of bonds and debt, are of vital concern, particularly in light of the elimination of CARES Act funding and the forthcoming expiration of the federal Public Health Emergency COVID-19 plan. In this episode, Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member Dr. Therese Fitzpatrick talks with leading health care expert Lisa Goldstein about the rising pressures to maintain financial sustainability as hospital margins react to post-pandemic admissions and related adjustments.

018. A Call to Action: Sigma Theta Tau President Ken Dion Calls Upon the Global Nursing Workforce

In this episode, Nursing Economic$ Editor Dr. Donna Nickitas talks with Dr. Ken Dion, President of Sigma Theta Tau International. During their discussion, they explore the role of nurse leaders, and specifically, Sigma Theta Tau members, in the effort for nurses to be informed and educated about, and to advocate for, a new health care economy that recognizes the impact of the global nursing workforce on cost-effectiveness and savings on quality, safety, and outcomes through new care models, the use of technology, and conversation. Dr. Dion shares his vision, voice, and need for nursing visibility in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, as well as his rationale in creating new practices and policies in the global nursing workforce.

017. Global Impact of COVID-19 & Nursing’s Role in Advancing Social Justice & Developing Community Capacity (Feat. Dr. Sheila Davis)

In this episode, Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board Member Dr. Therese Fitzpatrick talks with CEO and nurse leader Dr. Sheila Davis about the global impact of COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted vulnerable populations. In addition, the role of nurse leaders in advancing social justice, developing community capacity, and addressing detrimental health issues worldwide is also discussed. 

016. Dealing with COVID-19 PTSD – Strategies for Preserving the Nursing Workforce and Supporting all Vital Frontline Personnel: Pt. 2

How can mission critical outcomes be achieved with the ongoing stress related to COVID-19, as well as other crises on the horizon? This two part podcast series addresses the compelling and urgent need for organizations to develop Healthy Workplaces with emphasis on Wellness among the workforce community. In Part 2 of this two-part episode, Drs. Therese Fitzpatrick, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN, and Nancy M. Valentine, PhD, DSc (hon) MPH, FAAN, FNAP, discuss strategies for developing a wellness program for health care organizations. They address concerns shared by leaders in nursing, medicine, top administration and board members, and present the multifaceted factors associated with the occupational hazards associated with being a health care employee and suggesting an array of specific strategies for program development. This episode provides extended content from the "Claiming the Corner Office" series in the September/October 2021 issue of Nursing Economic$.

015. Transition to Practice Programs: An Investment into the Future of the Nursing Workforce

The value of Transition to Practice Programs are well documented in the literature. In this episode, Syl Trepanier, DNP, RN, CENP, FAAN, FAONL, discusses with Larissa Africa, MBA, BSN, RN, the results of a “Think-Tank” of national nurse leaders around the topic of Transition to Practice and how this should be viewed as a strategic investment into the nursing workforce.

014. Dealing with COVID-19 PTSD – Strategies for Preserving the Nursing Workforce and Supporting all Vital Frontline Personnel: Pt. 1

How can mission critical outcomes be achieved with the ongoing stress related to COVID-19, as well as other crises on the horizon? This two part podcast series addresses the compelling and urgent need for organizations to develop Healthy Workplaces with emphasis on Wellness among the workforce community. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, Drs. Therese Fitzpatrick, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN, and Nancy M. Valentine, PhD, DSc (hon) MPH, FAAN, FNAP, discuss the factors involved in framing the business case for transition to a wellness orientation for health care organizations. They address concerns shared by leaders in nursing, medicine, top administration and board members, and present the multifaceted factors associated with the occupational hazards associated with being a health care employee and suggesting an array of specific strategies for program development. This episode provides extended content from the "Claiming the Corner Office" series in the September/October 2021 issue of Nursing Economic$.

013. Nursing and Nursing Leadership in Global Public Health

This episode presents a dynamic conversation with nursing health leaders Michelle Williams, ScD; Stephanie Ferguson, PhD, RN, FAAN; and Donna M. Nickitas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FAAN. Universal health coverage, health inequities, and worldwide poverty are current global health care concerns. Nurses are at the center of global public health, and collaboration between all disciplines, including nurse leaders, is paramount in battling global health care crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the nursing shortage. Today’s discussion focuses on ways to ensure nurses have the knowledge, skills, and ability to care for people at both the community-based level and around the world.

012. Collective Action: Nurse Practitioners Are Not ‘Mid-Level’ Providers

The nursing community has a unique opportunity to inform the public and policy makers of the vital role nurse practitioners play in advancing health access, equity, and quality care. Recently, Becker’s Hospital Review published a notice stating about 15 physicians at Edward Elmhurst Hospital were to be terminated and replaced by nurse practitioners. The implications made in response from local physician groups were that nurse practitioners are viewed as mid-level providers, and this practice could put patients in danger. In response, in December 2019, nurses from Rush University College of Nursing and Rush Health in Chicago submitted a Letter to the Editor to Becker’s Hospital Review, expressing dismay at the description of nurse practitioners as mid-level providers. This discussion, led by Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board member Dr. Therese Fitzpatrick, focuses on the events at Edward Elmhurst Hospital as reported in Becker’s Hospital Review and elaborates on why advanced practice registered nurses and nurse practitioners must become informants to policy makers and the public. 

011. The Nurses on Boards Coalition: State/National Integrated Strategy Work Group

This discussion is led once again by health care consultant and Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board member Dr. Rhonda Anderson. Participants include Ms. Kimberly Harper, Ms. Rita Wray, Ms. Jana Bitton. In today's episode, you will hear a review of the work being done with board placement at the national level and how it relates to the state, regional, and local level, including the preparation, support, and successful placement of nurses on boards at all levels. The Nurses on Boards Coalition represents national and state efforts by nurses and others working to build healthier communities in America. 

010. Being a Leader in the Nursing Profession: From Student to Graduate

In this episode, Dr. Beverly Malone, Chief Executive Officer for the National League for Nursing, speaks with recent nursing school graduate Brooke Trigiani of Rutgers University School of Nursing in Camden, New Jersey, on the transition from being a student nurse to becoming an active registered nurse in the community. Dr. Malone passes on her words of advice in becoming a leader both in the hospital and politically as a nurse. This interview was conducted on Tuesday, August 13, 2019, at the National League for Nursing Headquarters in Washington D.C.

009. The Nurses on Boards Coalition: A Roundtable Discussion

This discussion, led by healthcare consultant and Nursing Economic$ Editorial Board member Rhonda Anderson, DNSc(h), MPA, BS, RN, FAAN, LFACHE, focuses on the founding and work of the Nurses on Boards Coalition. In addition to Dr. Anderson, participants include Laurie Benson, BSN; Kimberly Harper, MS, RN, FAAN; and Rita Wray, MBA, RN, BC, FAAN.  Through this episode, you will learn about how the coalition came to be, why it is important for nurses to serve on boards, examples of various types of boards where nurses serve, the impact of nurses on boards and how you can get involved. The Nurses on Boards Coalition represents national and state efforts by nurses and others working to build healthier communities in America. 

008. Interview with Dr. Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center

In this episode, Dr. Donna Nickitas, Editor of Nursing Economic$, talks with Dr. Jennifer Francis, a Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, MA, and an Affiliate with the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Dr. Francis is world-renowned for her research on Arctic climate change impacts and the resulting effect on weather in other regions of the world. Her research has focused specifically on the connection between the rapidly warming Arctic and a weakened jet stream. Her article, "Clarity and Clouds: Progress in Understanding Arctic Influences on Mid-Latitude Weather," was published in the January/February 2019 issue of Nursing Economic$, as part of its special issue on "Climate Change & Health-Related Environmental Risk."

007. Interview with Senator Eduardo Bhatia, Minority Leader of the Puerto Rico Senate

While visiting San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2019, Nursing Economic$ Editor Dr. Donna Nickitas talked with Senator Eduardo Bhatia, the current Minority Leader of the Puerto Rico Senate. Their conversation focused on climate change and Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico. 

006. An Interview with Franklin A. Shaffer, President and CEO of CGFNS International

In this episode, Mr. Amil Kusain Perez Tan, an assistant director of nursing and doctoral student, talks with Dr. Franklin Shaffer, President and Chief Executive Officer of CGFNS International, an immigration-neutral, nonprofit-organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which helps foreign-educated healthcare professionals live and work in their country of choice by assessing and validating their academic and professional credentials. Dr. Shaffer discusses his decision to pursue nursing as a career at a time when the nursing profession was predominantly a woman’s profession, and his ongoing work as a prominent nurse leader. He also provides insight surrounding the similarities and differences in the workplace between male and female nurses, as well as diversity among foreign nurses, stating he believes at the soul of every nurse, nurses are more similar than they are different.

005. An Interview with Dr. Susan B. Hassmiller, RWJF Senior Advisor of Nursing

In partnership with AARP, Dr. Susan Hassmiller, the Senior Advisor for Nursing for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the 2009 recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, directs the Foundation’s Campaign for Action. In this episode, Andrea Palerino, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Utica College in Utica, NY, talks with Dr. Hassmiller about her role with the Foundation and the Campaign for Action, her volunteer work with the Red Cross, and her ongoing work on behalf of nurses and patients.

004. Speaking Up and Speaking Out: The Importance of the Nurse Voice

In this episode, public health nurse and health reporter Barbara Glickstein discusses the importance of the nurse voice with interviewer Giselle Gerardi. Ms. Glickstein discusses the economic, professional and social implications of speaking up as nurses and being heard through the media. She further provides advice to help nurses become engaged and be heard, while sharing her perspectives and experiences. 

003. An Interview with School Nurse Activist Robin Cogan

In this episode, Ms. Cogan speaks of her family’s experience with gun violence. She provides a powerful message about the impact of gun violence in our schools, how the ongoing threat weighs on kids in the United States, the traumatic effect it has when a mass school shooting hits close to home, and what nurses can do to help put a stop to it. This episode is a supplement to the guest editorial, “Why I Became a Nurse Activist,” authored by Ms. Robin Cogan and published in the March April 2018 issue of Nursing Economic$.

002. Beyond Lessons Learned: An Interview with a Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur

Full practice authority affords the nurse practitioner, as an advanced practice registered nurse, lawful control of and full liability for evaluation and management of patients in his or her charge, it eliminates financial barriers to entrepreneurship unique to advanced practice registered nurses, and allows for fair market competition. We are pleased to present Dr. Hahn’s interview with Mr. Cook for a deeper dive into entrepreneurial drive, development, policy participation, and planning in this episode. This episode accompanies the article, "Lessons Learned from Nurse Practitioner Independent Practice: A Conversation with a Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur," published in the January/February 2018 issue of Nursing Economic$ by Dr. Joyce Hahn and Wesley Cook. 

001. Interview with Dr. Peter Buerhaus — Improving Nursing Workforce Forecasts

On October 6, 2017, Nursing Economic$ Editor Dr. Donna Nickitas talked with nurse and acclaimed healthcare economist Dr. Peter Buerhaus about study findings published in the November/December 2017 issue of Nursing Economic$. The article, entitled 'Improving Nursing Workforce Forecasts: Comparative Analysis of the Cohort Supply Model and the Health Workforce Simulation Model,' was coauthored by Buerhaus and Doctors David I. Auerbach, Aprita Chattopadhyay, George Zangaro, and Douglas O. Staiger.