by: Norma Teran In the 22 years I worked as a nursing director in one service line or another, I consistently felt anxious when posting the holiday work schedule. I remember my first year as a director in a small community emergency room; half the night shift staff conveniently volunteered to work Christmas Day and New Year’s Day and requested off Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, which were not considered holidays at the hospital. I knew when I received those requests that there would inevitably be staff not happy about their schedule. Starting that year, I worked many of these holidays alongside my team, and with each passing year, I got a better handle on this critical schedule. Eventually, I posted well-created schedules balancing patient safety and nursing needs; however, when I posted what was to be my last holiday season schedule, I let out a massive sigh of relief!

This year’s INARC (International Nursing Administration Research Conference), sponsored by CGEAN, will be held Nov. 8-10 in Atlanta. The conference serves as the pre-eminent forum for nursing educators, executives, administrators and researchers from around the world to learn and discuss current healthcare and system challenges.

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"Strategies to Inspire Nurse Leaders: Designing, Engaging, Responding"
Feb. 28 – March 1, 2019
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas

Over 200 Texas nurse leaders and sponsor community members will gather at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas for the 2019 TONE Annual Conference. As always, the conference will offer a lineup of dynamic and engaging speakers covering topics relevant to nursing leadership, plus networking opportunities, industry insight and more. Mark your calendar!

Registration to open in November 2018. Please check the TONE website for additional details soon.

Health Leaders Journalists consistently overlook nurses as sources in health news stories. It's been that way for decades, even as nurses increasingly reach higher levels of education.

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Becker’s Hospital Review Bullying remains an issue for nurses in today's healthcare environment, but there are things organizations can do to address the issue. Becker's Hospital Review asked seven healthcare leaders to share the best ways to combat this issue.

Minority Nurse Vanderbilt University School of Nursing recently named Rolanda Johnson the new assistant dean for diversity and inclusion. Johnson is also the assistant dean for academics and associate professor of nursing, and here she shares more about her experience and her goals for VUSN.

Who drives innovation? Hospital leaders with the skills, network, and experience to drive change. Build all three by joining the next class of fellows.

Employ the power of online professional networking! Nurses Lounge is all about bringing nursing professionals together in a way that advances our profession. Join TONE’s Lounge today! The cost is free, but the value is PRICELESS!

Your destination for exciting Nurse Executive job opportunities and the best resource for qualified candidates within the Nurse Executive Industry. Visit the TONE Career Center today!

Fast Company The sharing economy is built upon service and interaction designs that engender interpersonal trust. Healthcare organizations could learn from it.

Fierce Healthcare In the Kaiser Family Foundation's latest tracking poll of about 1,200 people, nearly one-third said healthcare was the most important issue in this election. More than 70 percent of those polled said it was at least "very important" to them.

BBC News This video from BBC News presents Moxi, a "socially intelligent" hospital robot that can take on non-patient-facing logistical tasks and has gone into service in a pilot program at three Texas hospitals.

CIO Oct. 8-12 is National Health IT Week. In this opinion piece for CIO, a healthcare growth strategist shares how the coming years will see the transformation of healthcare delivery, driven by three important trends related to information technology.

Modern Healthcare Implementing mandated nurse-to-patient staffing ratios would cost Massachusetts providers an estimated $676 million to $949 million a year, net relatively minimal savings and have an insignificant impact on quality, according to a new analysis from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.

Oncology Nursing News Cancer research requires a specific professional skillset and dedicated knowledge base to translate research study results into improvements in patient care. The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree, the highest level of clinical nursing a nurse can obtain, provides the educational base to begin implementing new patient-centered research into clinical practice.

KVUE-ABC TONE member Amy Irons, director of Neonatal Services at St. David's Woman’s Center of Texas, was among several nurses reunited with babies they had cared for in ICU at the North Austin hospital. "These families have been through so much in having a sick baby," Irons said. "This is a chance for us to reconnect with those babies."