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Key Fob Entry Systems for Commercial Buildings - Buyer's Guide 2024

Both convenient and contemporary, key fob door entry systems are today’s standard for commercial buildings. They replace clunky, old-fashioned keys that can be stolen and copied at any hardware store.  They use wireless, contactless technology where tenants can “tap” a credential like an ID card or coin-sized key fob near a proximity reader to unlock the door. Numerous manufacturers provide an array of systems suited to different commercial building use cases, some of which scale to tens of thou...
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The 5 Levels of Nursing Practice: Roles and Degrees | Vivian Community Hub

A nursing career has something for everyone. This healthcare profession offers a well-defined career ladder with options to suit a range of aspirations and ongoing opportunities for advancement. If you complete the requisite education and pass the appropriate exam, you can move up to a higher level of job responsibility, which typically offers more autonomy and higher pay. 
Vivian Health explores the primary five levels of nursing practice and the nursing degrees that make them possible to help...
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Quarterly Travel RN Salary Trends Recap: April-June 2024 | Vivian Community Hub

Among all the potential benefits, many consider above-average registered nurse (RN) pay as one of the top motivations to pursue travel nursing jobs. With 2024’s second quarter (April, May, June) having now wrapped up, Vivian Health continues our quarterly wage trends series to help you keep track of changes in travel RN salaries across the U.S. We looked at how pay rates in June at the end of the second quarter (Q2), compared to pay rates in March, which was the end of the first quarter (Q1).
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The Pros and Cons of a Career as a Home Health Nurse

With care at home becoming such a growing part of the healthcare industry, you may be considering a career as a home health nurse. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that employment in this field will grow 22% from 2022 to 2032. Significant trends are boosting the demand for home healthcare, including the aging U.S. population and the corresponding rise in healthcare needs for these older adults. Changing patient preferences, such as a desire for personalized care and aging-in-place, are a
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Spring into the Circular Economy

Spring cleaning and the circular economy, what is it all about? As spring begins this week and ushers in a season of renewal, it’s the perfect time to rethink our cleaning habits through the lens of sustainability and climate change.

Consumption of resources and the manufacturing of new goods has a significant Carbon Cost, so any way you can reduce, reuse, and recycle in your cleaning will help in the global efforts to forestall climate change.

In this post, we’ll explore how upcycling and rec

The Vivian Healthcare Workforce Report

Today, the healthcare industry finds itself at a critical juncture, with multiple stressors driving nurses and allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) out of the industry. For instance, a National Council of State Boards of Nursing study found that 100,000 registered nurses left the profession during the COVID-19 pandemic, and approximately 600,000 others plan to leave by 2027. Against this backdrop, Vivian produced our fourth annual Healthcare Workforce Report to assess clinicians' recent views
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Insights from Our 2024 Survey of Healthcare Professionals

We all know that the past few years have been a challenging time to work in healthcare. Although the pandemic is squarely in the rearview mirror, many clinicians continue to experience significant stressors at work against a backdrop of stagnant wages, family caregiving concerns and a rising cost of living. To gauge the current mood of the healthcare workforce, Vivian Health recently surveyed healthcare professionals (HCPs) about their most pressing issues and workplace concerns. We aimed to lea
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New Year’s Resolutions: Healthy Eating Through a Climatarian Diet

New Year’s resolutions are popular each January, with people trying things like “dry January,” “veganuary,” increased exercise, or healthy eating. In the UK, weight loss ranks as the number one resolution individuals made for 2024. As the first month of the year wraps up, we know many individuals seek inspiration to sustain their resolutions further into the year. Resolving to adopt a climatarian diet can have a positive effect on both your health and the planet!

Those who want to eat healthy o
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What is Carbon Cost?

Here at Cherwell Collective, we talk about a great deal about Carbon Cost. It’s a way of accounting for how our choices generate the greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. It’s such a major concept for us that we capitalise the term! Nevertheless, Carbon Cost is a relatively new concept that many consumers aren’t familiar with.

In this article, we aim to offer you a primer on what Carbon Cost is and how to use it when making choices in your day-to-day life. We will talk about:
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Live Wellness Event Recap: How to Nourish Yourself

Vivian held its inaugural annual Healthcare Professional Wellness Week from January 7–13, 2024, to support nurses and allied health professionals nationwide. The week featured free live events on topics like meditation, mental health and mentorship to support busy clinicians like you and help you carve out time for self-care!

For one of our Wellness Week modules, Vivian teamed up with Nourish, a provider of 1:1 telehealth counseling with licensed dieticians, to provide healthcare professionals
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5 Ways to Be an Effective Allied Health or Nurse Mentor

As healthcare shifted out of pandemic-influenced crisis mode and into a “new normal” across 2023 and now into 2024, many experienced healthcare professionals (HCPs) are taking stock of their careers and wondering what comes next. Even HCPs who may have felt relatively new and inexperienced just before the pandemic have emerged from the last few years with beefed-up skills, settled into staff roles and decided they’re ready to take on new challenges. Becoming a nurse mentor...
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How to Find a Good Mentorship in Healthcare

Finding someone to help guide you as a mentor can offer your healthcare career a variety of benefits. A knowledgeable mentor can help you learn new patient care skills, navigate bureaucracies, discover and pursue pathways for advancement and ultimately achieve your dream career. However, finding a nurse mentor or a mentor in an allied health profession can seem daunting. If you’re seeking or considering a mentorship in healthcare to help guide your career, read on.

December 2023 Travel Nursing Salary Trends By State

The nationwide average travel nursing salary declined by a modest 0.1% in the final month of 2023, per Vivian Health’s most recent wage trends report. The average weekly registered nurse (RN) pay across the U.S. was $2,417 during the month of November 2023 and fell just $3 to $2,414 during December.

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This slight decrease for the month caps off a year of falling wages overall, in which salaries decreased quite rapid
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