Shining a Light on HR Excellence: Celebrating Human Resource Professional Day
At Propelus, we understand that people are the heartbeat of any organization. That is why we celebrate Human Resource Professional Day, honoring the essential role HR professionals play in nurturing and sustaining vibrant workplaces. This day is an opportunity to reflect on the value of HR teams and their impact on driving career growth and professional development. Join us as we explore how to honor HR professionals and why their work is vital to organizational success. What is Human Resource Professional Day? Human Resource Professional Day, observed annually on Sept. 26, recognizes the indispensable contributions of HR professionals. This day not only celebrates their achievements but also highlights the often-overlooked scope of their work. It’s a chance to deepen your understanding of HR’s role and to express appreciation for their unwavering commitment. Why Honor HR Professionals in Healthcare? In the dynamic field of healthcare, celebrating HR professionals is crucial. Here’s why we at Propelus believe it’s important to recognize their efforts: Talent Acquisition and Retention HR professionals in healthcare are key to attracting and retaining exceptional talent. Their dedication ensures that healthcare facilities are equipped with skilled, compassionate professionals who provide outstanding patient care. While they may not interact directly with patients, their work is foundational to the effective operation of your organization. Employee Well-being HR teams are champions of employee well-being, driving initiatives that promote wellness, mental health, and work-life balance. In the high-pressure environment of healthcare, their efforts are vital for maintaining morale and preventing burnout. By supporting these initiatives, you contribute to a more balanced and engaged workforce. Training and Development Continuous learning and development are central to healthcare excellence. HR professionals facilitate programs that keep staff up-to-date with the latest healthcare practices and technologies. This ongoing education not only boosts employee confidence but also enhances the quality of patient care. Compliance and Ethics Navigating complex regulatory requirements and ethical standards is a critical function of HR teams. By managing these aspects, HR professionals allow other leaders to focus on delivering exceptional patient care. Compliance and ethics requirements within your business protect the organization and its employees from legal issues and help maintain a culture of integrity. Crisis Management During challenging times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, HR professionals have been instrumental in managing workforce dynamics and implementing safety protocols. Their support during crises is a testament to their resilience and commitment. If your team members have a personal challenge, they can always turn to your HR team for extra support and advice. Cultural and Organizational Leadership HR professionals shape the culture of healthcare organizations, fostering an environment of inclusion, collaboration, and respect. Their role in building a supportive and empathetic workplace is crucial for organizational success. By celebrating HR colleagues on Human Resource Professional Day, you acknowledge their role in maintaining a high standard of care and employee support. Ideas to Honor Healthcare HR Professionals Inspired to celebrate Human Resource Professional Day? Here are some thoughtful ways to recognize and appreciate your HR team: Thank You Notes from Staff: Encourage colleagues to write personal notes or create thank you cards for HR colleagues, showcasing their appreciation for the team’s dedication. Lunch or Dinner with Leadership: Organize a special meal around Sept. 26, offering senior leaders the chance to express their gratitude and celebrate HR professionals. Gift Packages: Delight your HR team with personalized gift packages that reflect their interests, demonstrating your appreciation for their hard work. Customized HR Appreciation Video: Create a video featuring testimonials from employees and leaders, highlighting the positive impact of your HR team. Display the video prominently to raise awareness of their contributions. Final Thoughts Human Resource Professional Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize and celebrate your HR team’s hard work to ensure a safer, healthier, and more compliant workforce. Propelus is dedicated to helping HR professionals equip their workforce with the resources they need to perform at the highest level. Through our industry-leading solutions—EverCheck, Immuware, and CE Broker—we’re powering professionals with the tools they need to achieve professional compliance and ultimately, provide safer healthcare with better outcomes. This Human Resource Professional Day, we thank the HR professionals in healthcare who help their organizations provide the best care possible.
Celebrating One Year as Propelus: A Look Back at Our Progress
Written by Julie Walker, CEO at Propelus One year ago, on August 1, we excitingly announced our new brand, Propelus. This is a defining moment in our company’s history, and it more formally brought our brands – EverCheck, CE Broker, and Immuware – together as one unified company, all with a focused vision, mission, common set of values, and clear, customer-centric strategy. We knew we were on to something really special! A nod to our history We are honored and humbled by our unique history of over 20 years. Our founder’s vision was to help the Florida Department of Health (FL DoH) ensure their continuing education requirements for their licensed professionals were satisfied, which was foundational to our future. The FL DoH partnership was further instrumental in helping us develop and grow over the years to become the most trusted full-lifecycle continuing education management solution for government agencies, licensure departments, boards, and compacts. We embraced the opportunity to continuously evolve, innovate, and deliver meaningful solutions, introducing EverCheck. First, we assisted healthcare organizations in Florida, and soon after that, we expanded to a national footprint with the first-of-its-kind primary source verification and monitoring solution essential for dynamic workforce compliance management and to ensure professionals are Clear to Work®. In early 2023, we welcomed Immuware, a modern, intuitive, and professional-centric solution for Employee Health and safety (EHS) screening and surveillance. Ensuring the entire workforce – employees, vendors, contractors, students, and more–are healthy and safe to work – another critical element of workforce compliance in the broader human capital management ecosystem. Realizing our potential Our customer-centric, values-driven, and innovation-focused approach is core to our organization. Our many trusted professionals and their employers, licensure boards, agencies, and more helped us realize that our organization, as one company, has far-reaching potential with the focus on making a meaningful impact across our broader healthcare ecosystem. So, we stacked hands and set forth on our journey… We came together as one Propelus Team We embarked on this journey much earlier, in 2023. We started with our values. We believe they are our DNA. They are a blueprint that guides every interaction and decision and informs how we behave, operate, engage, and grow. We gathered thousands of inputs from our organization, customers, and other industry experts. We reviewed, discussed, and debated. We stacked hands, and here we are today. We have refreshed values, an even clearer vision, mission, and strategy–focused on powering professionals–connected through modern technology and united by our new brand, Propelus. We have laid an even stronger foundation for modernizing how professionals, employers, regulators, educators, and partners work together. Further, our “propeller” logo accentuates the full spectrum of what we do and the future we envision. Powering our progress We are excited to share a snapshot of our Propelus highlights: We serve more than 5 million professionals across our Propelus solutions. We partner with 400+ healthcare systems and several hundred licensure boards. We verify and monitor 8.3k primary data sources & professions for total workforce compliance. We process millions of license verifications, certifications, and registrations daily. We track more than 30 types of immunizations, screenings/surveillances, and injuries/illnesses. We’ve been honored with three Silver Stevie Awards, the world’s premier business awards, and Best Place to Work awards. We have delivered many exciting innovations for our customers, and even more are coming soon! Sharing our gratitude We are beyond grateful for our customers. They are central to why we exist, what motivates us to do meaningful work, and are vital to our future. Further, I am beyond proud of our Propelus team. We have had an exceptional first year as Propelus, and it is a true testament to our commitment to being a healthy, high-performing organization. One that embodies our values, the hustle & heart, passion & compassion, and determination makes Propelus an exceptional organization with an even brighter future – one that I am grateful and honored to lead. We are grateful for the progress we’ve made, and at the heart of everything we do is ensuring we meaningfully help safeguard our nation’s communities and workforce for safer, more compliant, healthier, and happier professionals. Cheers to Powering Professionals!
CE Broker and Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission Announce Compact Renewal Feature for State Medical Boards
CE Broker by Propelus, the leader in continuing education compliance management, and the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission (IMLCC) announced today that the CE Broker compact compliance verification tool is now available for all CE Broker medical board partners. Read the full announcement on CEBroker.com.
CE Broker by Propelus Launches Pro+ Subscription
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 6, 2024 – CE Broker by Propelus, the leader in continuing education (CE) compliance management, announced the launch of its new subscription offering, Pro+. Enhancing the CE Broker experience, Pro+ is an innovative subscription package that allows healthcare professionals to streamline how they seamlessly access, track, and manage their CE requirements. It also includes access to a vast library of approved, accredited, and official online CE courses all in one convenient location – making compliance simple and easy. The Pro+ subscription is now available for nursing professionals whose licensure boards are partnered with CE Broker. Coming soon, the Pro+ offering will be extended to many more healthcare licensure boards, creating new opportunities that power their licensed professionals’ continued growth and development. Read full news release with subscription details here.
Celebrating Student Nurse Day: Honoring the Future of Healthcare
A time to acknowledge and honor our future nurses Student Nurse Day is a perfect opportunity to recognize the dedication of those pursuing a career in nursing. Since registered nurses (RNs) undergo four years of nursing school to obtain their bachelor’s degree, it is meaningful to celebrate student nurses’ hard work and accomplishments. At Propelus, our mission is to power professionals throughout their careers, especially our future nurses. We understand the importance of supporting student nurses as they navigate their education and transition into their careers. In this blog, we’ll provide insights into the life of a student nurse, including their role in the healthcare system, the challenges they may face, their tech-driven learning environments, and ways you can support the student nurses involved with your organization on Student Nurse Day. The Role of Student Nurses in Healthcare Student nurses represent the future workforce. Despite sometimes not receiving as much credit as they deserve, their contributions are essential for improving patient care and advancing the nursing profession. Their dedication and hard work are critical components of the healthcare team, without which the system would struggle to function. Let’s take a closer look into some of the responsibilities of student nurses: Patient assignments Administering medications Performing a head-to-toe assessments Obtaining vital signs Bathing and dressing patients Feeding patients Charting all patient’s medical records Assisting with procedures Communicating with patients and family members Challenges Faced by Student Nurses Nursing school presents unique challenges due to the demanding nature of the nursing profession. According to the National League for Nursing, 20% of nursing students drop out, highlighting the program’s intensity. Unlike many other fields of study, student nurses face the rigorous challenges of clinical trials and real-life scenarios before graduating. They face a lot of pressure and expectations to perform at a high level. From juggling their academic load to the challenges of clinical rotations, all while dealing with financial burdens, it’s no wonder that student nurses experience a lot of stress. While these challenges can sometimes feel overbearing, they help prepare student nurses for their responsibilities when they become nurses. Let’s explore the three main areas where student nurses face these challenges in more detail. 1. Academic Challenges Academic challenges are a huge aspect of the student nursing journey. Employers expect student nurses to retain significant information within a short period. Their work requires a keen attention to detail, given its hands-on nature. From mastering procedures like starting an IV and inserting a catheter to conducting accurate patient assessments, they expect to excel in numerous areas simultaneously. Additionally, they must comprehend complex subjects like anatomy, physiology, clinical mathematics, and various medications’ names, actions, and side effects. Balancing each of these learning objectives, along with the curriculum and exams, creates a hefty workload on student nurses. 2. Clinical Challenges Nursing education blends intensive theoretical instruction in the classroom with extensive practical training in clinical settings. Unlike traditional classroom learning, clinical training offers nursing students opportunities for hands-on learning through exposure and application. The knowledge and principles learned early in nursing school are implemented to develop the mental, psychological, and psychomotor skills required for patient care (Jamshidi, Molazem, Sharif, Torabizadeh, and Kalyani). This dynamic learning environment is heavily focused on practical experience and comes with great stress and pressure. Frequently, students feel overwhelmed when demonstrating new responsibilities in front of their nursing instructors and peers during clinical rotations. The demands of these rotations can physically and mentally wear down students, causing many to drop out. 3. Financial Challenges Nursing school is costly for several reasons. For starters, tuition fees vary widely, ranging from approximately $7,000 for those pursuing an associate degree in nursing (ADN) to over $300,000 for students pursuing advanced graduate nursing degrees. The demanding nature of nursing programs, which includes attending rotating clinical placements and keeping up with the coursework, leaves little time for most nursing students to have a separate job. When living expenses are factored in, the financial burden can be substantial, adding to the stress experienced by students. Balancing these financial obligations along with academic and clinical responsibilities is extremely challenging and a big contributor to student stress. Celebrating and Supporting Student Nurses Student Nurse Day is an annual observance held on May 8th, coinciding with National Nurses Week. Its origins trace back to Dorothy Sutherland of the U.S. Department of Health in 1953 when she proposed for the U.S. to have a day dedicated to recognizing nurses. Although Sutherland’s initial proposal for a Nurse Day didn’t come to fruition, it spurred the recognition of National Nurse Week the following year. Sutherland played a pivotal role in bringing attention to the idea. Eventually, in 1998, the American Nurses Association established National Student Nurse Day to recognize student nurses’ diligence. In honor of Student Nurse Day, consider sharing stories and posts on your organizations’ social media platforms to highlight and acknowledge student nurses, sharing thank you notes with the students nurses involved with your organization, or providing a small token of appreciation. Resources for Student Nurses It’s common for student nurses to face burnout during their nursing education. A Swedish survey revealed burnout rates of 29.7% among first-year nursing students and 36.9% among second-year students. With burnout rates higher than most other academic paths, it is incredibly important for student nurses to seek out resources. Mentorship and peer support networks offer valuable insight into the field, providing advice and a listening ear when times get too overwhelming. It’s a great way to learn from others in the same position. Financial support through scholarship programs, grants, and financial aid is another avenue for students to explore. This assistance can significantly alleviate financial burdens in the long term. Here are some recommended organizations and programs offering resources for student nurses: American Nurses Association (ANA) community: Student Subscriber Program National Student Nurses Association, Inc. (NSNA): Prospective Nursing Student Resource Guide American Association of Nurse Practitioners: Student Membership Health Occupations Students Association (HOSA): Student Membership The
CE Broker by Propelus and Texas Medical Board Forge Alliance to Modernize Continuing Education
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 30, 2024 – CE Broker by Propelus, the leader in continuing education compliance, is proud to announce its strategic partnership with the Texas Medical Board. This collaboration marks a significant step toward modernizing continuing education management for more than 170,000 licensed professionals in Texas, including 100,000+ physicians. “The Texas Medical Board’s partnership with CE Broker is a win-win for the agency and the licensees it serves,” said Sherif Zaafran, M.D., president of the Texas Medical Board. “Licensees gain a powerful, new tool to help them easily track their continuing education credits, and the Board will enjoy a more modern and efficient approach to ensuring licensee compliance.” “The Texas Medical Board always strives to serve its licensees and the public through efficiencies that help assure compliance with minimum additional burdens,” Zaafran added. The partnership between CE Broker and the Texas Medical Board aims to revolutionize the continuing education process, empowering professionals with the tools they need to understand and easily manage their professional educational requirements proactively. CE Broker’s trusted platform helps streamline communication and collaboration among board staff, licensees, and educational providers. “We are excited to partner with the Texas Medical Board to bring about positive change in continuing education management. This collaboration underscores our shared mission in enhancing safety and ensuring quality health care for the citizens of Texas through licensure, discipline, and education.” – Julie Walker, CEO at Propelus Access to a CE Broker account will be available to licensed physicians in Texas starting in early June, with access for other professionals to follow. The Texas Medical Board will notify professionals by email when their access to CE Broker is available, at which point they can create their accounts at cebroker.com using their Texas license credentials. For more information about CE Broker, visit https://propelus.com/ce-broker. About CE Broker As part of Propelus, CE Broker is modernizing how professionals, their employers, regulators, and associations work better together. For over 20 years, CE Broker has propelled the progress of millions of dedicated professionals along the career journey through its full-lifecycle continuing education management solution. Leveraging innovative technology, essential data, and unparalleled strategic partnerships, we power critical compliance programs for a happier workforce, better operations, and safer communities. Learn more about CE Broker, powered by Propelus, at: https://propelus.com/ce-broker. Newswire news release