IMPLICIT BIAS: In Nursing [RN]

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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Implicit or unconscious bias is not intentional, but it has a detrimental impact. Implicit bias in nursing affects nurses’ quality of life and patient outcomes. In a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, researchers found that 79% of nurses experienced or observed racism or discrimination from patients and 59% saw or experienced it from colleagues.

Asian and Black nurses are particularly likely to have experienced racial aggression, and 94% of Asian and 93% of Black nurses report that it has affected their mental well-being.

Explore more about implicit bias, including how it impacts nurses and patients. Discover some components of effective implicit bias training for nurses.

READ: https://nursejournal.org/articles/combating-implicit-bias-in-nursing/

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SUSTAINABILITY Defined

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. There are many different approaches to Sustainability, with motives varying from positive societal impact, to wanting to achieve competitive financial results, or both.

Methods of sustainable investing include active share ownership, integration of ESG factors, thematic investing, impact investing and exclusion among others.

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INVESTMENT STRATEGIES: Market Neutral and Extended Equity

Posted on November 14, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Equity market neutral strategies seek to eliminate the risks of the equity market by holding up to 100% of net assets in long equity positions and up to 100% of net assets in short equity positions. These strategies attempt to exploit differences in stock prices by being long and short in stocks within the same sector, industry, market capitalization, etc. If successful, these strategies should generate returns independent of the equity market.

Equity market neutral portfolios have two key sources of return: 1) the Treasury Bill return (the interest on proceeds from short sales held in cash as collateral), and 2) the difference (the “spread”) between the return on the long positions and the return on the short positions. Stock picking, rather than broad market moves, should drive most of a market-neutral strategy’s total return (save for any return from the 100% cash position).

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Extended Equity Strategies attempt to provide better returns than possible with long-only investments

An example of an extended equity strategy is a 130/30 portfolio, which gets its designation from taking a 130% long position and a 30% short position. In practice, this would mean $100mm invested in stocks that are viewed as attractive.

Next, the manager would borrow and sell short $30mm of unattractive stocks. Then the manager uses the proceeds from the short sale to buy an additional $30mm of attractive stocks. This results in a portfolio that has 130% long and 30% short exposure to stocks, or “extended” exposure to equities relative to a long-only, 100% stock portfolio.

Note: It’s important to point out that here is the risk of theoretical unlimited amount of loss with short selling, (i.e. the price of the short-sold stocks increases; the long position can only go down to $0).

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

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TEXAS: Stock Exchange?

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

TXSE versus NYSE?

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A group leading the charge for an “anti-woke” TXSE exchange sees an opportunity to capitalize on 1) the Southeast’s skyrocketing economy and 2) growing disillusionment with perceived burdensome regulation at the New York-based exchanges.

The TXSE pledged to be more “CEO-friendly,” drawing a clear distinction from the NASDAQ, which requires companies on the exchange to meet a diversity requirement or explain why they can’t.

The Texas Stock Exchange will focus on enabling U.S. and global companies to access U.S. equity capital markets and will provide a venue to trade and list public companies and the growing universe of exchange-traded products. TXSE will be a fully electronic, national securities exchange that will seek registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

MORE: http://www.TXSEGroup.com

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PODCAST: Health Insurance Denials Contradict DEI, ESG and Fairness Initiatives

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Eric Bricker MD

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CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/0826102549

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ORDER: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Health-Insurance-Managed-Care/dp/0826149944/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275315485&sr=1-4

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