In January 2009, the Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) staged the grand opening of the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona with Dr. Crista Johnson, MD, FACOG as the founding medical director. It is believed to be the only […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to issue the rise in the number of youths who have been diagnosed with measles. This national outbreak of the highly contagious measles virus has been recorded as 1,282 individual cases
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The government of Jamaica has asked the United States health sector to cease the poaching of its nurses. Jamaica Says to Stop Poaching Our Nurses was a report on National Public Radio earlier this year based on an interview with
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“There is a fabulously important role for the hyperbaric nurse to assist with care coordination,” says Nicholas Bird, MD, a physician with Duke Health in Durham, North Carolina, and the former chief medical officer and CEO of Divers Alert Network.
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There are three fundamental prerequisites for hiring a coach: 1) make sure that you are ready and willing to be coached; 2) choose one with whom you want to work; and 3) make sure your communication is authentic. Studies show
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In the days of long ago, the interaction between the interviewer and the candidate was designed to see whether the candidate could impress the interviewer with their technical knowledge first and foremost. It placed the candidate’s competencies against a very
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It is an enviable opportunity to provide healing services to a country in need by combining a fairly large, diverse, multidisciplined medical team. Three nurses on missions did just that, and in the process, they saw that one person can
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Outside a dining room in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill, I asked Congresswoman Karen Bass of California how nursing prepared her for service in Congress. Her response was quick: Good bedside manner. But she has had only
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Do you do not attach much significance to the question now asked while visiting your doctor or the hospital? It now becomes one of the questions that has assumed national prominence but also draws attention as to why another question
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It was an intentionally simple question the clinical nurse in the examining room heard. Lynn, I said, Have you ever been bullied? There came a pause. Then, she responded with a torrent of emotions reflecting anger and disappointment that took
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