The pandemic is forcing college students to make grave decisions that would have been inconceivable a year ago, and many are operating with minimal guidance. Although people in their late teens and early twenties with COVID are less likely to
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Nurse of the Week Andrea Dalzell was just 5 years old when she was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder caused by inflammation in the spinal cord. Before long, she needed a wheelchair to get around, but that simply
Although health workers constitute about 3% of the population in most countries, they comprise 14% of COVID-19 cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), and in some countries account for up to 35% of COVID cases. WHO Director-General Tedros
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Who was Biddy Mason? After her portrait was found in a group of Works Project Administration (WPA)-era murals slated for destruction, a flurry of media reports has fostered a growing curiosity about Mason’s place in the pages of Black history
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Data from National Nurses United (NNU) suggests that while only 4% of US nurses are Filipinos, some 30% of the nearly 200 RNs who have died from COVID-19 are Filipino Americans. NNU believes that overall, nurses are primarily endangered by
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Immigrant women receive dubious hysterectomies and staffers openly neglect even basic COVID precautions at Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center, says LPN Dawn Wooten in a complaint filed by four non-governmental organizations. According to Wooten, the private immigrant detention facility has
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This is Nephrology Nurses Week, and our latest Nurse of the Week is RN Sandy Nichols, who treats acute dialysis patients in hospitals in Albuquerque. When there was a call for nurses willing to volunteer in COVID hotspots, Sandy stepped
Unprecedented numbers of patients have been placed on mechanical ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being connected to a ventilator can take a massive toll on the body and mind, and we know that the ordeal can contribute to Post-ICU Syndrome
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Enterprise High School students refused to allow anti-mask protesters to disrupt the start of the new school year. Senior Dalee Cobb, a cheerleader and javelin thrower, declared, “I feel like the opinion of parents and adults in general right now
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Every nine minutes, a life is lost to blood cancer, so Nurse of the Week Heidi Gould didn’t take it lightly when she received a request for another special blood donation. Gould was busy treating COVID patients in the ICU
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