Of all the things nurses have on their worry lists right now, you’d think credit fraud shouldn’t be close to the top. But a rash of criminal activity and credit fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic has caused everyone to pay […]
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Nurses have had a particularly challenging year. This year, we’ve seen an intense pandemic strain healthcare workers while simultaneously experiencing a powerful social uprising against racism in the United States. The two major events have some common touchpoints where social,
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When pregnant women are tested for group B strep (GBS), some might wonder about how this particular bacteria can cause harm. July’s International Group B Strep Awareness Month aims to provide information and awareness around this potentially devastating pregnancy, birth,
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Summer is here and the living is supposed to be easy. But for nurses, especially in 2020, the summertime looks like it’s going to be pretty busy. Are you looking for an energy boost? Even as cases of the coronavirus
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Today is World Sickle Cell Day—a day designed to spread awareness and understanding of sickle cell disease–an often painful inherited blood disorder. The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA) is marking the 10th year of this recognition. There is
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Nursing assistants (NA) have been essential members on healthcare teams throughout the COVID-19 crisis. And while the pandemic continues to spread around the world, National Nursing Assistants Day on June 18 is timed to thank nursing assistants for the care
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June is recognized as Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness month and during this month nurses act as excellent resources for their patients. Whether your primary patient population is young or old, education about taking care of this essential organ is important.
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Men’s Health Month is recognized every June, but it’s not a month exclusively for men. Men’s Health Month is an opportunity for men to learn more about their own health and how to protect it, but it’s also a time
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As the nation struggles through the health, social, and economic upheaval of the COVID-19 crisis, nurses are at the crux of it all. As nurses cope with the physical and emotional impact of working with so many critically ill patients
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Critical care nurses, those who work on critically ill patients in intensive care units, emergency departments, and other units, have likely had some of the most intense moths of their careers this spring. As the last week of National Critical
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