This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a nurse who is also a model. When Sara Marlow Hunt, DNP, FNP-C, was just 12 years old, she wanted to get into
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Pre-COVID-19, most job interviews were conducted in person. You may have had an initial phone interview, but having your second or third interview on video wasn’t generally done. Welcome to a whole new world. If you haven’t regularly used video
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In research released late this summer, Brad N. Greenwood, PhD, the lead author of “Physician-patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns,” concluded that when Black newborns had care from a Black pediatrician, their mortality rate was decreased
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In the age of EHR, storing info on a cloud, and working on smart phones, it’s also a prime time for hacking. Nurses need to protect the security and privacy of their patients’ personal and health care-related info so it’s
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This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a nurse’s family farm. For 40 years, Eileen Shlagel, RN, CEN, has worked as a nurse, the last 30 of them in the
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Nurses spend countless hours on their feet. And it can cause them to hurt—a lot. So we consulted with a professional to find out how you can treat your feet right and avoid pain whenever possible. Dr. Grace Torres-Hodges, DPM,
The year 2020 hasn’t exactly been an easy one. If you turn on the news practically any night of the week, you can see people being mean to each other. But one nurse is trying to change all this—at least
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This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight Jax Nurses Buy Houses (JNBH). More than 10 years ago, when they were still in nursing school, Chris McDermott, MSN, APRN, AGNP-C
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Flight/Transport nurses travel throughout the country and even throughout the world. An issue in the field, though, is that not many minorities are choosing this line of work. So, how can we attract more minority nurses to flight nursing? Bob
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The Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled to strike the Patient Protection and ACA’s requirement for health insurance plans to cover the total costs of contraception. The American Nurses Association (ANA) released a statement about their disappointment in
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