In nursing school, you may have learned that health care provider bias can literally endanger a patient, but when an instructor explains this, a least a few classmates will probably imagine their parents scoffing. Even if you can’t imagine your […]
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Assessing patients for cognitive impairment at hospital discharge can help identify those who are at higher risk of developing new severe physical disabilities, according to new research in American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC). Researchers at Montefiore Medical Center, the university
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Nurses just aren’t wired to be bystanders. When you see someone hurt or sick, you run to them because that’s part of who you are. And, after two years of working in a deadly pandemic amid a horrifying lack of
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Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, is the new president of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) board of directors. She began her one-year term on July 1, 2022. “The future of nursing and health care is unknown, and the COVID-19
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In El Paso, Texas, men lined up outside the Corner of Hope, a homeless resource center, eyeing free supplies on plastic shelves inside a white van. Some wanted bags with toiletries or condoms, but others took kits that help them
If this was 1950, parents all over the state would be losing sleep over this week’s polio infection in New York’s Rockland County. The poliomyelitis epidemic that hit the state in June-October 1916 killed 6000 during those six months and
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Nursing for me is about making a difference — and every day I’m making a difference in the lives of the people I care for. Take a Monday earlier this month. A patient of mine living with cerebral palsy was
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Nursing for me is about making a difference — and every day I’m making a difference in the lives of the people I care for. Take a Monday earlier this month. A patient of mine living with cerebral palsy was
With Nurses At The Frontline of Healthcare, It’s Time To Stop Putting Their Needs Last Read More »
A career in nursing is a reliable and meaningful way to make a living; it’s also one that continues to have exceptional industry growth. The job site Indeed recently released its list of the top 10 hottest jobs of 2022
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Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano, Ph.D., MSN, MBA, FAAN went to a Boston hospital for hip replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Inside were tissues, bar soap, deodorant, toothpaste,
