When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the state budget into law, it secured improved health care access for residents in the state. New York joins 24 other states, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories in adopting Full […]
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The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has honored nurse and bioethicist Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN, with its 2022 Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career. Rushton receives the award for her exceptional contributions that enhance the
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Poring over historical pictures at the Good Samaritan Society long-term care facility in Algona, Iowa, is a person who’s been pivotal. “It opened in March of 1966 and I began employment in the summer of that year,” says Nurse of the Week
When you think of being a nurse, do you envision yourself wearing scrubs and treating patients in a hospital? Perhaps you think of taking patients’ vitals and administering medications, or moving between beds to care for the sick. While nursing
Two recent papers by UIC College of Nursing faculty found that microaggressions common, subtle indignities can be just as harmful as a major discriminatory event, contributing to negative mental and physical health outcomes in bisexual women. Associate professor Wendy Bostwick, PhD,
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Pamela Meharry, PhD, CNM, RN, first arrived in Rwanda in 2015, part of an ambitious initiative to train the healthcare workforce in the post-genocide country in east Africa. She was there to co-teach in the newly created Bachelor of Science
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For nursing education in a post-pandemic landscape, technologies such as simulation will continue to help educate students. And while plenty of people are interested in becoming nurses, not enough nurse educators may be available, and limited access to clinical placements
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On a monthly basis, we run a Q&A with a nurse in a particular job in the nursing field. This month, we interviewed Faith Lynch, MSN, RN, CNN (Certified Nephrology Nurse), Nurse Manager, Acute Dialysis at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island.
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Nearly 90% of COVID-19 patients who qualified for, but did not receive, ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) due to a shortage of resources during the height of the pandemic died in the hospital, despite being young with few other health issues,
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Minority Nurse recently caught up with David Nguyen, an early career nurse in Boston who decided when he was young that a career in nursing was his path. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Nguyen jumped full
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