A small clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health has found that eating during the nighttime—like many shift workers do—can increase glucose levels, while eating only during the daytime might prevent the higher glucose levels now linked with […]
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Prevention strategies and vaccinations reduced transmission by vaccinated workers with breakthrough infections A new study shows vaccinated healthcare workers who had breakthrough COVID-19 infections are at low risk of transmitting the virus to patients and colleagues in a health care
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Before you officially become a nurse, you must graduate from nursing school, become licensed as a registered nurse (RN), and apply for your first job. Once you are hired, you will attend your first nursing orientation at your hospital or
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Have you recently graduated from nursing school? Want to learn more about a nursing program that is structured for your success? VA’s Registered Nurse Transition-To-Practice (RNTTP) Residency Program can help. Bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when the nation went into lockdown, medical intensive care nurses and diabetes nurse practitioners partnered with a multi-disciplinary team at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to develop a new way
One in five individuals avoided healthcare during lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic, often for potentially urgent symptoms, according to a new study publishing November 23rd in PLOS Medicine by Silvan Licher of Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and
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You’re ready to switch your nursing specialty or start down your path — but how do you figure out where the best place to go is? Or maybe you have an idea of where you want to go, but you
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In a new study, we found that the overall U.S. gun violence rate rose by 30% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the year before. In 28 states, the rates were substantially higher between March 1,
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A recent field trip for nursing students at Western Carolina University provided some heartwarming and heartbreaking moments during a day of health care outreach. The 10 students traveled this month to assist with free dental services in Clarkston, Georgia, a
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Jennifer Grubb, our Nurse of the Week, is a military veteran who is now deploying her hard-earned experience to help others as a nurse. The PA native started her career in 2003 at the age of 20, when she served
