If the last two years have taught us anything, it is the profound role that public health nurses play in keeping our families, our communities, and our world safe. The life of a public health nurse is not always easy […]
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Cross Country Healthcare, Inc., a leading provider of staffing solutions for healthcare clients, has released the results from a nationally represented survey of nurses and nursing students showing that the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced long-lasting negative perceptions of their future
HELENA, Mont. — One Montana hospital went into lockdown and called police after a woman threatened violence because her relative was denied her request to be treated with ivermectin. Officials of another Montana hospital accused public officials of threatening and
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Health care providers know that climate change will cause major health issues in the coming years. The CDC reports that climate change can cause increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries and premature deaths related to extreme weather events, and other
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As the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the country and universities shifted to online learning, nursing programs needed a new way of providing clinical experiences to students. Taking a cue from longtime online nursing programs like the RN to BSN, universities
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Wendy Likes, PhD, DNSc, APRN-Bc, FAANP, said that as an MSN student in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the 1990s, she never thought she would be a faculty member, much less the
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During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many hospitals tightened restrictions on visitors and who could access certain areas. This meant that no photographers, videographers, or others could visually document what was happening inside COVID-19 intensive care units. However,
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Throughout history and even now, nursing has been viewed as a female profession. With roots anchored deep in the Catholic Church, history shows it was nuns from religious nursing orders who rushed to care for injured soldiers during the Civil
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Since March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has put an unprecedented strain on the American health care system as large surges of intensive care unit patients overwhelmed hospitals. Facing this challenge, Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) expanded ICU
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World AIDS Day is designated as December 1 every year and 2021 marks more than 30 years of this worldwide observance. The day is chosen as a time to spotlight the impact of HIV/AIDS, support those who are living with
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