The brain controls everything, says longtime neuroscience nurse Patricia Lane, MBA, BSN, SCRN, FAAN. Neuroscience is the top of the top. Lane, president elect of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses and past second vice president of the National Black […]
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Covid survivors are at risk from a separate epidemic of opioid addiction, given the high rate of painkillers being prescribed to these patients, health experts say. A new study in Nature found alarmingly high rates of opioid use among covid survivors with
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If the throes of recent health emergencies have taught the healthcare industry anything, it’s that healthcare workers deserve better. According to a recently published Shift Work Report, 96% of workers, including healthcare workers, agree that shift workers deserve more respect.
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The health care field is pivoting to adopt improved telehealth services wherever possible in the wake of COVID-19 and a broad virtual shift. Telehealth can be a tool for nurses to expand their expertise and bring greater flexibility to patient
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Whether you are focused on being a clinician, an educator, in shaping health policies—or a combination of these—earning a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree helps you gain the skills and assemble the tools you need to be a force
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It’s taken two years and $1.2 million to get Rhode Island’s 911 system ready to provide CPR and other medical instructions to callers. The system should be working in June. Rhode Island is the last state in New England to
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Last December, the FDA reported on both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine and the respective race and ethnicity of their research participants in the Phases 2 and 3 research trials. The Pfizer trial included ages 16 or older and
It was late March 2020. Covid-19 had landed in the US, had washed through Seattle and ventured into the Big Apple, though as yet had only killed a few hundred New Yorkers. As the month drew to a close, Covid
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International Nurses Day on May 12 honors nurses worldwide with a day of celebration for all the work they do to care for patients, people in their communities, and those they know and love. The past year has been one
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New data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that reported annual cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the United States continued to climb in 2019, reaching an all-time high for the sixth consecutive year.
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