Nurse of the Week Ellen Mulkerrins, BSN. RN, OCN has always stood out for her empathy, compassion, and standards of care. The Daisy Award winner cares for cancer patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering—with emphasis on the word “care”–and as Michelle Sottile, […]
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This is the second part of a special two-part article on the importance of nurse preceptorship and mentoring. Click here to read Part One. Ethical Standards, Just Culture, and the Faculty/Mentor/Preceptor – Student Relationship Ethics and standards in nursing are
Conferences have moved to a virtual format and will likely remain that way for a while. Traveling to and spending days at conferences in rooms and events full of people might be one of the last return-to-normal business practices we
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Nearly overnight, the coronavirus pandemic transformed health care, including perinatal care. Anticipating more and more COVID-19 patients, hospitals needed to create space quickly, both to manage the influx of patients with the disease and to protect non-infected patients from exposure
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Teaching, precepting, mentoring, guiding, or instructing are all used interchangeably when describing the role that one takes to teach another in any setting. Effective and passionate role models, who are willing to guide another to learn in the work or
Like other largely rural states bearing the brunt of the brutal SARS-CoV-2 holiday spike, Oklahoma hospitals are scrambling to care for patients amid overcrowding, understaffing, and bed shortages. The state estimates that at present there are at least 1,000 Covid-19
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Although more than 3 million people in the United States have glaucoma, awareness of this eye disease, how it starts, and how it progresses isn’t widespread. The Glaucoma Research Foundation says January’s Glaucoma Awareness Month, can help people become more
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As Los Angeles hospitals give record numbers of covid patients oxygen, the systems and equipment needed to deliver the life-sustaining gas are faltering. It’s gotten so bad that Los Angeles County officials are warning paramedics to conserve it. Some hospitals
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Caroline E. Ortiz, MS, MPH, RN, NC-BC, Associate Professor, Holistic Nursing, Pacific College of Health and Science, grew up in a bicultural and bilingual household. So it’s not surprising that she learned a great deal about traditional healing practices of
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No one enters the health care profession because they want to discriminate against their patients. You don’t sacrifice years of time and energy, tears and sweat, just to indulge your biases and serve your stereotypes. But the simple truth is
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