Emily Brown was stretched thin. As the director of the Rio Grande County Public Health Department in rural Colorado, she was working 12- and 14-hour days, struggling to respond to the pandemic with only five full-time employees for more than […]
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When pregnant women are tested for group B strep (GBS), some might wonder about how this particular bacteria can cause harm. July’s International Group B Strep Awareness Month aims to provide information and awareness around this potentially devastating pregnancy, birth,
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Jessica Crabtree knew she wanted to do work that mattered. The first step was going back to school to pursue a nursing degree at age 28. The next step was a little more up in the air. Then, as she
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Nurses receive some disaster training, but as one New York nurse recently remarked, “We learned about a pandemic in school maybe for one day. Like it was literally one slide in one class…” Remedying this problem is a key concern in
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Federal and state governments, national agencies, nursing schools, and hospitals need to create a better pandemic support structure for nurses, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. As nurses are expected to provide care
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As COVID-19 continues to sweep through the nation, researchers are realizing what groups of people are especially affected by it and are more susceptible to it, such as dialysis patients. Maya N. Clark-Cutaia, PhD, ACNP-BC, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing
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“Time management has been my best friend,” says Nurse of the Week Cailly Simpson. Although she left nursing in 2017 to study law at Rutgers, when the pandemic hit, the 26-year-old immediately felt an instinctive need to help. While continuing
The office is closed. The door is locked. If you need supplies, you make a request by email 24 hours in advance. Text when you get there and the supplies will be placed outside the door. Maybe by elves. I’m
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The benefits of certification can include “greater career success and satisfaction including higher pay, greater opportunity for advancement, and higher employability as well as higher self-efficacy,” according to a report by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nurses (BCEN). In
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This is part of a monthly series about side gigs—nurses with interesting side jobs or hobbies. This month, we spotlight a photographer. By day, Shannon Lynn Boxter, RN, works as a travel nurse at Duke University Medical Center, in the COVID ICU
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