When she was just four years old, Taylor had a hairsbreadth escape when her family’s apartment in New York City’s SoHo caught fire. After rescuing Taylor’s mother from the blaze, firefighter Eugene Pugliese rushed back into the building when the […]
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In 2001, Noriyuki Matsuda, CEO of Sourcenext, realized a need—people wanted to be able to understand others when they didn’t speak the same language. He wanted to create a mechanism that could do this. But at the time, the hardware
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From Boston to San Bernardino, California, communities across the U.S. are declaring racism a public health crisis. Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate impact on communities of color, as well as the killing of George Floyd in the custody of
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Hundreds of registered nurses marched outside the 478-bed Riverside Community Hospital in California for eight hours Monday during the fourth day of a 10-day strike. They accuse their administrators of ordering staff reductions that have resulted in dangerously high nurse-to-patient ratios that
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Nurses in every clinical practice specialty will encounter a patient who is dying and will provide care to that patient as well as give support to the patient’s family. This is not a new phenomenon and the experiences of nurses
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Black Lives Matter. These three words have been used countless times in protests and in the media. As a result of the protests, more people are talking about racism and how it affects people who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and
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Nurse of the Week Danielle Fenn understands the vital role of communication in nursing. Fenn, an RN at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is originally from Brazil, and during the COVID crisis she used her knowledge of Portuguese
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The UConn School of Nursing is pleased to announce it has received a nationally competitive grant award from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration for a groundbreaking program. The innovative PATH to PCNP Clinical-Academic Partnership aims to increase diversity
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Scott, CNM, realized that she needed to take additional steps to keep her patients safe. As the pandemic rose in severity, Jennifer, whose primary patient base is a local Mennonite community in the
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Social media can be a fantastic way of keeping in touch or sharing information, but it can also be a hotbed of controversy. Elizabeth Hanes, an RN who now works as a journalist, unexpectedly experienced this herself, when Dr. Sandra
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