Virtual college tours are quickly becoming a reality for many prospective students. Sure, there’s nothing that can compare to the experience of an in-person, feet-on-the-ground visit to your preferred colleges, but even before the COVID era, the cost of travel […]
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June is recognized as Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness month and during this month nurses act as excellent resources for their patients. Whether your primary patient population is young or old, education about taking care of this essential organ is important.
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Although COVID-19 is best known for damaging the lungs, it also increases the risk of life-threatening brain injuries — from mental confusion to hallucinations, seizures, coma, stroke and paralysis. The virus may invade the brain, as well as starve the organ of oxygen
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As the number of female Veterans has grown — tripling in just the last 20 years — VA has pivoted its care models to meet their needs. Women are the fastest growing Veteran group, accounting for about 10% of the nation’s Veterans.
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In the last two months, the world has begun to recognize and acknowledge what anyone in the health care field has always known: that nurses are society’s real superheroes. And yet for all the praise and adulation being heaped on
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You can measure the massive toll of COVID-19 in various ways: the lives lost; the jobs eliminated; the strain on the health care system. For nurses, the toll can also be measured in the emotional and mental distress and anguish
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His run-in with the novel coronavirus was a harrowing experience, and the memory of his 24 days in treatment is foggy, but Clevelander Larry Davis remembered his nurses well enough to return after his recovery—with a gift of 15 pounds
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Chronic pain patients expressed high satisfaction with medical cannabis despite clinically insignificant changes in pain scores, a prospective study showed. Of a subset of chronic pain patients who used both medical cannabis and opiate drugs, 76% successfully tapered their opioid
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If you hadn’t heard of telehealth before the coronavirus pandemic, you probably know about it now. Medical providers are trying to move as many of their appointments to virtual means as they can. While telehealth options have been around for
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Technology is leading the way as hospitals and clinics around the world fight coronavirus. The latest medical software and health care tech help health care providers give patients the lifesaving care they need as they test and treat COVID-19. From
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