Following the May 25 death of George Floyd, nurses and other healthcare providers have been taking action not only to protest the deaths of Black citizens at the hands of police, but also to draw attention to the severe knock-on […]
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A mental health crisis is beginning to emerge within the nursing community. Nurses are treating a high volume of patients, often without proper crisis response training or adequate supplies of PPE. We have already seen nurses and doctors take their
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Men’s Health Month is recognized every June, but it’s not a month exclusively for men. Men’s Health Month is an opportunity for men to learn more about their own health and how to protect it, but it’s also a time
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Isolated from everyone but healthcare workers clad in PPE and denied the comfort of family visits, COVID-19 patients exist in a lonely world. Nurse of the Week Marc Perreault uses his musical gifts to try to bring a little intimacy
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Stories on COVID-19 occasionally refer to the Spanish Flu, a devastating worldwide outbreak that came in three waves in 1918-1919 and took more lives than the notorious Bubonic Plague of 1347-1351. In an attempt to better understand the 2020 pandemic
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Opioid addiction isn’t taking a break during the coronavirus pandemic. But the U.S. response to the viral crisis is making addiction treatment easier to get. Under the national emergency declared by the Trump administration in March, the government has suspended
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In light of Florence Nightingale’s recent 200th birthday, it’s hard not to wonder—how would our founder of modern nursing be responding to the Coronavirus pandemic? Known as the “Lady With The Lamp,” Nightingale was noted for wandering the wards of
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Before COVID-19, Mollie Biewald, MD, was skeptical about using telemedicine for palliative care visits. But now, she has found herself holding iPads or iPhones at the patient bedside, helping families make difficult decisions. Over the past few weeks, some of
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As staff struggle to cope with the working conditions created by the COVID-19 crisis, nursing leaders may find themselves in new territory as they strive to support them. Eloise Cathcart, MSN, RN, FAAN, director of the nursing administration program at
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Telehealth has slowly been making inroads over the past couple of decades, and the spread of the coronavirus pandemic has only escalated its adoption. Doctors have been told to hold every visit possible remotely in order to cut down on
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