Nurse of the Week Kirsten Flanary has an abundance of the compassionate nature that is a defining characteristic among nurses. This week, she serves as an example of the many nurses around the country who are venturing out of their […]
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Laura Benson retired from nursing in 2018, but this week she reported for work again in New Rochelle, New York, where the first cluster of COVID-19 cases occurred in early March. “Nurses are used to giving of themselves,” she said.
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New York City makes its comeback as a notoriously high-decibel town every evening at 7.00PM. Before the advent of COVID-19, New York was America’s noisiest city. The standard volume of Manhattan streets was always at 11, day and night. On
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has announced the appointment of Susan Bakewell-Sachs, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and vice president for nursing affairs at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Nursing as Chair of the AACN Board
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During April, the nation recognizes National Minority Health Month. The COVID-19 crisis has renewed the urgency of staying as healthy as possible while simultaneously making it a little more challenging. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of
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As the nation battles COVID-19, the health policy world is quietly observing a milestone: the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As he was signing the bill into law on March 23, 2010, then-President Obama said, “The bill I’m
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to issue the rise in the number of youths who have been diagnosed with measles. This national outbreak of the highly contagious measles virus has been recorded as 1,282 individual cases
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A growing number of nurses and other first responders are living in self- isolation, cut off from the support and affection of their loved ones during the pandemic. To protect their families from the virus, many healthcare providers have been
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On its own, addiction can feel isolating. When coupled with stay-at-home mandates put in place to help quell the spread of COVID-19, living with addiction becomes even more challenging. Health professionals must evolve with mandated changes in order to better
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Nurses have long utilized a wide variety of creative gifts in treating patients, and our latest Nurse of the Week shares her vocal gifts in the act of caring for those in dire need of good cheer: hospice patients. Over
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