The first week of February is known for celebrating African Heritage and Health. The nonprofit nutrition- and food-focused group Oldways kicks off the beginning of Black History Month, with a focus on the nutritious foods that celebrate heritage, community, and […]
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All nurses should invest in malpractice insurance, but for nurse entrepreneurs who want to operate their own practice, malpractice coverage is essential. If you are planning to venture out on your own and create a healthcare business, you need to
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While Parkinson’s can be a difficult disease for many patients to deal with, there’s now a new online tool that can help them initiate helpful—and in fact, crucial—dialogue with their health care workers. We spoke with Karen Jaffe, MD, co-founder
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Our Nurse of the Week is Dana Lopes, a nursing instructor at the College of Saint Elizabeth who overcame growing up in poverty in rural Indiana and became the first high school graduate in her family before continuing on to
You’re good at your job. Perhaps you’re even great at it. No matter what, if you want to get ahead in your career, you need to trust yourself. On a daily basis, you may have confidence in the physicians, social
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Healthcare providers all over the globe are fighting the good fight, working to inculcate healthy hand hygiene habits among youngsters. In Ottawa, Canada, schoolchildren aged 6 through 9 are following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) six-step hand-washing routine while singing
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The U.S. nursing population has grown a bit more diverse in recent years, but most RNs are still white and female, according to a national survey from the Health Resources and Services Administration — and the average age is creeping
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The University of Texas at Tyler (UT Tyler) College of Nursing and Health Sciences has announced a new mental health nurse practitioner program aimed at addressing the mental health challenges in Texas. The Master of Science in Nursing–Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse
The first week of every February is designated as PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week, a week to raise awareness of and appreciation for the nurse in this specialty. As with many other areas of nursing, population changes and national health trends
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For more than a century, nursing has been thought of as the domain of women. But that has fluctuated over the last few centuries. Men actually dominated nursing through the mid-19th century. During the Industrial Revolution, men began leaving nursing
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