This week, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) leads the celebration of National Nurse Practitioners (NP) Week to mark the distinctive benefits of this career path. According to the AANP, approximately 248,000 nurse practitioners hold an NP license in […]
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Our Nurses of the Week are eleven nursing students from the George Washington University (GW) School of Nursing who traveled to central Uganda last month to provide medical care and educate local populations about heart health. The nursing students were
This month we celebrate family caregivers. The 2018 theme for National Family Caregivers Month is Supercharge Your Caregiving. President Clinton signed the first Presidential Proclamation in 1997 and every president since that time has followed his lead by issuing an
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The Philips School of Nursing (PSON) at Mount Sinai Beth Israel was recently named a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing (NLN). This is the school’s second consecutive designation in the category of “enhancing
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Raise your hand if you need this season’s first major holiday, Thanksgiving, to give you an extra push to focus on how much you have to be thankful for in your life. Most nurses do! But it doesn’t have to
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The Loma Linda University (LLU) School of Nursing and Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) have signed a new transfer agreement, which is LLU Nursing’s first transfer agreement with a public college. MSJC nursing students will now be able to transfer
The holiday season has almost started and there are less than two months left in 2018. This is the time of year when we can get reflective because it’s always surprising how quickly time passes. It seems like only yesterday
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According to the American Medical Association (AMA), physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is defined when a physician facilitates a patient’s death by providing the necessary means and/or information to enable the patient to perform the life-ending act. A variety of terms have
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Hartwick College recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of their nursing program with a day-long symposium on the future of nursing. Several seminars and sessions were offered, covering holistic caring, pediatric mental health, innovation, and the future of healthcare. One of the
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Two nurse scientists from the Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) recently received the 2018 RDML Mary F. Hall award for nursing publication. This highly acclaimed award was created to recognize the contributions to nursing made through professional publications. This
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