21-year-old Emma Young has been singing and playing piano since she was 10 years old. She recently used her musical talents to make patients smile as the hospice facility where she works when she sat down to play Adele’s cover […]
Whether you’re working in a hospital, a rehab facility, an assisted living care facility, or doing home health care, chances are that, at some point, you will come across patients who are at a high risk for falling. According to
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Wallace State Community College’s (WSCC) School of Nursing joined an exclusive club this week after being designated a Center of Excellence in Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing (NLN). The NLN awards only 15 institutions per year as
According to Abraham Brody, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, Assistant Professor at the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing (NYU Meyers), healthcare professionals in academia who receive formal mentorship by senior faculty early on in their careers experience a host
Kara Bellucci, this year’s Minority Nurse Scholarship winner, never considered nursing as a potential career. Lacking the confidence to dive into hard sciences, and with a real passion for family, race, and class issues, Bellucci’s life changed when she spent
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When patients are diagnosed with diabetes, they often can feel scared, lost, and/or confused. So when part of your job as a nurse is to educate diabetic patients about the condition and the changes they need to make in their
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Dr. Patricia Burke is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the Touro College School of Health Sciences in New York City. She was recently chosen as the new President-Elect of the New York League for Nursing (NYLN), a subsidiary of
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A recent regulatory proposal put forth by the VA to ensure that veterans have direct access to advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), including nurse practitioners (NPs), has caused a lot of controversy. If authorized, the proposal will allow NPs to
Amelia Ballard who was hospitalized for more than two years as a young child had already beat leukemia twice by the time she was 5 years old. After undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Children’s
Health care facilities occasionally experience shortage of staff. In such situations, they turn to travel nurses from other locations to fill in for their permanent staff. There are several travel nurse staffing providers in the country to help hospitals/clinics to
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