62-year-old former Army tanker, Tom Alligood, now serves as a nursing assistant in the emergency room at the Dorn VA hospital in Columbia, SC. He can usually be found working in camouflage scrubs to show his veteran patients that he’s […]
One afternoon in nursing school, I remember a professor spending nearly an hour exploring the difference between sympathy and empathy. To me, the inexperienced novice, those words were the same—synonyms, surely, both meaning some form of caring. But in reality, as
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Donna L. Murray who currently serves as the assistant director of Admissions and Recruitment at the JFK Muhlenberg School of Nursing in Plainfield, NJ has been elected President of the New Jersey League of Nursing (NJLN) for the 2016-2018 term.
The School of Nursing at King University in Bristol, Tennessee is pleased by the news that their Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program has received accreditation status. The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) granted the accreditation status for five
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If you are in the nursing profession, chances are you have faced a difficult physician. This may be all very familiar if you have had to defend your answers, reasoning, or judgement to a physician. I have been that nurse
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Most people are familiar with war films like “Saving Private Ryan” that show the lives of soldiers on the battlefield, but battlefield dramas don’t allow us to fully understand the military experience of soldiers. However, there have also been a
“You are so overburdened. The situation has made it impossible to give the care you need to. We need more of you. We need much better staffing ratios. It’s really that simple.” –Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois), author of Nursing Staffing
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Newly appointed inaugural Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing, Ann Kurth, is the dean of the Yale School of Nursing and an expert on global health. Kurth is a clinically trained epidemiologist whose research focuses on how to improve prevention,
After approval from the North Carolina Board of Nursing last week, Northeastern University announced it is now taking applications for a new accelerated bachelor of science in nursing (ABSN) program on their Charlotte Campus. Northeastern University is based on Boston,
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As a nurse, you spend your days caring for others in hospitals, rehab centers, in their homes, and many other places. Then you come home and may care for family members, spouses, children, and/or pets. But when do you take
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