If this was 1950, parents all over the state would be losing sleep over this week’s polio infection in New York’s Rockland County. The poliomyelitis epidemic that hit the state in June-October 1916 killed 6000 during those six months and […]
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Nursing for me is about making a difference — and every day I’m making a difference in the lives of the people I care for. Take a Monday earlier this month. A patient of mine living with cerebral palsy was
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Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano, Ph.D., MSN, MBA, FAAN went to a Boston hospital for hip replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Inside were tissues, bar soap, deodorant, toothpaste,
Yesterday, the University of Rochester School of Nursing announced that they have selected Lisa A. Kitko, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN to head the program. Kitko, an accomplished scholar, researcher, educator, and clinician, will become the sixth dean of the School
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In the Covid era, we often hear (and can’t help but understand) that older nurses, resources exhausted by their pandemic ordeal, are retiring early. Nurse of the Week Mercedes “Mercy” Kallal, RN, however, has been a nurse for over half
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In May 2022, former nurse RaDonda Vaught was sentenced to three years’ probation for a fatal medication error, an unprecedented criminal conviction that echoed through the nursing community, and the implications of which are still to be fully determined. In
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The International Council of Nurses (ICN) says the alarming rise in the number of nurses taking strike action across the world is a direct response to governments’ failure to tackle the root causes of our fragile, severely weakened, and in
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On July 6, the Board of Trustees of The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) announced that the Dean of the Yale School of Nursing, epidemiologist Ann Kurth, PhD, MPH, MSN, CNM, FAAN, FACNM will become the first nurse to
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When it comes to staging pressure injuries (PI) and identifying moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) it can be challenging. Both types of wounds have similar presentation and show up consistently on the same parts of the body. Pressure Injury Basics Pressure
Nurses who think tapering opioid patients entails a long period of Defcon 2 or 3 vigilance now have more data to support that position. Researchers from the UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research conducted a 10-year study to examine
