By the time an assassin’s bullet killed Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, the much-loved – and much-hated – SCLC leader had long become inured to the likelihood that he would not see his daughters grow up. Once […]
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Rogelio Lopez, who has been hospitalized for more than a year, had just one birthday wish. He wanted to see his four children, ages 6, 9, 11 and 13, in person. So, last Thursday, after intensive planning by his team
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A new Pennsylvania study published in Health Affairs shows that Medicare support for clinical training for nurse practitioners would increase their numbers and address the national shortage of primary care.  The study, by researchers at the Center for Health Outcomes
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No matter what your particular diagnosis, your neurodiversity is a part of who you are. It shapes the way that you experience, understand, and move through the world. It is both a challenge and a gift, an obstacle, and an
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Demanding that the hospital industry invests in safe staffing and that President Biden fulfills his campaign promise to protect nurses and prioritize public health, National Nurses United (NNU), the largest RN union in the United States, is calling for nurses
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Before Mary Venus was offered a nursing job at a hospital here, she’d never heard of Billings or visited the United States. A native of the Philippines, she researched her prospective move via the internet, set aside
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Despite the burden placed on nurses during the pandemic, applications to nursing programs are up. Many millennials seek careers in nursing, looking to fill the vacated positions as baby boomers retire and today’s nurses leave healthcare due to burnout. In
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As emergency changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were made permanent, the past year saw significant progress toward increased independent practice authority for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), according to the Nurse Practitioner’s 34th Annual Legislative Update. “Relaxation of
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A new study shows that the labor market for the nursing workforce tightened throughout the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in a period marked by falling employment and rising wages across the health care industry. The paper, “Nurse
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As the omicron variant brings a new wave of uncertainty and fear, I can’t help reflecting back to March 2020, when people in health care across the U.S. watched in horror as COVID-19 swamped New York City. Hospitals were overflowing with sick and dying patients, while
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