People enter the health care industry for many reasons. Primary among these is the desire to make a positive impact on patients’ lives. Nurses are among the professionals having a direct impact in this regard. You don’t just treat people […]
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Becoming a nurse is no easy task, and for good reason. When you have a person’s health and well-being in your hands every day, you have to be highly trained, compassionate, and dedicated.  However, understanding the steps required to become
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Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. reached a grim milestone in 2020. The CDC estimates that 93,331 people died, representing the highest number of deaths recorded and a 29% increase over 2019. Opioid-involved overdose death rates rose 37% in 2020, with synthetic
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The COVID-19 pandemic caused nursing homes to rapidly change their policies overnight. Telehealth was instantly adopted widely in an effort to reduce stress on the health care system by keeping residents safe and avoiding unnecessary transfers to
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Last year was a nightmare for nearly everyone in health care. But for school nurses, 2021 has been worse. Since school doors opened this fall, school nurses have been working nonstop on COVID-19 contact tracing and quarantines. In most places,
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The role of the nurse has never been static. Patients’ needs are constantly evolving, and the conditions in which nurses are called on to provide care can never really be predicted. For centuries, nurses have had to adapt and improvise,
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A new study from the UK suggests that OR nurses, CRNAs and other surgical staff might soon be free to dispense with the time-consuming Covid-19 safety procedures such as having to don (and work under) additional layers of PPE and ½-hour delays for air changes.  According to a paper just published
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From the number of ounces in a cup to the first day of fall, online search engines such as Google put the answers to seemingly any question at our fingertips, making more knowledge accessible than ever before. But this on-demand
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Looking to build your career as a new Registered Nurse (RN), but not sure where to start? Discover a training program that will help bridge the gap between the classroom and real-world experience. New nurses and recent nursing program graduates: VA’s RN
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