As the nation battles COVID-19, the health policy world is quietly observing a milestone: the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As he was signing the bill into law on March 23, 2010, then-President Obama said, “The bill I’m […]
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A growing number of nurses and other first responders are living in self- isolation, cut off from the support and affection of their loved ones during the pandemic. To protect their families from the virus, many healthcare providers have been
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COVID-19 social isolation measures are designed to make the population safer, but the stresses of isolation can exacerbate the risk of child abuse. How can this pandemic period affect at-risk children, and what can we do about it? DailyNurse asked
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After a slow start, testing for COVID-19 has ramped up in recent weeks, with giant commercial labs jumping into the effort, drive-up testing sites established in some places and new types of tests approved under emergency rules set by the
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Nursing students, nursing schools, school nurses grounded after school closures, and retired nurses are all joining the fight against the rising pandemic. Here are just a few examples to be found across the United States: Jackson, Mississippi Seniors at Belhaven’s
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As the caseload of patients with the new coronavirus grows, masks and other personal protective equipment are in short supply — and nurses in Washington state are resorting to workarounds to try to stay safe. Wendy Shaw, a charge nurse
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Coping With COVID-19 On Tuesday, Dr. Jeanne Noble devoted time between patient visits to hanging clear 2-gallon plastic bags at each of her colleagues’ workstations. Noble is a professor of emergency medicine and director of the UC-San Francisco medical center
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As the U.S. battles to limit the spread of the highly contagious new coronavirus, the number of health care workers ordered to self- quarantine because of potential exposure to an infected patient is rising at an exponential pace. In Vacaville,
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With the ongoing online and television coverage of COVID-19, it can be hard to distinguish authoritative information from rumors, unsubstantiated statements, and sheer panic brought on by the excesses of mass media. In such a situation, the public particularly looks
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One in three women and one in four men have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during their lifetimes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This type of trauma necessitates urgent medical attention from trained sexual
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