In the summer of 2021, states began announcing COVID vaccine mandates for nursing home staff as a strategy to improve vaccination rates and help control COVID infections in nursing homes. The mandates came with concerns about ...
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Disinfectants and surgical smoke—the gaseous by-product produced by heat-generating surgical instruments—are among the hazardous chemicals to which physicians, nurses, and other hospital staff are exposed in operating ...
Oct 18, 2021
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Rural Americans suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's are less likely than city dwellers to be seen by specialists and receive tests that can benefit both them and their families, new research has found.
Aug 5, 2022
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In the largest nursing home study to date on the effect of a high dose (HD) flu vaccine, researchers found that vaccines with four times the antigen of standard flu (SD) vaccines significantly reduced the risk of respiratory ...
Jul 20, 2017
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Intensive care units (ICUs) are one of the most challenging and complex environments in today's health-care system. ICU nurses, who perform various tasks critical to ensuring the safety of patients under their care, are frequently ...
Mar 1, 2017
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Veterans Affairs patients with diabetes have similar health outcomes regardless of whether their primary provider is a physician, nurse practitioner (NP), or physician assistant (PA), according to a Durham VA Health Care ...
Jun 7, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Nurses with specialty certification may speed translation of evidence-based research into everyday clinical practice, according to a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Critical Care.
Jan 3, 2020
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New research from Victoria University of Wellington explores the conflict between the values of nurses and the values that drive healthcare delivery.
Dec 7, 2017
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Adopting and maintaining a healthy lifestyle might prevent up to 60% of inflammatory bowel disease cases—Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis—finds a large international study, published online in the journal Gut.
Dec 6, 2022
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A Florida hospital surgical intensive care unit (SICU) improved clinical alarm management practices and reduced nurses' self-reported alarm fatigue, according to a study published in Critical Care Nurse .
Apr 3, 2023
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