Health
Family caregivers can help shape the outcomes for their loved ones—an ICU nurse explains their vital role
The floor nurse had just told me that my new patient—let's call her Marie—would not stop screaming.
Apr 10, 2024
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Medical economics
Nurses cite employer failures as their top reason for leaving
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR)—published in JAMA Network Open—showed that, aside from retirements, poor working conditions are ...
Apr 9, 2024
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Medical economics
Motivations for travel nurses accepting temporary assignments go beyond the big pay boost
Travel nurses take short-term contracts that can require long commutes or temporarily living away from home. Time and again, they have to get used to new co-workers, new protocols and new workplaces.
Apr 1, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Community mental health nurses in GP surgeries help patients well-being
Community mental health nurses based at GP surgeries can significantly improve patient outcomes, a new study shows.
Mar 27, 2024
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Health
Study shows Latino and Black fathers' perception of sons' sexual readiness is key to effective condom guidance
A new study from Annals of Family Medicine reveals that a father's understanding of his son's readiness for sexual relationships plays a crucial role in the timing and effectiveness of discussions regarding condom use guidance. ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Medical economics
Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes
Shelly Olson's mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the facility, then owned ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Health
Shortage of primary care doctors could bring crowded ERs: Study
Americans living in areas where primary care doctors and nurse practitioners are in short supply face a greater risk for emergency surgeries and complications, new research shows.
Mar 16, 2024
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Specialized nursing facility clinicians found to improve end-of-life care
Specialized nursing facility clinicians, or SNFists, may decrease the likelihood of nursing home residents experiencing stressful hospitalizations and improve the quality of life in their last days, according to researchers ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Health informatics
Absence of AI hospital rules worries nurses
For nurse Judy Schmidt, the beeping monitors hooked up to critical patients at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey, were just a normal part of the whirlwind of activity in the intensive care unit.
Mar 7, 2024
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Virtual reality simulation improves PICU nurses' recognition of impending respiratory failure
A virtual reality (VR) curriculum at an Ohio children's hospital helped new nurses hone their ability to recognize when critically ill pediatric patients are showing signs of impending respiratory failure, according to a ...
Mar 4, 2024
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