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“The Front Line Is Shrinking:” Nurses Re-Imagine Nursing at the #NurseHack4Health Hackathon

Health Populi

While nurses were in short supply before 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and stress on front-line health care workers exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff globally.

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2021: Lessons from Loss – ‘Never Give Up’

Setting Sights

And 2020-2021 has been no exception. When I was transferred to another hospital four hours away, the fear of another unknown ate into me so deeply that I felt sick and utterly worthless. Nor was 2020. We’ve all fallen to our knees and crumbled. Every single one of us. This year has been so incredibly unkind and unforgiving.

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The Words I Thought I’d Never Say – ‘I’m Going Back To Medical School’

Setting Sights

2020 marked the start of my hellish journey, and a hellish journey it was for so many , but for me it meant a bunch of new, life-changing diagnoses, a kind of sentence that would mean everything changing, nothing ever being the same again. I underwent surgeries for feeding tubes, venting tubes, and a suprapubic catheter.

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One Pandemic, A Million Mind-Games

Setting Sights

The Consultant had previously told me on ward-rounds, “You made yourself come in. On the next ward round, I asked to see someone – 7 months into my hospital admission and I needed to address my mental wellbeing. From then on, there were occasions where I had to remove my hearing-aids during the ward-round. I had nothing left.

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The Young, Female Patient: Sexism, Treatment inequalities, and a Breakdown in Trust

Setting Sights

Each morning, the doctors came round to the bedside, barely taking one look at my desperate face, before finally making brief eye contact and clearing their throats. Before my eventual transfer to another hospital, 8.5 Nobody even thought to investigate it much further either. BMI is fine. All reflexes intact.

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Accepted: Your Guide to CU School of Medicine [Episode 599]

Accepted Blog

He has been an assistant dean for admissions at the University of Colorado School of Medicine since 2020. And so if you’re seeing a patient in clinic and they get hospitalized, you might then go round on them in the inpatient hospital. You became a director of admissions in 2020. 1:38] Thanks for having me, Linda.