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Exciting Nursing Career Paths for the Aging Nurse

Minority Nurse

A telehealth nurse may staff a patient advice line, perform care coordination functions, or help patients manage their medications and other aspects of their healthcare. Nursing triage can also often be performed very efficiently via phone or video.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Aneesah Coates

Minority Nurse

Aneesah Coates, BSN, RN, is an experienced psychiatric mental health nurse with nearly ten years of experience in acute care, long-term care, and home health care. As a nurse, I have worked in an acute care setting caring for lung transplant patients.

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Health Systems Must Move “Beyond the Walls” to Support Consumers’ Well-Being

Health Populi

” Once cared-for, the patient can be discharged back into their community, “beyond-the-walls” to home or other neighborhood care site for post-acute care, rehabilitation, or therapy for continued care and restored well-being.

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Nurses with Disabilities: A Skilled Workforce

Minority Nurse

Am I still the same person?’” Every Path Is Different Sandra Nosek, MSN, RN , has been a nurse for over 30 years with experience in management, staff development, QA wound care, long-term critical acute care, hospice, and skilled nursing facilities. It rocked my world and was very scary,” she says.

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How To Prepare for a Blizzard: Hospital and Health System Edition

Relias

Understanding the priorities within each unit and in relation to the larger organization can help determine triage protocols during a major outage and restoration efforts later. Categorize them as critical or noncritical based on a timeline of potential outage duration.

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Virtual Nurse Jobs and Telehealth: Help More People in More Places

Relias

Differences between virtual nursing and telehealth While both virtual nursing and telehealth aim to improve access and quality of care , they have some key differences. Telehealth , on the other hand, can involve other healthcare professionals such as physicians, pharmacists, therapists, and social workers.