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Mental Health Crisis in Miscarriage–an Unrepresented Patient Population

The Healthcare Blog

I handed them the same box of single ply tissues I was now sobbing into, as I handed them a pen to sign their discharge paperwork. Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden. I’m sorry for your loss”.

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Beyond Stigma: Why Addressing Maternal Mental Health Means Confronting Systemic Failures

The Healthcare Blog

The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals. Anxiety was noted several times throughout her hospital stay. ” Her discharge notes state Difficulty coping with anxiety for past 1-2 weeks.

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ICU Nurse Saves Infant Who Stopped Breathing at the Grocery Store

Scrubs

Binta Diallo was at the urgent care clinic at the local H Mart in North Carolina because her son needed a physical for football and they couldn’t get an appointment at the doctor’s office. Diallo said no amount of hospital training could have prepared her for that fateful day in the grocery store. “I’ve

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Primary care news round-up (13th February to 19th February 2025)

Practice Index

Patients stressed by failing NHS admin NHS admin has become dysfunctional, leading to thousands of test results being lost and patient appointments becoming confused, according to a new study. They describe a patient who found themselves discharged from a service for failing to attend an appointment, in spite of their efforts to reschedule.

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Highs and Lows

Sensible Medicine

Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit.

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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

We wait to be discharged. ” If you’re waiting to be discharged from the hospital, what time you’ll be able to leave is anyone’s guess since one hand often doesn’t know what the other hand is doing. Doctors see patients in rushed 15-minute appointments, often without a cursory physical exam.

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Magnet Status Matters: What Magnet Recognition Means for Hospitals and the Nurses Working There

Minority Nurse

Hospital administrators across the nation advocate the merits of Magnet designation. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an affiliate of the American Nurses Association, awards Magnet status to hospitals that satisfy designated criteria that measure the strength and quality of the institution’s nursing care.