Practice Index

JULY 25, 2024

CrowdStrike crisis highlights concerns about IT backups The NHS needs to find an improved way of backing up its IT systems following the havoc caused by the CrowdStrike failure last week, a senior GP has said. The NAO says that the new local integrated care systems have developed partnerships and drawn up plans to prevent ill health.

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Practice Index

AUGUST 1, 2024

CQC shake-up pledge Practices have welcomed plans for a shake-up of the CQC after a review found major failings. Hope for end to trainee doctor strikes GP trainee strikes are expected to end following a deal between the medical unions and the Government.

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Practice Index

JUNE 27, 2024

The call has come from the Royal College of GPs following a consultation which involved 5,000 doctors. The college says it now wants to draw up new and detailed guidance on induction, supervision and scope of practice. He added: “If one part of the NHS crumbles, the rest will follow.

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Practice Index

APRIL 18, 2024

GPs go into contract dispute after rejection Last night, GP leaders declared a formal dispute over this year’s contract settlement following the overwhelming vote of doctors to reject it, warning of the threat of industrial action or other sanctions.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The practice serves 16,000 people and the latest project followed their installation of new phone systems. It follows the decision to enable pharmacies to advise patients on treatments for sinusitis, sore throat, earache, infected insect bites, impetigo, shingles and uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

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Practice Index

MAY 16, 2024

Practices will get support for periods of up to six months. It plans to deploy “experienced and skilled” facilitators to practices and set up group-based learning sessions to ensure experience sharing across practices. It followed the pausing of the GP Sustainability Loan Scheme.

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Practice Index

JUNE 20, 2024

The campaign was launched following a survey of practices undertaken in December. Royal College of GPs Chair, Professor Kamila Hawthorne, said: “As always, the devil will be in the detail and it is essential that these plans are backed up by sufficient funding for primary and community care.”

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Practice Index

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told practices he is “aware” of the problem, but following last week’s budget, ministers said practices or the NHS would have to cover the increase. Alarm at latest tech outage Practices have called for more choice in IT following the latest problems with the EMIS systems. Practices were awarded 4.4%

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“The NP workforce is in a constant state of growth to keep up with the rising demands of the healthcare system,” says Paula Tucker, DNP, FNP-BC, ENP-C, FAANP Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Director of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University. ” she says.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Welcome to part three of Three Trailblazing Hawaiian Nurses blog series – Alice Ting Hong Young – 1911- 1992: Hawaii’s First Nurse Midwife. She inspected midwife bags to ensure all the necessary equipment was present and clean, and she followed up on reports of lay midwives practicing without a license.

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Accepted Blog

AUGUST 28, 2024

Follow your medical school’s guidelines, and submit them as early as possible so you have time to incorporate any feedback. Once Applicant A gets matched to a program on their list (let’s say their second choice), they are removed from consideration for all programs lower on their list, which opens those spots up for other applicants.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Welcome to part one of Three Trailblazing Hawaiian Nurses blog series – Mabel Isabel Wilcox, First Registered Nurse in Hawaii. . Often on foot or horseback, she did case investigations, collected sputum samples, educated the community about the disease, and provided follow-up care to those diagnosed with TB.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I want to understand the needs of different nursing populations and bring a well-rounded global perspective to meeting the needs of our nurses and caregivers. Being a healthcare leader means listening closely to understand the intricacies of a challenge, thinking up out-of-the-box solutions, and asking for the expert advice of colleagues.

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

If you are more of a kinesthetic learner, then time spent on hospital rounds will be a great way to reinforce concepts. In medical school, it is often up to you to decide how best to spend your time. You might want to ask yourself the following questions: Do you see yourself in primary care? Use your time wisely.

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Minority Nurse

MARCH 15, 2023

March is National Kidney Month and Minority Nurse caught up with nephrology nurse Nancy Colobong Smith, MN, ARNP, ANP-BC, CNN to find out what it’s like to be a nurse in this specialty. Following my passion and having the support of mentors in finding my way was invaluable.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So I went from learning how to give a bed bath and make a hospital bed to serving as the executive director at this hospital and in a neighborhood close to where I grew up – it warms my heart. He rounds on the units daily and is very visible to staff. Anthony Hospital). What inspired you to become a nurse? It’s a huge responsibility.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

” I’m glad to report that we’ll be there before the end of the year, based on my meet-up with Omron Healthcare at #CES2018. Rounding out Omron’s #CES2018 announcements is their developing an Alexa skill for people using connected Omron devices that work with the Omron Connect App.

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Minority Nurse

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The following list is not exhaustive, but it provides a place to begin when taking a good, hard look at your situation. Are there grand rounds and other ways to learn? It All Comes Down to You In the final analysis, whether you stay or go is up to you. So, how do you decide? What about your job contributes to your growth?

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A Young Doctor's Journey

APRIL 20, 2023

You’ve come to the right place: in this blog post, I’ll share my highly * unbiased * thoughts on why EM is the greatest, and give some tips on things to know about applying to EM residency in the United States (especially as an international medical graduate aka IMG). I’ve got a lot to say on shiftwork so scroll down to see below!

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Accepted Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

The 2025 ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) application follows on last year’s restructured application, with a few changes. The AAMC site describes the various Primary Focus Areas as follows: Basic science (e.g., The AAMC site describes the various Primary Focus Areas as follows: Basic science (e.g.,

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Northwest Suburban College

JANUARY 25, 2024

In this blog post, we will explore the essential role that Dental Assistants, Medical Assistants, and Pharmacy Technicians play in improving patient education by providing clear, concise, and tailored information regarding healthcare procedures, medications, and self-care practices.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” Oxford Dictionary provides context for the definition as follows: To work, as in especially hard physical work. Halle took time with me to answer a few questions about Natalist for the Health Populi blog. I actually bought the domain “Baby Someday” on Feb 22, 2016, right after my first round of IVF.

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Setting Sights

MAY 2, 2022

I’ve written, erased, and rewritten this blog post over and over again, trying to string out the right words to express how this all feels, through the biggest lump in the throat, the tears, and the need to keep pinching myself with the reminder that this is now my reality – a relieving and overwhelmingly weightless, new reality.

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Setting Sights

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I guess the tolls and burdens of the last two years had finally crept up on me, and whilst I was at least out of those hospital walls for the first time in nearly two years, I was also completely on my own, with nobody to help me justify my new surroundings, the anxious feelings, or resolve them, for that matter.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 20, 2024

Building an Application Putting together a well-rounded professional application is crucial for a new graduate. Your first application packet will set you up for life and help you land a role with the salary, benefits, and responsibilities you’re looking for.

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Setting Sights

AUGUST 11, 2021

But, my colleagues’ wellbeing isn’t hanging in the balance just because of the taboo that comes with opening up on their mental health struggles, or that there is little time to address it on top of the day-to-day work pressures – it’s hanging in the balance because we are simply not supported full-stop. I called for help in person.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Some programs are very clear about not wanting anything but the primary and secondary applications, and you should always follow their instructions. There are always applicants who get later interviews, however, so don’t give up hope. Did your experiences and meaningful experiences reflect a well-rounded candidate?

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Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

So I ’ m thrilled to introduce you to a nurse living up to the mantra. Each stop of her nursing journey provided her with unique, colorful, resourceful, well-rounded, and practical, real-life experiences that have molded Nurse Alice into the nurse leader she is today. You do that because the public makes up the voters.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2024

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s (AACN) The Impact of Education on Nursing Practice report, the number of nurses with a BSN is growing, and positive results follow. Most hospitals and health departments prefer and only hire BS/BSN nurses,” says Bray.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As you think about healthcare compared to other services that you receive on a daily basis, we’re just lagging so far behind in terms of how we provide digital services to our patients, to consumers, how we do follow-up, how we provide education. And he saw that actually as a business issue. 8:39] Absolutely.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Share valuable articles and health tips with patients via a blog or social media. Athenahealth found patients without a no-show have an attrition rate less than 19% compared to a single no-show which goes up to 70%. Sometimes questions come up later. Follow the care continuum and assess what happens. What frustrated you?

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Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2023

But her education journey has provided unique, colorful, resourceful, well-rounded, and practical real-life experiences that helped mold Benjamin into the nurse leader she is today. So he picked up that habit and suffered severe health issues. It may sound very cliche, but I want to tell them not to give up. It may be a delay.

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Let’s start with some really easy questions: your background, where you grew up, and how on earth you got interested in admissions from biomedical engineering. [2:39] And basically I grew up in that city, that little small town in northwest Louisiana and now apparently the home district to our current speaker of the house.

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Accepted Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Part of what you do when you sign up for medicine is like you didn’t sign up to sit in the classroom. You signed up to go in the hospital and see patients. A lot of them talk about where they grew up or who influenced them during their careers. They’re way up there. with a median science GPA of 3.9.

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The Healthcare Blog

JULY 14, 2024

Nonetheless between mid 2021 and early 2022 Jess DaMassa and I were reporting on VC funding in a show called Health in 2 Point 00 (later Health Tech Deals) and every week there were several deals for $100m and up going into new health tech companies. You remember those huge rounds that Jess & I used to report on and make fun of?

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Practice Index

MARCH 7, 2024

It follows the imposition of the new GP contract with a funding increase of just 1.9%. The post Primary care news round-up (1st to 6th March 2024) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog. The campaign from the IGPM calls on patients to write to their MPs asking them to support the campaign.

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Accepted Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

So our students will select patients that they follow throughout the year in a longitudinal fashion. 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. Their curricula might be set up in a way that someone with experience is more successful versus not.

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