Scrubs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Nursing is challenging, demanding, and rewarding, but working the night shift as a nurse presents a unique set of challenges that many nurses struggle to overcome. Navigating these obstacles requires a strategic approach to maintain physical and mental well-being. Working nocturnal hours sees you constantly juggle energy levels amid the silence of the hospital corridors, struggle with disrupted sleep patterns , and face difficulties in maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

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Athena Career Academy

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In healthcare, medical assistants play a pivotal role, offering vital assistance to physicians and contributing to the seamless operation of medical offices. However, like any profession, medical assisting comes with challenges. Are you contemplating a career as a medical assistant? Gaining insight into the daily challenges that medical assistants encounter and learning effective strategies for overcoming them can give you a valuable advantage.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

It is July 1 st , 1988, Cara’s first day as a medicine intern on my ward team. She meets her existing patients and picks up a new one, Bill. Bill is 35 and has a severe cardiomyopathy. He is waiting a heart transplant but has been having worsening episodes of ventricular tachycardia (VT). He was a direct admission after an electrophysiologic (EP) study.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a sponsor of the annual Critical Care Transport Nurses Day on February 18, the Air & Surface Transport Nurses Association aims to raise awareness of this nursing career path while simultaneously celebrating the nurses who work in dynamic critical care transport settings. The critical care transport nursing specialty offers variations of work settings so nurses can work in settings including air transport, ground transport, and military transport.

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Science Based Medicine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Newborns are exposed to painful procedures for good reason every day. Treating pain is important in this population, and music might play a role. At least it definitely won't hurt. The post Music for Reducing Pain in Newborns first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Longtime cardiovascular nurse Diana-Lyn Baptiste, DNP, RN, CNE, FPCNA, FAAN , associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA) board member, gave Minority Nurse some insight into a career in the broad field of cardiac nursing. As the nation marks American Heart Month in February, Baptiste shares some of what makes this career choice a good fit for her.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Valant’s Treatment Plan Template for Behavioral Health Creating effective treatment plans is essential in behavioral health. They offer a structured roadmap for both practitioners and clients, making sure that everyone is on the same page. A comprehensive treatment plan template tailored for behavioral health promotes standardized and evidence-based care, ensuring that practitioners follow best practices while addressing the unique needs of each individual client.

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KevinMD.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The perception that our U.S. health care system is broken has become nearly fact among health care workers and the public alike. Many other countries are facing similar challenges, beyond the recent spotlight on our Canadian and British friends across the pond. The issue remains: Who are we to blame and more importantly, what can Read more… Blame game in U.S. health care: Who’s responsible and what’s the solution?

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Medbridge

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Whiplash injuries, commonly resulting from motor vehicle collisions (MVC), present a complex challenge for physical therapists aiming to optimize patient recovery—especially when neck and bodily pain becomes chronic. Because the critical period for intervention typically falls within the first 12 weeks post-injury, it’s especially important to perform early and thorough assessments on a patient-by-patient basis. […] The post 4 Innovations in Chronic Whiplash Therapy appeared first on MedBr

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Accepted Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Check out all the blog posts in this series: Identifying the Ingredients of a Winning Essay Finding a Theme for Your Statement of Purpose Writing Your Career Goals Essay How to Start Your First Draft of an Application Essay Revise and Polish Your Application Essays You’ve completed your first essay draft – this is a great milestone! Outstanding essays are not sprung into the world on the first try, however, so now it’s time to revise and edit.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Continuing a list of essential actions for Connect Care Launch 8 prescribers readying for launch May 4, 2024. Ensure that you have online ACCESS This one's easy. Make sure that you have a working Alberta Health Services (AHS) "Healthy" network username and password. These credentials are used to log in to AHS computers, email, Connect Care and many other systems.

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DropStat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The importance of nurses educating patients is well known and documented in studies showing that patient education results in greater patient compliance and leads to better health outcomes. Moreover, healthcare is increasingly shifting towards patient- and consumer-centered healthcare. Self-care by patients requires education as part of standard nursing practice, using strategies such as family education.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Thank you for continuing to check the Connect Care update blog for prescribers (ideally, subscribe to multiple channels; see instructions ).

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