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Travel Nursing is in high demand and my Travel Nursing Agency “Valley Health Care Staffing” will work to get your Nursing Dream job. If you’ve ever wondered how you could make the most of your nursing profession education and experiences then Travel Nursing is your answer. This will enhance your Nursing Resume by career advancement possibilities that comes with awesome nursing benefits which include: access to competitive high pay, free housing, work/life balance, professional experi
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Barbie is having a moment, marketers agree. This weekend, many of us will buy movie tickets (yes, to see “real” movies in “real” brick-and-mortar cinemas) to see both the new film Oppenheimer along with the Barbie movie. So many movie-goers will be making it a double-feature experience that started as a meme, the portmanteau “Barbenheimer,” to mark the cultural-phenomenon moment.
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Shutterstock | Alexander Raths Nurses know best the importance of taking care of oneself—from logging enough sleep each night to taking it easy when a case of something more than just the Mondays starts to rear its ugly head. So—why aren’t nurses taking a page from their own book. Or, more accurately, why can’t they? As it turns out, your fellow nurses had quite a bit to say in response to that very question on the ScrubsMag Facebook page.
I am worried about the state of medical science and our journals. At the risk of sounding naive, I want to believe that people who choose academic medicine do so to answer important scientific questions. I’ve traveled the world and met academics. Many of them impress me as serious people trying to advance the field. But that observation is hard to square with some of the studies that make it into big journals—and then into the lay press.
Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Like many of you, I watch the news about the push for mandated staffing ratios. Nurse advocates confidently tell legislators that with 5.2 licensed nurses (if that number is even accurate), there are more than enough nurses to staff the US health system. The only reason they are […] The post Mandated Nurse Staffing Ratios appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
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“Digital technologies offer tremendous potential for shifting from traditional medical routines to remote medicine,” with the role of wearables playing a growing role in the new home care for healthy aging. But what are the challenges of deploying this promising tech with older people keen to be independent at home? We learn a lot about prospects and challenges in Digital health for aging populations, a Perspective report in Nature Medicine ‘s July 2023 issue.
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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. She is the owner of aneesahcoates.com and is passionate about helping nurses, current and aspiring, learn more about the profession. Coates works at a mental health crisis center as a senior professional evaluation nurse, preceptor to new nurses, Nursing Journal Club facilitator, and nursing department trainer for new staff.
Image: Corbis Photography | Veer Are you a new nurse? Do you find yourself bewildered by doctor-speak? Don’t panic! Auntie Agatha has your translation guide right here. Physician: “This will feel like a pinch.” Translation: “This will feel like I’m shooting you with a small-caliber handgun in slow motion.” Physician: “The patient presents with an interesting medical history…” Translation: ”Way too much to go into here; check out the previous doctor’s dictation.
In our last podcast , Vinay and I discussed the problem with medical journals. This was in response to a column I wrote about four fatally flawed studies that appeared in the most prominent journals. The commenter is an established academic who will remain nameless because his success depends on journals publishing his work. Was disappointed that in the most recent sensible med podcast — you guys didn't mention what I think is the biggest conflict of all and reason we don't get fair judgin
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This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Verifiable, an API-first innovator to the antiquated provider network management software category, has raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures to accelerate its next stage of growth and product innovation. Verifiable’s […] The article Verifiable Lands $27M Series B from Craft Ventures to Automate Healthcare Provider Credentialing appeared first on electronichealthreport
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