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“I’m Going to Match!” A Tale of Nurses, Mentoring, and a Lifetime Bond

Minority Nurse

Roxana Chicas, PhD, RN , a research professor in Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing , rued her nontraditional academic path until a mentor reassured her: “The teacher always arrives when the student is ready.”. That advice about timing resonated last month as she prepared to donate a kidney to her mentor, professor and faculty colleague.

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Consumers’ Dilemma: Health and Wealth, Smartwatches and Transparency

Health Populi

Even as spending on healthcare per person in the United States is twice as much as other wealthy countries in the world, Americans’ health status ranks rock bottom versus those other rich nations. The U.S. health system continues to be marred by health inequalities and access challenges for man health citizens. Furthermore, American workers’ rank top in the world for feeling burnout from and overworked on the job.

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Effective communication can elevate your CX program

Walker Info - Patient Experience

It’s not just talk. Good communication is essential to executing a successful customer experience (CX) program. In fact, a comprehensive communications plan, developed well before your first survey is ever deployed, can propel your CX program from “just OK” to a level that enables you to motivate change, accelerate action, and achieve desired results.

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Promoting DEI in Healthcare

Relias

Tackling the broad topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in healthcare can seem daunting from an organizational level — and nearly impossible from an individual staff member’s perspective. There is plentiful evidence of the long history of systemic racism , gender disparities , and inequitable treatment in healthcare. It can be discouraging to consider what a single person can do to make up for decades of disadvantages.

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Disability’s Biggest Side-Effect: Ableism

Setting Sights

When people ask me, “What’s the biggest challenge you face as a deafblind medical student training to be a Doctor?” my answer is always, always the same: “It’s not my disabilities that is the biggest challenge, it’s the misconceptions, stereotypes, and ignorance of other people that is the most difficult”. Again, this was something that I touched upon in my latest television interview, on Channel 4’s ‘Steph’s Packed Lunch’, and how I am continuing in trying to try break down those old misassumpt

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More Americans Trust Small Biz and the Military than the Medical System, Gallup Finds

Health Populi

The most trusted institutions in the U.S. are small business and the military, the only two sectors in which a majority of Americans have confidence. Americans’ trust in institutions hit new historic lows in 2022, Gallup found in its latest poll of U.S. sentiment across all major sectors. Today, more Americans have faith in the police than in the medical system, according to a Gallup poll finding that Confidence in U.S.