News Published: April 26, 2023 | Original story form the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Read time: 3 minutes Helping your mother make pancakes when you were three…riding your bike without training wheels…your first romantic kiss: How do we retain vivid memories of long-ago events? As described in a paper published online today in Neuron, researchers […]
Kelly Gooch and Alexis Kayser – Updated Monday, April 24th, 2023 Shortages in healthcare have long existed. And while some signs may point to easing labor pressures for hospitals, many professionals in the field are living a different story. A March report from Altarum indicated that healthcare employment had rebounded to pre-pandemic levels. The healthcare industry currently has 1.3 percent more jobs
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9 MIN READ By Ken Coleman Being a good leader is way easier said than done. Sometimes it seems like everyone and their next-door neighbor wants to be a leader, but not everyone has leadership qualities. Fortunately, leading is a skill that can be learned. And the most common way to gain experience is by making
Mackenzie Bean Nursing associations are voicing their support for House legislation reintroduced this week that would remove practice barriers for advanced practice registered nurses. The Improving Care and Access to Nurses Act, or ICAN Act, was reintroduced April 20 after failing to pass in the last congressional session in late 2022. The legislation would permit nurse practitioners, physician
Wanting a drug isn’t the same as needing it BY OLIVER BATEMAN It’s 2am here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I’ve just finished writing 7,500 words of corporate marketing copy. I then turn my attention to this piece. But my attention is glitching. So, I do something I haven’t done since I took the Pennsylvania bar examination in
Ashleigh Hollowell More nurses are needed at the bedside than ever before, yet the profession continues to suffer from shortages and turnover rates as high as 37 percent in some regions. And although pursuing advanced nursing degrees may sometimes lead practice away from bedside roles and into others, Master of Science in nursing degrees are still worthy
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Bari Faye Dean If you are looking for a silver lining from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s this sad short-lived truth, Megan Ranney, MD, deputy dean at Providence, R.I.-based Brown University School of Public Health, told Becker’s: “During the pandemic there were no school or workplace shootings.” With businesses and schools shuttered — everyone working and learning remotely
Mackenzie Bean (Twitter) – Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 The rise of platforms such as TikTok and Instagram has created a new enemy for hospital emergency departments: viral social media challenges. The challenges encourage social media users — usually children or teens — to attempt risky or dangerous behaviors that can require emergency care. One of the first
NARRATIVE| VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1, P25-27, MARCH 2023 Download Full Issue Open AccessPublished:February 15, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcpdig.2023.01.004 Abstract We, a nurse and a laboratory director, share our experience supporting a research study that employed a digital health application and a rapid test for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and the implications of this approach for health care delivery. Recently,
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ByAndrew Rhoades Fact checked byShenaz Bagha Source/Disclosures Key takeaways: Walking the recommended daily step count even a couple days per week was associated with a significantly lower risk for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality over 10 years, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. “In modern society, lack of time is one of the major
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