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Rage Has Long Shadowed American Healthcare. It’s Rarely Produced Big Change.

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— In some cases, public anger has yielded more headaches for patients by Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News Among the biggest-grossing films in America in February 2002 were a war drama about American troops in Somalia (“Black Hawk Down”), an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie (“Collateral Damage”), and a future Oscar winner about a brilliant […]

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Remembering Marie Manthey, a Creator of the Primary Nursing Model of Care

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— Manthey also helped others cope with substance use disorder during her own recovery by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today Marie Ellen Manthey, MSN, one of the creators of primary nursing, a system of nursing care delivery, died on Dec. 12 at her home in Minneapolis. While serving as associate director of nursing at

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Is the Internet Impairing Your Medical Memory?

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— Digital convenience can foster an illusion of competence and knowledge by Nidhi Bhaskar, MSc, and Edward Feller, MD Bhaskar is a third-year medical student. Feller is a clinical professor of medical science. You don’t need to know the role of the artery of Adamkiewicz or mechanisms of liver failure. You can Google it. And,

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Why Do People Struggle to Prioritize Their Long-Term Health?

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Manuela Callari – MDedge Internal Medicine Understanding how people make health-related decisions requires a deeper exploration of their motivations, beliefs, and circumstances, Christopher Dye, DPhil, professor of epidemiology at the University of Oxford in England, and former director of strategy at the World Health Organization, said in an interview. “In public health, we tend to

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Sentara unveils nurse residency program: 4 notes

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Erica Carbajal – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Health has launched a six-month residency program that offers new nurses specialized training and mentoring in their intended area of practice. Four details: The program recently welcomed its first cohort and aims to train around 750 nurses per year. New nurses are automatically enrolled in the

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Alaska hospital launches virtual nursing, home health programs

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Mariah Taylor (Email) – Becker’s Clinical Leadership Anchorage-based Providence Alaska Medical Center has launched a virtual nursing program and home-based care services. Alaska is projected to have the highest number of nurse vacancies by 2030, with 23% of positions going unfilled, according to an Oct. 24 news release from Renton, Wash.-based Providence, the hospital’s parent

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Why rates of postpartum depression have doubled in the last decade

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One study found diagnosis jumped from 9% in 2010 to 19% in 2021. By Dr. Esther Zusstone Postpartum depression can occur up to one year after having a baby and about 1 in 8 women experience it. When a young woman with a history of severe depression during pregnancy arrived at the reproductive psychiatry clinic

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Highest-paid specialties for nurse practitioners, physician assistants

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Kelly Gooch – Becker’s Hospital Review A 2024 survey conducted by consulting firm Sullivan Cotter highlights the variation in compensation for physician assistants and nurse practitioners. The consulting firm’s “2024 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey Report” is based on data from nearly 850 health systems, hospitals and physician group practices representing more than

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Can We Fight Social Media’s Promotion of Junk Food?

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MDedge | Family Medicine Yoni Freedhoff, MD Three basic truths about ultra processed foods: Junk food, available pretty much everywhere, tastes great. Advertising works. And most of us don’t crave green leafy salads when we’re hungry. Of those three truths, the one that tends to get more public health attention is advertising. More specifically, advertising

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Nurses in the Media: Missing Voices in Healthcare Advocacy

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By Alice Benjamin, MSN, ACNS-BC, FNP-C – Nurse.com During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I truly recognized the depth of a critical issue: Nurses were not visible in media reporting on the outbreak, at least not in the way I had hoped. Instead of being highlighted as the experts that nurses are — leading

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