By Ryan Craig Senior Contributor to Forbes At a time when relevant work experience has never been more important for career launch, it was depressing to read a Bloomberg Businessweek article on nurse practitioners that came out just in time for the holidays. Here’s the first paragraph: Across the U.S., nurse practitioner students face the […]
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The nursing shortage is one of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare today. A recent article proposes a solution that sounds logical at first: shift tasks away from nurses and onto non-skilled workers or technology-enabled support systems. Obviously, this was not a solution promoted by nurses. This approach risks oversimplifying a complex issue and may
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Brandy Winfree Root, RDN |Internal Medicine – MDedge The word “malnutrition” probably brings to mind images of very thin patients with catabolic illness. But it really just means “poor nutrition,” which can — and often does — apply to patients with overweight or obesity. That’s because malnutrition doesn’t occur simply because of a lack of
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Allison Nguyen, PharmD | Clinical Advisor Health care workers with disabilities face significant challenges, such as employment discrimination, lack of accessibility, and ableism. Nurses constitute the largest group of health care professionals in the US, and the demand for nurses to join the workforce has consistently increased.1,2 While the nursing profession promotes health and well-being,
Paige Twenter – Becker’s Clinical Leadership As nurse influencers collectively reach more than 1 billion followers, social media holds vast potential for nursing leaders to attract and retain nurses, according to research published in The Journal of Nursing Administration. To learn about social media’s recruitment capabilities, faculty and alumni from the University of Alabama at
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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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— 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,
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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Jodi Helmer is a freelance journalist who writes about health and wellness for Fortune, AARP, WebMD, Fitbit, and GE HealthCare. Nursing is a competitive field. In 2022, nursing schools rejected more than 78,000 qualified applications, and the students whose applications were accepted faced demanding schedules and rigorous academics and clinical rotations. Is this a recipe
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MDedge|Pediatrics William G. Wilkoff, MD How comfortable are you giving nutritional advice to your patients? When you offer it are you basing your advice on something you learned during medical school or your training? Was it included in a course devoted to nutrition? Did you learn it later as part of continuing medical education course
