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
MDedge |Internal Medicine Jodi Helmer Only 12% of the nurses providing patient care at hospitals and health clinics today are men. Although the percentage of nurses has increased — men made up just 2.7% of nurses in 1970 — nursing is still considered a “pink collar” profession, a female-dominated field. “We’ve made strides over the
Joseph Lanctot, FNP- MedPage Today Recently, Bloomberg published an article titled “The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners” by Caleb Melby, Polly Mosendz, and Noah Buhayar, which brings to the public’s attention the dismal state of education for APRNs. I would like to share my own story and that of several other APRNs who attended my
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Florida State University recently launched the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium By Hunter Boyce – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Artificial intelligence isn’t just creeping into the health care workspace; it’s also entering the classroom. Florida State University has launched the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium, and it’s bringing a first-of-its kind nursing degree along
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