No one depends on comfortable footwear more than nurses. These healthcare heroes spend hours on their feet, walking hospital hallways, assisting patients, and tackling back-to-back shifts. It’s physically demanding work that makes supportive, durable shoes an absolute essential.
If you are exploring your next travel contract, you have probably seen the terms post-acute care and skilled nursing used interchangeably on job boards. While they both focus on helping patients recover outside of a traditional hospital environment, they aren’t the exact same.
I was recently speaking with an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse, and she described a moment that perfectly captures the weight of her profession. She was managing a post-surgical patient whose vitals were quietly deteriorating. Before the monitor alarms even registered the crisis, she had anticipated the drop, prepped the pressors, and calmly updated the attending physician.
While fans danced in the desert, Brielle Brumfield was making house calls — IV kit in hand — at Coachella. Brumfield says the role showed her a new side of nursing and inspired her to embrace unconventional opportunities.
Researchers are finally getting to the bottom of a troubling trend. Once considered a disease of older adults, colorectal cancer has now overtaken breast and brain cancers to become the leading cause of cancer deaths among Americans under 50.
From nurse representation to specific cases, Penn Presbyterian registered nurse Bobbie Poller shares his take on season two of the HBO Max medical drama. This article contains spoilers.
A California nurse who fell down a flight of stairs after she drank 15 shots of tequila on a Carnival cruise has been awarded $300,000 in damages by a jury.
Federal authorities have charged 12 more defendants in “Operation Nightingale,” a sweeping investigation into a massive Florida-based fraud ring that sold approximately 7,300 fraudulent nursing diplomas and transcripts to aspiring healthcare workers, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.
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