Working as a travel nurse gives you a strange vantage point on American healthcare. You move through hospitals that appear different on the surface but often run based on the same pressures underneath.
Being a nurse is exactly as hard as it sounds. While there are moments of joy around saving lives, there certainly are raw moments when one has to face the ugliness of human nature.
I walked onto my small unit a few minutes before 7 a.m., nurses huddled around one elderly gentleman. A cacophony of alarm bells and call lights went unanswered as the unit’s three overnight staff members attempted to keep him in bed.
Something unusual happened at Archbishop Riordan High School last fall. In September, a student in the Bay Area school went to see a health care provider for a cough that wouldn’t go away.
Generation Z nurses require more frequent one-on-one interaction with managers and leaders than prior generations to maintain similar levels of engagement and retention, according to a March 25 report.
Advanced practice nurse and trainee coach, Anna Young, is advocating for primary care nurses’ voices to be heard at policy level and to ensure their ‘uniqueness and importance’ is recognised and valued. She highlights ‘how much poorer primary care and patient health would be without nursing in it’.
Across the nation, hospitals and universities are implementing financial incentive programs to recruit new and experienced nurses. Many of these incentives were developed or enhanced in response to staffing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Getting your hair washed at the salon should be a relaxing experience, but in rare cases a trip to the hairdresser can result in an emergency neurology consult. Dizziness, weakness, numbness, or a sudden headache following a hair wash could be a sign of beauty parlor stroke syndrome...
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