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Is It Language? Family Ties? Plumbing the Mystery of the Hispanic Paradox
In early December 2021, I was seeing a physical therapist for a shoulder injury. During one of my visits, the therapist was alternating between me and another patient on an adjacent bed, who had a knee replacement. While the therapist worked on the other patient’s...
Oncology Nurses Offer Care and Compassion
During Oncology Nursing Month, oncology nurses and the specialty they work in are honored and highlighted. Oncology nurses work with patients who have dealt with a cancer diagnosis--whether years ago or more recent. No matter when a patient hears they have cancer, the...
Neuroscience Nurses and a Complex Specialty
This week's recognition of National Neuroscience Nurses Week helps raise awareness of this nursing specialty and honors the work neuroscience nurses do. Nurses who find a good fit in this field are generally fascinated by brain science and all the different...
Using EdTech Learning Tools to Sharpen Nurses’ Clinical Reasoning and Critical Thinking Skills
To be a nurse, one must possess many different skills, with clinical judgment –the ability to think critically and make quick decisions that impact patient outcomes - being one of the most important. Another increasingly important skill is technology literacy, or the...
The Importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are hot topics in the healthcare world, but including a DEI module in our yearly education isn’t enough to address these issues. Policy is a valuable tool, but actual change needs to come from a more personal level, from each and...
8 Problems Driving the Nurse Staffing Crisis
Today’s healthcare landscape has been riddled with hardship and systemic shifts. Large-scale downward trends were highlighted by the COVID-19 crisis, but originated beforehand and will require massive effort to reverse. Unfortunately, the brunt of these inefficiencies...
Nurse Researcher: Pandemic Had Heavy Impact on Black Girls’ Health
The physical, psychological and sexual development of Black adolescent girls has been “heavily impacted” by the COVID-19 pandemic, says Natasha Crooks, PhD, RN, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing. Crooks has published...
Teaching Healthcare Staff to Lose Their Weight Bias
After showering, applying deodorant twice, and cranking up her car’s air conditioning against the summer heat (“I will not be the sweaty, smelly fat girl,” she thinks), Eva arrives at the doctor’s office ready to get to the bottom of what ails her: a newly swollen,...
National School Nurse Day Is May 11
In the middle of National Nurses Week, a day is designated to honor the school nurses who work in schools nationwide and address issues that range from splinters to seizures. This year's School Nurse Day on May 11 helps recognize and celebrate this career. School...
Nurse Historian/Fulbright Scholar Explores the History of Filipino-American Nurses
When he is not treating kids as a pediatric Transitional Care Unit (TCU) nurse at VCU Health in Richmond, VA, Ren Capucao, MSN traces the rich heritage of Filipino nurses in the US. As a nurse historian (Capucao's first article was published in 2019 in the Nursing...
