In a few days, the winners of HCPro's 2010 Nursing Image Awards will be announced. Out of hundreds of nominees, two nurses will be selected as the embodiment of leadership and clinical excellence. I ...
Despite the compounding challenges of leading a team with upward of 93,000 nurses amid national staffing strains, an incessant pandemic and high burnout rates for the profession, Sammie Mosier, BSN, ...
No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...
How often – and how well – do health care programs teach lessons about the impact that climate exerts on health? And as more of us are exposed to and sickened by toxins, polluted air, unsafe drinking ...
In December 2021, tornado sirens sounded throughout Arkansas and Kentucky, and a deadly EF3 twister ripped through the Monette Manor nursing home. Inside, 67 residents huddled together under the ...
The Tragedy: On Sept. 11, 2007, a 71-year-old woman with metastasizing cancer was transferred from a hospital to Pacific Care Manor, a nursing home in Capitola. Just prior to her admission, the ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In a classroom, an old man glides in pushing a walker, and none of the young faces turn. In the cafeteria, a white-haired woman eats across from a teenager, to no one’s surprise. And ...
When Shanina Knighton began pursuing her doctorate in nursing in 2013, she set out to seek evidence to support a theory. She’d noticed that, during the H1N1 pandemic, patient hand hygiene wasn’t ...
LOT AND THEY HAVE MADE PROGRESS. THEY ALSO MADE SOME OBSERVATIONS. >> I THINK THERE IS ALWAYS SOME CONCERNS ABOUT ANY OUTBREAKS THAT WE HAVE HAD. BARRY: HEALTH OFFICER ED SINGER GIVING AN UPDATE ON ...