Nurse’s life revolved around giving, helping
(TribReview) When Terra Welsh learned that many diabetic children could not go to a summer camp because of their condition, she helped start a summer camp for them. “She would take two weeks of her own...
View ArticleNew Report: Nurses Practicing Independently in Retail Clinics Deliver...
(Market Watch) A new study co-led(1) by UnitedHealth Group’sUNH -0.05% Center for Nursing Advancement shows that nurse practitioners (NPs) practicing in retail clinics have the potential to deliver...
View ArticleMoving Time for Nurses Who Don’t Need Doctors
(Texas Tribune) As an advanced practice nurse specializing in family medicine, Holly Jeffreys operates the only medical clinics in two rural Texas Panhandle counties. The state requires that she have a...
View ArticleBill pushes nurse practitioners as solution to primary care shortage
(The Sentinel) Lorraine Bock was a nurse practitioner for 20 years, the bulk of which she served as the head of Bock Family Healthcare off West Trindle Road in Middlesex Township. Last Thursday,...
View ArticleNurses Save United Pilot Having Possible Heart Attack Mid-Flight
Talk about high drama. In an emergency situation called straight out of a movie, two nurses saved a United Airlines pilot having a possible heart attack mid-flight last month. Thirty minutes into a...
View ArticleFrom nurses and students, a new assault on inequality
(Hays Post) From the White House to the Vatican, everyone these days seems to be talking about income inequality. But our politics hasn’t kept up. Concrete proposals that could actually narrow the gap...
View ArticleBeating the burnout: Nurses struggle with physical, mental and emotional...
(Holland Sentinel) As educators, caretakers and lifelines, nurses take on several roles as they routinely care for patients day in and day out. And for some, the strains of the job can eventually lead...
View ArticleShould a nurse be your family doctor?
(MetroNews) A legislative audit recommends that advanced practice registered nurses in West Virginia be allowed to expand the scope of their care, but the recommendations do not go as far as the APRNs...
View ArticleLonger Nurse Tenure on Hospital Units Leads to Higher-Quality Care
(Columbia University Medical Center) When it comes to the cost and quality of hospital care, nurse tenure and teamwork matters. Patients get the best care when they are treated in units that are...
View ArticleQuincy, Mass. nurse who helped at finish line describes year of guilt,...
(The Enterprise) Bill Dockham was so close to the first explosion that the medical tent shook around him. With no windows to look through, Dockham had to watch on a small television as chaos suddenly...
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