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TBI: Closing the care gap in rural areas
Patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience varying symptoms depending on injury severity. Navigating reentry…
Nurse burnout
The nursing profession requires comprehensive and multifaceted strategies to combat burnout. Leadership training and adequate…
Women and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
Why are new HIV cases still occurring when we have preventive treatment? One reason could…
From stigma to support
Nurses experience higher rates of mental health issues than other professions, with suicide, substance abuse,…
Top post-pandemic global health concerns
The WHO remains concerned about several global health issues, but its focus has shifted since…
Post-pandemic quality of life
Before the pandemic, nurses already struggled to meet the ever-changing demands of the profession; they…
Smart pump technology and dose error reduction
In the hospital setting, nurses administer I.V. medications using infusion pumps; unfortunately, administration errors when…
Navigating Long COVID
Long COVID, a stigmatized and somewhat controversial condition, has begun to gain the public’s attention…
Can this marriage be saved? Nurses and health systems in crisis
COVID-19 exacerbated long-standing gaps and inequities in the healthcare system, which have had a profound…
COVID-19 is here to stay
Lost in the crush of headlines focused on many other important news topics is the…
Self-compassion in practice
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing plans to revise nurse training to include self-care…
Mitigating patient identification threats
A cardiology team scheduled a complex cardiothoracic surgery for identical young adult twins with the…
Palliative care vs hospice
An 84-year-old man with multiple comorbidities (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and…
End-tidal CO2 monitoring
ETCO2 monitoring, a tool once used almost exclusively in patients receiving anesthesia, has proven useful…
Decompression sickness
Kachina Montgomery, a 27-year-old woman, is spending her honeymoon in Florida learning to scuba dive.…
Wellness challenges
The 2022 National Nursing Workforce Survey found that 50.8% of respondents felt emotionally drained, 45.1%…
Lyme carditis: A clinical case report
A 19-year-old college student arrives at the campus student health clinic after feeling faint while…
From the Midwest to the Middle East
In the light from the hospital courtyard where refugees were cooking and doing laundry, I…