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mydocardial infarction

Recognizing and Managing Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

About every 40 seconds in the United States, someone experiences an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)—that adds up to about 600,000 AMIs every year. This potentially debilitating condition, which results from myocardial cell death caused by prolonged ischemia, is associated with…
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What’s new about measles?

Measles has been in the news frequently this year given recent outbreaks of this vaccine-preventable disease. Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, an estimated 3 to 4 million people in the United States were infected each year, with…

Choosing the right NP education

Takeaways: Choosing the right NP specialty can be difficult decision for the RN ready to move forward with education and career goals. Knowing educational options for selecting the right degree and the right type of program when choosing to become…

Pharmacologic management of type 2 diabetes in older adults

Advances in technology and therapeutics have led to more people with diabetes living into older age and others developing it later in life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 10.5% of the U.S. population has been…
COVID-19 care innovations worth keeping

Bright spots for the new year

COVID-19 care innovations worth keeping. We’ve lived through three waves of COVID-19 and learned from each one. New ways to care grew out of necessity, many of which I hope become permanent. Just look at the number of bright spots…
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Why hospitals dislike their best customer: CMS

And why it’s time that they embraced the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A FEW YEARS AGO, I was doing some work in Australia and took a few days off to visit the capital city, Canberra. I discovered that…

Academy designates five nurse leaders as Living Legends

The American Academy of Nursing will officially designate five exceptional leaders as Living Legends at the Academy’s Transforming Health, Driving Policy conference in Washington, DC, on October 24. As change agents and champions, these individuals have demonstrated a lifelong commitment…
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Medications for heart failure management: What nurses need to know

HEART FAILURE currently affects six million Americans, with an estimated 870,000 new cases annually. Learn about the newest medications to treat heart failure, including adverse effects, indications, and nursing implications. Stages and classes of heart failure established by the American…
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Improve the patient experience: STAT

As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the damage it has left in its path will take years to clean up. Just like with any other catastrophic disaster, the aftermath of the pandemic’s long-term health effects, both physical and psychological,…

Beer potomania and hyponatremia

Beer potomania is an unusual syndrome of severe hyponatremia associated with excessive beer ingestion in the presence of alcohol use disorder and malnutrition.
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Preventing harm

Reporting, recognition, and just culture can make a difference Editor’s note: This article is the second in a two-part series on patient safety. Access part 1 at americannursetoday. com/?p=55180. No one wants to make a mistake, especially in the high-stakes…
Roe vs. Wade

ANA Statement on overturn of Roe vs. Wade

On Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a 6-3 decision to reverse the 1973 Roe vs. Wade case, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion. Since 1973, Roe vs. Wade had permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of…

Re-imagining nursing’s social contract with the public

The public, and by extension healthcare leaders and organizations, assumes that nurses will continue to serve—regardless of the circumstances—believing that their commitment to patients will take precedence over their own welfare and that they will continue to fill the gaps…