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First, They Saved Lives. Now, Nurses Want To Save America.

Jun 22, 2020

In late March, as the coronavirus silently spread across New York City, Phara Souffrant Forrest, a maternal child health nurse running for state assembly in Brooklyn, called up a prospective voter. As soon as she introduced herself, the woman on the other end of the line interrupted. “‘Oh, you’re a nurse?’” Forrest, 31, a democratic socialist, recalls her saying. The woman explained that her daughter was...

VA nurse’s idea: bar code scanning to support patient care

Jun 19, 2020

Sue Kinnick introduced the now-familiar bar code scanner in 1995 at the Topeka Veterans Affairs Medical Center . Since then, it has become a standard in the health care industry. Here is her story. At the crossroads of technology and patient care stand the nurses who have chosen nursing informatics as their specialty. Today, informatics is an integral part of health care delivery. Health information technology promotes safe,...

Archer City ISD, Vernon College partner to offer CNA program for high school students

Jun 19, 2020

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) - Archer City High School students now have the chance to start college early by graduating high school with two medical certificates: one as a certified nursing assistant, and the other as a clinical medical assistant. Justin Sanders, the continuing education coordinator at Vernon College for Allied Health, said he was noticing more and more high school students from Archer City traveling to...

RI Lawmakers Call For Increased Staffing, Pay In Nursing Homes

Jun 19, 2020

PROVIDENCE, RI — Several Rhode Island lawmakers and members of the health care industry are calling for changes in the state's nursing homes. The Nursing Home Staffing and Quality Care Act would create minimum standards for staffing and patient care hours. According to Adanjesus Marin, an activist with Raise The Bar, said Rhode Island ranks 42nd in the country in terms of the hours of care nursing homes residents receive and is...

How Well Do Americans Know the Facts About COVID-19?

Jun 18, 2020

THURSDAY, June 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Months into a global pandemic, some groups of Americans simply don't know enough about COVID-19 to protect themselves and others against the highly infectious respiratory virus, a new study reports. Most folks have a pretty good grasp about how COVID-19 spreads and the three main symptoms (fever, cough, difficulty breathing) that should prompt you to get tested for the virus, said...

Scituate nursing students go from college to the COVID-19 frontline

Jun 17, 2020

By Ruth Thompson rthompson@wickedlocal.com Lily Reid, left, and Katey Ferguson had just graduated from nursing school when they were hired to work with COVID-19 patients at the Boston Hope Medical Center, a 1,000-bed field hospital set up at the Expo Center in Boston The ink was barely dry on their college diplomas when Lily Reid and Kathryn “Katey” Ferguson were called to action in the face...

Nurse practitioners practice “more than medicine”

Jun 10, 2020

Nurse practitioners are often thought of as stopgaps to mitigate the shortage of primary care physicians, but in a new book, LaTonya Trotter , assistant professor of sociology, shows that they do much more than simply extend limited health care resources. In fact, she said, their role may reveal a fundamental misallocation of them. In More than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care...

This Nurse is Leading the Fight for Safer Hospitals

Jun 09, 2020

Bonnie Castillo, head of National Nurses United, raised the alarm over shortages of personal protective equipment long before others recognized the scale of the pandemic. She’s still fighting. “As a nurse, there are just times when it’s very intuitive. You just sense that something catastrophic is going to happen.” — Bonnie Castillo, the executive director of National Nurses United...

9 Facts to Motivate You into a Nursing Career

Jun 01, 2020

When we think about the medical field, it's easy to become lost in the apparent glitz and glamor of the world of celebrity doctors (we can blame Dr. Mike for that one), but what about the rest of the team? It's estimated that nurses outnumber physicians with a ratio of 10 to 3, and there are many different levels of nurses too. From newly qualified nurses right up to post-master's doctorate nurses, and the salary for these roles...

A Health Care Way Forward

May 29, 2020

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and its activation in 2014, there has been a huge amount of debate about what form our health protection system should take. (I am deliberately avoiding the word health insurance.) For many, the answer has been very plain and simple: Do away with insurance companies’ involvement in providing protection for people’s health care needs, and have the “government”...

Training for success: Top US colleges for health sciences

May 27, 2020

Health sciences is a rewarding field to study as it prompts students and researchers to strive for a safer and healthier world. For Northeastern University Professor Andrea Grimes Parker and her colleagues, their research in this discipline of applied science led to the development of fitness trackers that aid vulnerable and marginalised populations. “Existing fitness platforms focus so much on goal setting, data...

The Healthcare Innovation Bubble: Making The Most Of The COVID 19 Crisis

May 25, 2020

In many ways, it is the best of times for those among us who are interested in transforming American health care. With the emergence of COVID19, there is deep, broad recognition of our deeply fractured system of healthcare and public health and the long road ahead to improve on it. The question is no longer whether we should strengthen our healthcare infrastructure but how. For the ﬁrst time, we have broad recognition of both the...

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