“Violence is just part of the job. Every nurse and health care worker experiences it at some point.” Sentiments like this echo across American hospitals and health care facilities, capturing a disturbing and growing reality.
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was 7 years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn't do anything.
When actor Gene Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, were found dead and decomposed in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on February 26, much of the media fixated on a phrase in the police report describing "mummification" of their hands and feet.
Full-time nurse, Nurse John found an unexpected escape through skits and comedy during the pandemic. What started as a way to cope with the stress of working in healthcare quickly turned into a thriving TikTok career.
During their 12-hour shifts, registered nurses (RNs) in Arizona and Arkansas perform many of the same tasks as RNs in Wisconsin and Wyoming: Assessing patients, monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and charting records to provide the best patient care.
A medical test used to detect cancer may actually be contributing to the disease, research suggests. Yet, there is little to no regulation of the scanners and radiation levels emitted can vary widely machine to machine.
A new study found that the areas of the brain that process and control emotions increase in size for women suffering from postpartum depression.
Recently, a close friend of mine reached out, expressing his frustration over our mutual friend, who, for some time now, has ignored his calls and messages.
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