How many Olympians hold down full-time jobs even as they train for their sport?
And how of those jobs are in nursing, in a two-year pandemic?
So if you see Nina Roth chasing a nearly 2-year-old around a park in Madison, stopping only once in a while to do a set of pull-ups on the monkey bars herself, don’t worry – she’s not lost her marbles.
She’s just …...
Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States , over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
This was due primarily to a shortage of nursing professors and a limited number of clinical placements where nursing students get practical job training. Additional constraints...
A critical care nurse confronts the Omicron surge filling her hospital
Credit: Samantha Mash
To health care workers in the COVID era, holidays mean death, and we knew Omicron was coming before it had a name. The wave caused by this variant has barely begun, rapidly gathering steam, and we are exhausted, attempting to pull from reserves badly drained by earlier surges.
Back in...
Meet two healthcare workers who have found power in partnership, galvanizing each other—and their thousands of Instagram followers—to take nursing in a new direction.
Investments in innovation and a willingness to forge new partnerships will help lift skilled nursing providers out of the COVID-era, predicts Donna Kelsey, a veteran nursing home leader who knows quite a bit about righting a ship.
A registered nurse and...
Before Mary Venus was offered a nursing job at a hospital in Billings, Mont., she'd never heard of Billings or visited the United States. A native of the Philippines, she researched her prospective move via the internet, set aside her angst about the cold Montana winters and took the job, sight unseen.
Venus has been in Billings since mid-November, working in a surgical recovery unit at Billings Clinic, Montana's largest hospital in...
(CNN) The new year is starting with a massive influx of Covid-19 that's different from any other during this pandemic, doctors say.
"We're seeing a surge in patients again, unprecedented in this pandemic," said Dr. James Phillips, chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Hospital.
More clarification 'coming very soon' to CDC's Covid-19 isolation guidelines
"What's...
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. The year turned out quite differently than expected, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But in recognition of the contributions made by the healthcare force, the WHO extended the celebratory year by designating 2021 the International Year of...
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Nearly two years into the pandemic many nurses are facing burnout amid staffing shortages and surges caused by new variants.
A second winter of COVID is descending upon the United States.
This time there is widespread access to vaccines, but there's also the new omicron variant, a much more infectious form of the coronavirus that's surging.
Health care workers in hospitals are seeing the...
The problems rooted in a nationwide nursing shortage, including its effect on patient care and safety, is the top concern of three nurse leaders.
Becker's asked three chief nursing officers what the industry's one biggest challenge would be heading into the new year. Below are their answers.
Editor's note: Responses have been lightly edited for brevity.
Sara Kollman, DNP. CNO at Kaiser Permanente in Aurora, Colo.: The...
From saving lives off the job, achieving career milestones and more, here are 22 nurses who made headlines this year:
1. Sandra Lindsay, RN, a critical care nurse and intensive care unit director at New York City-based Long Island Jewish Medical Center, had her scrubs placed in the Smithsonian Museum of American History after becoming the first American to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14, 2020.
2. On Feb. 28,...
(CNN) The Omicron Covid-19 variant is now the most dominant strain in the US, accounting for over 73% of new coronavirus cases less than three weeks after the first was reported, according to estimates posted Monday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It's been just 20 days since the US detected its first case of Omicron .
For the week ending December 18, Omicron accounted for 73.2% of cases, with Delta...
The “disinformation doctors” are expanding, even as Congress and state medical boards scrutinize the operation and the group’s founder, Simone Gold.
AMERICA’S FRONTLINE DOCTORS, an organization that has been widely criticized for spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccines and advocating for potentially dangerous replacements, is expanding. According to a newsletter the group sent to its...