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“Don’t talk your business”: Big and small actions to promote Black Women’s engagement with healthcare.

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog has been written by Dr Clare McFeely RM, BSc, MSc, PhD, PgCAP (@ClareUoG) & Tobi Abedayo RN, BN(Hons) from Nursing & Healthcare School ( @UofGNurse), School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Each issue presents, and is perpetuated, in everyday healthcare encounters.

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Dr. Michaela Lewis: A Career in Pediatric Nursing

Minority Nurse

I completed my undergraduate nursing studies at Gardner-Webb University in 2008 and earned my Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2015. Every challenge, however, presents an opportunity for growth. Please tell Minority Nurse a bit about yourself.

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Clinical Education – whose job is it anyway?

The Nurse Break

However, CNEs have multiple staff, and sometimes multiple departments, which they oversee, and time spent on facilitation and administration of education mean they are not always able to be present on the floor when you need them to be. There has been a shift towards quality and safety within healthcare in recent years. NMBA (2016).

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

Other tigger warning tools often adopted by healthcare services include the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) or quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) scores, and the national early warning score (NEWS) or modified early warning score (MEWS; the George Institute for Global Health, 2021). Robson & Daniels, 2008).

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Telehealth’s Post-Pandemic Growth Trajectory

Healthcare Law Insights blog

Amid this surge, Congress enacted the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act in 2008 as part of an attempt to rein in the burgeoning online marketplace for prescription drugs—particularly those involving controlled substances—which had largely evaded prior enforcement actions. The Fate of the Waiver and Its Impact on Telehealth.

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Analysis of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials with Psychedelic Drugs

Healthcare Law Insights blog

CGMP recommendations for the manufacture of investigational drug products intended for phase I trials are discussed in the July 2008 guidance “CGMP for Phase 1 Investigational Drugs”. Clinical FDA believes that the characteristics of psychedelic drugs present challenges in designing adequate and well-controlled (AWC) clinical studies.

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How Hospice Supports Families

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Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals. On the other hand, the trend of more Americans dying at home also presents challenges for families that we may have not seen for a century. 2008 Nov;98(11):2092-8. More and more people are choosing to die at home.

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