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The power of compassion: A student volunteer’s journey with hospice

HopeHealth

Here’s what one college student learned from hospice volunteering. The post The power of compassion: A student volunteer’s journey with hospice appeared first on HopeHealth. “No matter how dire things seem, you can always make a difference in someone’s life.”

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Chair of the Massachusetts Medical School Collaborative: All Med School Students Should Learn Serious Illness Communication

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The collaborative launched in 2017 as a combined effort of faculty, staff and students at UMass Chan Medical School, Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. The collaborative recently developed five core competencies , or skills, they want students to acquire before graduation.

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Creating a Disaster Simulation for Nursing Students

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A nursing student treats a volunteer acting as a disaster victim during a high-fidelity simulation at the University of South Carolina Aiken Convocation Center. The only cost incurred during our disaster management simulation project for nursing students at our institution was the cost of make-up to create realistic wounds.

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Claim Your Future: High School Initiative Prepares Students for Healthcare Careers

Daily Nurse

In a unique effort to jump-start young people into healthcare professions, including nursing, one philanthropy will provide $250 million to create special high schools to prepare students for healthcare careers. Sisk hopes this program will excite students about nursing and eventually help stem the tide of nurses leaving the profession. “It

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Nurse’s Side Gig: Teaching Nursing Students Dosage Calculations

Daily Nurse

She teaches nursing students at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Health and Safety Education Training Center. How did you develop the idea for teaching nursing students about dosage calculation? I kept seeing nursing students fail out of nursing school because of dosage calculations! No nursing student should fail dosage calculation.

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How Nursing Students Can Deal with Test Anxiety

Daily Nurse

For nursing students, taking tests is a typical path to becoming an RN. For many students, though, studying and taking rigorous tests (like the NCLEX) can be an overly intense experience, causing nurses to feel test anxiety and fear over their grades. So what is this feeling nurses get when they’re overwhelmed before a test?

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Can Nursing Students Benefit from Using Artificial Intelligence?

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Over time, it became evident that nursing students might benefit from AI in their study methods and when acquiring nursing knowledge to support their academic success. This blog post will include an overview of AI-powered tools with example prompts to guide students’ academic efforts.

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