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10 Lessons from Clara Barton’s Life for Living and Making an Impact

AJN Off the Charts

I may be compelled to face danger, but never to fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.” Listening to naysayers is sometimes helpful in providing evidence for continued improvement, but know the difference between helpful information and petty jealousies. “I Always be innovating.

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The Ultimate Spring Bucket List To Help Nurses Recharge

Diversity Nursing

Engage with staff or informational signage to learn more about the different plant species, their origins, and the significance of their conservation. Bird Watching : Dive into the fascinating world of bird watching by grabbing a pair of binoculars and a bird identification book.

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When the Nurse’s Intuition Tingles

Minority Nurse

The air traffic she referred to was the constant barrage of information and data coming at you from all sides. If you’re familiar with this comic book phenomenon, what would have happened to Spider-Man so many times if he’d dismissed his Spidey-sense as just so much mental noise? But I digress.)

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Why Armchair Travel Is Good for You

Minority Nurse

From the New England shipping ports like Portsmouth where you can take a harbor cruise to learn about the area’s maritime history to days spent exploring the Newport mansions and envisioning the lives of America’s barons, the possibilities for learning rich history focused on what interests you feeds the escapist need.

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School-Nursing Home Partnerships (Service-Learning, Dementia)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

After students return to school, they reflect on how their nursing home visit affected residents and themselves, what they learned, and ways to share that information with others. My book, Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes , includes a chapter on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. In the case of radiology, they feed these bazillion radiographs to an artificial intelligence, so they also feed it what happened, what the outcome was, what happened in reality.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

You’ve written in a lot of places, including your own books. And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. Eric: The Hidden Harms of CPR. Sunita: There we go.