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On National AIDS and Aging Day, A Veteran Nurse Looks Back: How Nurses Can Transform the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients Through Empathy

Daily Nurse

Any nurse entering the field, no matter how prepared or well trained, will do their best to learn about the realities of caring for others on the job. As a young nurse, I suddenly saw many patients developing complex and difficult-to-manage illnesses. Soon, we would give this disease a name: HIV/AIDs.

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New Year, New Home Care Wishes for 2022

Hearts for Home Care

Additionally, in the second year of COVID, many state and federal decision makers started to truly understand why home care makes sense: It keeps vulnerable individuals at home and out of potentially-infectious institutions, and it saves Medicaid programs money by doing so. Below, see what home care client Ari A.

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