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The State of the Nursing Workforce in 2024

Daily Nurse

Our nation’s health workers face a mental health crisis, as spotlighted in a CDC Vital Signs report in October 2023. The survey found that 46% of nurses had experienced clinical depression in the last 12 months, with only 29% actually booking a visit with a mental health professional.

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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

She became invaluable as a resource for new women booked into the jail with similar pasts. “I just want to thank you,” he told me one day when I was checking his vital signs. Her skin began to glow, the dark, sunken circles under her eyes vanished, and she transformed into a rational, likable person.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Janet is the author of the 4th edition of the book Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, along with co-authors Molly Collins and BR Daubman. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. . Janet: Beautiful.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills. And just stop me if I’m going too deep, huh? And then now that’s passed down to caregivers in a lot of settings, right?

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20 Questions You’ll Want To Know About the NCLEX

Nurse.com

Test takers] have to look at the patient as a whole — not just one vital sign, not just one lab report,” she said. testing centers consider accepted IDs to be passport books or cards, a driver’s license, a state or provincial/territorial ID, permanent residence card, or a military ID. Think of everything together.”

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.

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