PHOENIX – A few times a month, a 40-foot motor home – its exterior adorned with cartoon tigers dressed as medical workers – pulls up to Washington Park in Alamogordo, New Mexico. As children gather round, nurses distribute crayons and coloring books, pamphlets on health care and water bottles with […]
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Barriers To Make Use Of Of Data And Computer Technology By Australia’s Nurses
Because a lot widespread data and contextual data is assumed in odd human communication, researchers have but to resolve the problem of providing relevant info to common Technology-function natural language packages. Computer once meant a person who did computations, however now the time period almost universally refers to automated digital […]
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A new cause for Tammy Murphy’s charity: Nurses with burnout
Nurses in the trenches of this pandemic are suffering burnout and PTSD like never before: A survey of 10,000 frontline nurses around the country in June found that one-third have experienced severe mental health issues due to the ongoing crisis. Now they’re among the vulnerable groups being targeted by a […]
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Virtual event benefits babies, nurses
Ooh! La, Let’s Dine In: An Online Dinner Auction on Feb. 11 will be a free virtual event and feature an online auction of themed dinner packages for six. The event and auction, to benefit the Jackson L. Graves Foundation, will begin at 7 p.m., and the auction will conclude […]
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Nurses call on Biden administration to tackle environmental racism during COVID-19 pandemic
While the nation has been fixated on responding to one pandemic, a previously silent epidemic is getting louder: racism. “The COVID-19 pandemic is unmasking long-standing inequities within our country. The same inequities that make it so certain communities bear a greater burden of oil and gas pollution may also put […]
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A nurse’s plea: An intensive care unit nurse details COVID-19’s realities [column] | Columnists
What is it going to take? When will people get the message? When will people understand and listen? I’ve stopped posting on social media about COVID-19 because it feels like so many people aren’t listening, and it is like banging your head on a wall. But I see so many […]
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On the front lines of COVID, nurses confront life and death
Registered Nurse Daniel Corral works with a COVID-19 patient at the El Paso Long Term Acute Care Hospital, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. The relentless war against a deadly, invisible enemy was out of sight to all but those working its front lines. Mark Lambie AP EL […]
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Nurses Are on the Virus Front Lines. But Many Schools Don’t Have One.
As the lone nurse for her school district in central Washington state, Janna Benzel will monitor 1,800 students for coronavirus symptoms when classrooms open this month, on top of her normal responsibilities like managing allergies, distributing medications and writing hundreds of immunization plans. “I’ll have to go to these schools […]