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Three students are sitting in a circle laughing togetherNursing & Healthcare NewsNurse Practitioners for Mental HealthProgram to add 300 NPs in California...PMHNPs by 2025. “Once these providers are fully deployed,” says CHCF President and CEO Sandra R. Hernández, “they will improve access to mental health care for hundreds of thousands of...
A patient sits on a bed while a nurse in scrubs is rubbing hand sanitizer on her hands by a curtainNursing & Healthcare NewsFDA Squelches Hand Sanitizer ClaimsA warning to Purell...implying that hand sanitizer doesn’t protect against illnesses like influenza and norovirus. If you were concerned, you can breathe easier: Although the FDA did pull certain hand sanitizer ingredients off...
Nursing Book ClubBlack Death at the Golden Gate by David K. Randall and The Mosquito: A Human History of the Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. WindegardTwo books about the politics of epidemics...a ship arrived in San Francisco with a lifeless passenger who had also shown the first signs of plague. The rest of this page-turning story is about the race to...
Researcher in a lab is using a syringe to fill a beaker on a counter. She is wearing a white lab coat and glovesNursing & Healthcare NewsCOVID-19 VaccinesWill a vaccine be the answer?...can afford. The cost will be steep. As Elizabeth Rosenthal warned in a recent Kaiser Health News article, pharmaceutical companies can — and very well may — charge hefty prices...
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Registered Nurse Tami Hitchcock stands smiling in colorful scrubs. She is standing in front of a yellow wall.My SpecialtyPediatric Acute Care, Tami Hitchcock, Loma Linda University Children’s HospitalTreating and nurturing sick and injured children...well as decorations and gingerbread houses the kids can make. Santa always comes to visit, and local police often arrive with gifts. There are always special holiday events, including some...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsVaccination ExemptionsANA rejects religious exemptions as California considers tighter rules...vaccination exemptions. For example, San Diego M.D. Tara Zandvliet has written 29 percent of all medical exemptions in the San Diego Unified School District — an average of three dozen...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsUpdates from the FDAVaccinations and hand washing to prevent illnesses...the other three serotypes, you’re at risk of a much more severe dengue infection, which can be lethal. Back in 2015, Sanofi Pasteur introduced a vaccine, Dengvaxia, specifically designed to...
Illustration of Agnes Jones portrait in the center, with images of different urban and rural scenery around herProfiles In NursingAgnes Jones (1832-1868), English Workhouse Infirmary ReformerIn the age of Dickens, her efforts led to the reform of English public healthcare...ministry, often administering bible readings along with bandages. In 1860, she entered the Kaiserwerth Deaconess Institute near Düsseldorf, Germany, where Florence Nightingale had trained some years earlier. Although her mother...
Nursing & Healthcare NewsThe Nurses of Ward 5BDocumentary about pioneering San Francisco AIDS unitThirty-six years ago, nurses in San Francisco established the country’s first specialized AIDS unit. A new documentary film, 5B, tells their story. The First Step When nurses at San Francisco...