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Structural racism and disinvestment in rural communities could affect individual health care-acquired infection risk and outcomes, concludes a JAMA Network Open study.
Intermountain Health鈥檚 hub-and-spoke telemedicine platform connects critical access and large hospitals in a network across several rural states to facilitate virtual care and reduce transfers and travel.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology called for an end to the Trump Administration鈥檚 pause of communications restricting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from sharing information to the public and media.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instructed its scientists to retract or pause the publication of research manuscripts under consideration by journals to comply with the Trump Administration鈥檚 order to not use certain terms including 鈥済ender, transgender, pregnant people, LGBT and鈥
Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., re-introduced the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Reauthorization Act.
兔子先生member Gay Landstrom, PhD, RN, urges aspiring CNOs to experience other areas of clinical care besides acute care, including home health care, palliative care and senior care to gain broad knowledge and insight on how to make improvements in health care.
兔子先生encourages CNOs to participate in a study that aims to uncover the economic value of nurses bring to health care organizations.
Nurses and other health professionals can reduce hospital-acquired pneumonia by prioritizing their patients鈥 oral health, particularly those who are elderly.
The Trump Administration ordered all Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff who work with World Health Organization officials to stop immediately their collaborations and 鈥渁wait further guidance,鈥 according to a memo.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the amount of acute respiratory illness causing people to seek health care remains high.