Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Discrimination occurs in nearly every setting, including healthcare. While it’s important to understand this, that doesn’t mean it’s okay to just let things go. Everyone deserves the right to quality healthcare services, delivered with dignity, compassion, and respect. To reduce discrimination in healthcare, it’s very important for professionals at every level to keep their eyes
[ Read More ]When many people think of healthcare, hospitals and nurses and doctors’ visits might be the only things that come to mind. However, healthcare is a vast field that includes many, many branches of study, influence, and practice. Public health and health policy are areas that are concerned with the broad family of healthcare entities, how
[ Read More ]Even without Covid-19, the healthcare industry has been on track for significant changes for years now. Phrases like “data-implementation” had little meaning several decades ago. Now they are integral in providing the highest possible level of patient care. Modern healthcare leadership is expected to provide patients with a secure, tech-driven experience that is user-friendly and
[ Read More ]If you are a nurse or medical professional interested in the area of disease management, there are a few important premises you need to understand about how disease management works that will help you transition well into this type of role. Disease management is a specialized area of healthcare where medicinal practice meets policy, prevention,
[ Read More ]In an ideal world, every patient would receive excellent care when they come through the doors of the hospital. They would trust their doctors and nurses, have all their practical needs met, and feel like people cared about them in addition to caring for them. While this doesn’t happen often enough, it happens more often
[ Read More ]It’s no secret that nursing is a difficult profession. Long hours, difficult work. Tedium some of the time, intense urgency other times. When tensions are high and there is a lot of important work that needs to be done it can be difficult for even a trained professional to know what to do. When the
[ Read More ]Today’s healthcare landscape is experiencing significant shifts and upheaval in some respects. Workforce depletion, the strain caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, increased needs, a changing (and aging) patient population, the increase in telehealth and technological advances, and more are creating huge demands for care that can’t always be met by Medical Doctors (MD’s) or physicians.
[ Read More ]According to the National Cancer Institute, a harrowing 39.5 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. This disheartening figure shows the importance and value of effective cancer care and treatment for patients diagnosed with the disease. Thankfully, leaps and bounds are being made in the field
[ Read More ]The medical science and healthcare landscape is changing rapidly. In some cases, fundamental shifts in status quo, available technology, and emerging needs are requiring wholesale adjustments to how the medical field operates. Biostatistics is an example of an emergent practice area that wouldn’t have existed in its current form even ten years ago but is
[ Read More ]Not so far away from the daily lives of most Americans is a growing crisis: the opioid epidemic. Government reports show that from April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses. These numbers don’t account for the people who have been lucky enough to survive, yet are still battling addictions
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