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Emerging Trends: The HOME in Home Care
When recovering from a hospitalization or managing a chronic condition, there’s no place quite like home. As hospitals continue to use innovative payment models, Home Care will be increasingly popular and important in providing quality healthcare. Home Care is all about supporting patients and their families. This takes careful orchestration from the healthcare team. Teams […]
A Guiding Light in the Middle of the Night: the Life of a Medical Student
“Beep, beep, beep” – the one sound you dread to hear at 3 AM. As you get up from what you thought might be a few “clutch hours” of precious sleep, you see the numbers “6666” on your beeper – and your heart sinks… It’s the ER with your 7 th admission of the night. […]
A new research breakthrough may lead to a cure for the common cold
The common cold, it’s just a fact of life, right? You’re going to get it. No one is immune – technically speaking. If you want to lower your chances of getting a cold, the thing to do is eat right, exercise, and practice good hygiene… and don’t go outside with wet hair. The traditional wisdom […]
Revolutionary New Concept based Learning in Nursing: An educators perspective
Nursing educators must always be aware of new, different, and better ways to teach their students. Concept Based Learning is a new nursing student educational teaching and learning technique allowing educators to focus on teaching concepts to nursing students rather than problem sets or raw information learning tactics like rote memorization. Nursing students must know […]
Teas Test Essentials: Tips and tricks
The Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS), is a standardized test for aspiring nurses who wish to enter nursing school. It is used to test the general academic skill level of those applying for nursing school to determine their placement requirements and educational needs. Taking the TEAS is a preliminary part of applying for nursing […]
How to Keep Your Smart Device Sanitary
Please raise your hand if you’ve ever dropped your phone on the ground. You hold your breath as you reach down and pray that your screen hasn’t cracked. Flipping it over you find a perfectly smooth screen and you put it back in your pocket and continue with your day. Well, a cracked screen is […]
Smart Device Academic Policy
If your school or program is considering instituting a mobile program into their curriculum, then you might need to develop an academic policy to keep everything in check. Below we have a general outline of an academic policy that can help you develop your own. Academic Policy I. Classroom Usage No electronics are allowed during […]