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School nurses have a big job—is 1 for every 750 kids really enough?

June 2, 2021 A, Big, Have, job—i, nurses, school

When many people think of a school nurse, they imagine a person who hands out Band-Aids for boo-boos. But school

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Pandemic impacting rural nurses’ mental health

April 12, 2021 health, impacting, Mental, nurses, pandemic, Rural

“Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past.” The words of Niccolò Machiavelli 500 years ago still ring

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Personal Health

Readers and Tweeters Defend Front-Line Nurses and Blind Us With Science

January 21, 2021 and, blind, Defend, Front-Line, nurses, readers, Science, Tweeters, US, with

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and

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‘Good progress’, but don’t expect first Covid-19 vaccinations until early 2021: WHO expert Mike Ryan

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Researchers are making “good progress” in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use

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I was a nurse on the front lines of Ebola, and I saw that nurses need support for the trauma and pain they experience

April 29, 2020 A, and, Ebola, experience, for, front, I, lines, Need, Nurse, nurses, of, on, pain, Saw, Support, that, the, They, trauma, Was

Since the beginning of the profession, nurses have played pivotal roles during outbreaks of disease, delivering care throughout even the

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‘Baxter’ the robot can assist the elderly amid a shortage of nurses

August 23, 2019 'Baxter', A, amid, assist, Can, Elderly, nurses, of, robot', shortage, the

Scientists create a robot with two arms called Baxter who can help the elderly get dressed amid a shortage of

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Nurses have the most important job in the world and we need your support

May 12, 2019 and, Have, important, in, Job, Most, Need, nurses, Support, the, we, world, your

The day before my dad died, I stood outside his bedroom listening to him shriek with laughter. His nurse, Cheryl

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Maria Menounos Speaks Out After Her Brain Tumor Scare: 'I'm Doing Great'

October 6, 2018 Brain Tumor, Johnson and Johnsons, Maria Menounos, nurses

More than a year after Maria Menounos had surgery to remove a benign brain tumor while her mother was battling stage 4 brain

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Monkeypox nurse’s husband waits 12 hours for an ambulance

September 28, 2018 12, ambulance, Caught, hours, husband, Monkeypox, nurses, virus, waits, wife

Monkeypox nurse’s husband who ‘caught virus from his wife’ waits 12 hours for an ambulance and is told he will

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Health Problems

Care provided by specialist cancer nurses helps improve life expectancy of patients with lung cancer

July 5, 2018 By, cancer, care, expectancy, helps, improve, life, lung, nurses, of, patients, provided, specialist, with

A new study looking at the picture of lung cancer care in England finds that patients with lung cancer experience

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