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Pregnant women and their health care providers had little information to guide them as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded last year, but evidence and recommendations have since emerged.
A bioengineering graduate student at Stanford University has created RNA tests with the potential to redefine prenatal care and save lives.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions passed three bills to improve maternal health and support front-line health care workers.
Non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) presents a serious and preventable threat to patient safety in U.S. hospitals, according to a study in the June issue of the American Journal of Nursing.
Pandemic restrictions on the ability of patients’ families to spend time at the bedside has caused suffering for all parties, including nurses.
Hospitals eager to ease overcrowding and insurers eager to lower costs are embracing the hospital-at-home concept, already employed by roughly two dozen health systems.
When Sherri Becker was a new nurse working the night shift in 1983, a young, Black man with sickle cell disease (SCD) was admitted in crisis.
Researchers with the Missouri Quality Initiative report staffing nursing homes with full-time advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) backed by an operations support team reduced unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents.
The rapid decision-making process, which Atlanta’s Emory Health System began using during the COVID-19 pandemic, is here to stay, according to Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, the system’s chief nurse executive.
Last week, the American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) to prioritize actions and programs that will support the nation’s health care workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.