How One Dad Manages His Son’s Care Amid a Pandemic and a Home Health Aide Shortage

Grant Williams has a birthday coming up this month. He splits his time between his mother and father’s home, and his dad Bob is mulling over ideas for Grant’s birthday celebration. Last year, Bob had tickets to take Grant to an interactive multi-media venue in Philadelphia, but the event was cancelled due to quarantine. Grant—who was born with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and has autism and cere..(Read More)

President Biden And Congress Urged to Prepare and Implement National Crisis Management Plan to Address Needs of Millions Suffering from Long COVID

The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) called on President Joe Biden and Congress to gear up for the next coronavirus crisis, by preparing and implementing a comprehensive national plan focused on the needs of millions of individuals suffering from the long-term symptoms of COVID-19. According to two recent publications from the Journal of the American Medical Asso..(Read More)

POCN Launches Ambassador Network and Mentoring Programs, Establishing NPs and PAs as Key Opinion Leaders and Mentors Among Peers

POCN, the largest NP and PA network in the U.S., today launches two programs to support NPs and PAs professional advancement — the Ambassador Network and Mentoring Program. The Ambassador Network provides advanced practice professionals (APPs) such as NPs and PAs with a platform to become recognized for their leadership and clinical subject matter expertise, while the mentoring program supports AA..(Read More)

Leading Nursing Organizations Partner to Launch COVID-19 Vaccine Information Campaign for Nurses

The American Nurses Association (ANA) along with 19 leading nursing and healthcare organizations are joining together to announce a new vaccine education campaign: COVID Vaccine Facts for Nurses. The initiative will bring critical, current, and culturally sensitive COVID-19 vaccine information to the nation’s nurses on the frontlines of the pandemic and those caring for patients in every community..(Read More)

Nursing Homes Release Reform Agenda To Address Systemic Issues Facing Long Term Care Sector, Learn From On-Going Crisis

The American Health Care Association representing more than 14,000 nursing homes and other long term care facilities across the country that provide care to approximately five million people each year and LeadingAge, the association of more than 5,000 mission-driven aging services providers including nursing homes, today released a reform agenda, the Care For Our Seniors Act, to address long-stand..(Read More)

Survey Compares COVID-19 Perceptions from March 2020 vs March 2021

One-year into the COVID-19 pandemic and even with the light of the vaccine on the horizon, a majority of Americans are still fearful, according to a new healthinsurance.com national survey of 1,000 U.S. adults 62% of those surveyed say they are still afraid of getting COVID-19. In fact, 25% say they would unfriend someone if they exposed them to COVID-19. 7 in 10 say they have or know someone who..(Read More)

Re-envisioning the Nursing PhD Degree

The PhD degree prepares nurse scientists to advance knowledge through research that improves health, translates into policy, and enhances education. However, as the role of the nurse has changed, and health care has grown more complex, there is a need to re-envision how PhD programs can attract, retain, and create the nurse-scientists of the future and improve patient care. To begin the dialog a..(Read More)