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The Atlantic
Here’s an alarming statistic: Around one in four nurses has been physically attacked at work in the last year. Patients often kick, scratch, and grab them; in rare cases even kill them. In fact, there are nearly as many violent injuries in the healthcare industry as there are in all other industries combined. Healthcare workers make up 9 percent of the workforce.
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By Keith Carlson
 If you've never heard of an elevator pitch, it's prudent to understand what they are and how to use them in the interest of your nursing career. Every nurse should be able to distill his or her career and professional mission down to a 30-second blurb that gets the point across concisely and effectively. If you're chatting with a nursing bigwig in the elevator at a nursing conference, could you give her the crystallized version of your professional desires and motivations in 30 seconds or less?
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Health Leaders Media
Workplace safety and nurse surveillance capacity are significantly associated with healthcare organizations' performance on nurse, patient, patient experience, and pay-for-performance outcomes, according to analysis by Press Ganey.
The South Bend, IN-based company reached these conclusions after analyzing data from its patient and caregiver surveys, its National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, and the CMS Hospital Compare website.
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HealthDay News
A significant number of people with HIV have strains of the AIDS-causing virus that are resistant to both older and newer drugs, researchers report. The researchers looked at 712 HIV patients worldwide whose infection was not controlled by antiretroviral drugs. They found that 16 percent of patients whose infection was resistant to modern drugs had HIV mutations linked with resistance to older drugs called thymidine analogues. Among patients whose HIV had this mutation, 80 percent were also resistant to tenofovir, the main drug in most modern HIV treatment and prevention programs.
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Medscape
Hospital admission is lower when patients with chest pain in the emergency department are assessed with stress echocardiography than when they are assessed with coronary CT angiography, results from a new study suggest. Stress echo is often overlooked in patients with acute chest pain, but "it's a really reasonable option," said principle investigator Jeffrey Levsky, MD, PhD, from the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.
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Medical News Today
Wider use of daily low-dose aspirin by older Americans at risk of heart disease could reduce their risk of heart attack, prevent some cancers and death from cancer, and help them live longer. Over 20 years, such a move could save hundreds of thousands of lives and result in an estimated $692 billion in net health benefits. So concludes a study from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and published in the journal PLOS One.
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The Missoulian
Illness or injury can change life in an instant. A new diagnosis can be scary for anyone on the receiving end of “bad news.” Often, the future becomes uncertain, and what we once took for granted takes on new meaning and importance. Rather quickly, one might find oneself in a vortex of tests and studies and doctor appointments, with one intervention leading to the next intervention, leading to the next intervention, and so on.
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MedPage Today
The impact of smoking on myocardial infarction risk is much greater in younger adult smokers than older ones, according to findings from a new analysis from the United Kingdom. Younger smokers in the study had an eight-fold higher incidence of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) compared to younger nonsmokers.
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Nurse.com
Nurses may choose to temporarily leave the profession for any number of reasons. Perhaps it’s to raise a child or recover from a temporary disability. Perhaps it’s to try another profession or pursue another goal. Regardless of the reason for the hiatus, nurses who return to the profession are likely to find that re-entering the profession can be a challenge — unless they have prepared for the possibility. If you’re a nurse who must temporarily stop working, it’s important to remain as engaged as possible during your time away.
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Nurse.com
Nurse Green wasn’t surprised when a June 2015 Washington Post article featured a story about a patient undergoing a colonoscopy who inadvertently taped inappropriate comments made about him by his anesthesiologist and physician. The patient, who knew he would be sedated for the procedure, had hit record so he would remember his post-procedure instructions. He did not realize it would tape all the comments during his procedure.
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The New York Times
Aerobic fitness should be considered a vital sign, just as body temperature, blood pressure, pulse and breathing rates are now, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association. The statement points out that fitness can be a better indicator of someone's risk for heart disease and early death than such standard risk factors as smoking, obesity and high blood pressure. The authors recommend that each of us should have our aerobic fitness assessed as part of medical examinations and, if our fitness is on the low side, we should be advised and helped to start exercising.
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Olivet Nazarene University
Nurses have to wear a lot of hats. They explain drugs and treatments to patients, they administer drugs to some of those same patients, they reassure, they calculate, they document, they observe. But where do they do all those things the most? Which states have the most demand for nurses?
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Medscape
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent sustained arrhythmia, impacting 30 million people worldwide, with 3 million people in the United States alone. Notably, this number is expected to increase to more than 10 million Americans by 2050. AF results in an increased risk for morbidity, as well as mortality, with patients having a five-fold increase in risk of stroke and a 1.5- to 1.9-fold overall increase risk of mortality, after adjusting for other risk factors.
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