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Speech Pathologist Vs Speech Therapist: Are They the Same?

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Whether you’re considering speech-related careers or researching what kind of rehabilitation practitioner could help you or a loved one with a communication disorder, you’re not alone. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are licensed communication experts. Is a Speech Therapist the Same as a Speech Pathologist?

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16 Benefits of Online Learning for Flexible Study

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Enhance Your Communication Skills The advantages of online learning are that it creates opportunities to interact, participate and communicate with your peers and instructors in different ways. Zapier Editorial Team, “The Remote Work Report by Zapier,” Zapier, November 13, 2019, [link]. ManpowerGroup. Levitz, Ruffalo Noel.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Alcohol Consumption & the Cancer Connection

The Relentless School Nurse

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, MD A Surgeon General’s Advisory is a powerful and authoritative public health communication tool designed to address urgent health issues facing the American people. In 2019 alone, approximately 96,730 cancer cases were linked to alcohol use, with 42,400 cases in men and 54,330 in women.

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Gallup Poll: Nurses’ Ethics Still Top the List

Daily Nurse

Physicians still rate high at 59% despite a 9-point drop from 65% in 2019. Pharmacists are consistently good performers in the Gallup poll, although they, too, have seen a drop from 64 to 55% between 2019 and 2023. Dentists, currently the fourth most ethically viewed profession at 59%, also took a dive from a 2019 result of 61%.

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The Strategies One Nursing School Used to Combat Workplace Incivility

Health Leaders | Nursing

However, the faculty admitted their desire for a civil environment where they could experience joy in the workplace, so in May 2019, five nursing faculty launched an effort to address incivility and identify and implement effective strategies to create a civil environment so faculty could experience joy at work, according to the study.

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Georgia Hospital Improves Organ Donation Process

Daily Nurse

Improved organ donation practices and greater program visibility led to a sustained increase in referrals, donors, and transplanted organs at a Georgia hospital, thanks to a focus on enhanced staff education and family communication. A series of organ donation presentations in 2018 and 2019 provided staff education.

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Evidenced-based infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines: are just not evidenced-based

Evidence-Based Nursing

Tuberculosis guidelines The NICE guidelines for TB updated in 2019 2 omit a recommendation to use respiratory protection equipment (RPE) (ie, FFP3 masks) unless the TB strain is drug-resistant. (NB NB communicability is unrelated to drug resistance.) 3 The patient and HCW met once during an aerosol generating procedure (AGP).