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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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Elder Medication Management Training for Healthcare Personnel

American Medical Compliance

Providers also develop effective communication techniques to ensure patients understand their medications. Introduction to Elder Medication Management The population of the elderly (people more than 65 years old) is around 50 million as per the United States Census Bureau in 2019, and the number is further rising globally.

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Transition to Practice: Are Students Ready to Join a Disengaged Workforce?

American Nurse

The World Health Organization (2019) has classified burnout as an “occupational phenomenon” that must be addressed to maintain mental well-being in the workplace. Melnyk and colleagues (2021) recently conducted a national study that analyzed mental health, physical health, and depression in nurses across the nation.

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The Many Ways Nurses Can Become Champions of Sustainability

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Public Health Service, his passion for farming, and his concerns about environmental health. Nurses were among the many health care workers participating in the 2019 Global Climate Strike in Washington, DC. Resources to help you start acting on your concerns.

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Oncology Nurse Navigation and the DNP-Prepared Nurse

American Nurse

The benefits of navigation in avoiding treatment delays, improving patient adherence to treatment, enabling early diagnosis and early stage of the disease, and enhancing clinical outcomes after cancer diagnosis have been documented and proven beneficial in the literature (Rodrigues et al.,

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Maximizing Healthcare Reimbursement Through Higher Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

The relationship between patient satisfaction scores, reimbursement, and health outcomes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) scoring helps hospitals and governing bodies evaluate patient satisfaction through quantitative measurements.

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Validation of Electronically Administered Three-Question Health Literacy Screener and STOFHLA in Identifying Limited Health Literacy

American Nurse

Introduction LOW HEALTH LITERACY, when not identified, is associated with poor health outcomes such as unsatisfactory medication compliance, poor disease management, and increased healthcare costs. Health literacy levels were calculated based on scoring described by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)(Rubin, 2019).