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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In December 2019, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) reported that 290,000 NPs were licensed to practice in the United States. There are currently about 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care services.

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The Payoff of Wound Care Education: Get a Return on Your Investment

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Specialized wound care education reaps financial and human rewards that can give you a trackable return on investment. Financial rewards of wound care education flow outward from the human benefits. And your wound care education investment can help in all those areas. Results of Your Wound Care Education Investment.

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Connecting the dots with cannabis care

American Nurse

Sherri Mack Nurses are becoming an increasingly important part of the movement to educate patients, other healthcare providers, and the public about cannabis use. Cannabis nursing, a specialty nursing practice focused on providing education and guidance to healthcare consumers on the therapeutic use of cannabis, furthers this effort.

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Caring for adults with autism spectrum disorder

American Nurse

Educate nurses and all other healthcare providers to ensure they have a basic understanding of ASD, have familiarity with intervention options, and can provide family-centered and patient-centered care. The EBP project team is integrating this education into nursing orientation materials and organization-level annual employee education.

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Project ECHO and the geriatric healthcare workforce

American Nurse

Using an “all teach, all learn” approach, Project ECHO offers interactive education, peer-to-peer learning, case co-management, and collaborative problem-solving. How the project works UNTHSC became an ECHO Hub site in 2019 with the creation of a Geriatrics ECHO line targeting rural primary care practices caring for older adults.

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Rehabilitation Nursing and How it has Evolved Over the Years

American Nurse

Another significant area that rehab nurses focus on is education, educating not only the patient but the caregiver or family member as well. Education can be formal or informal, depending on the complexity of the patient’s needs. The more education a patient and his support system receive, the better the patient’s outcome.

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Study Assesses the Utility of Renal Genetic Testing in Black Patients

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The study included 48 Black patients and 232 white patients seen in Cleveland Clinic’s Renal Genetics Clinic between January 2019 and March 2022. We are conducting further studies to better understand and address these barriers, aiming to enhance the tailored education and counseling provided to Black patients with kidney disease.