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Mental Health Nursing Fast-Growing Field With Diverse Possibilities

Nurse.com

You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. Inpatient hospital units.

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Understanding and honoring the needs of Native American elders

American Nurse

Takeaways: Four significant factors compromise care for Native American elders: healthcare disparities, historical trauma, healthcare shortages afflicting rural areas and reservations, and a lack of culturally appropriate care in long-term care facilities. January 14, 2019. The Indigenous Foundation.

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My patient is a victim of human trafficking

American Nurse

Remind the victim that you care about their well-being and that the hospital is a safe place. Open your eyes Because nurses work in so many settings (hospitals, outpatient clinics, provider offices, public health agencies, community centers, home and long-term care), we’re in an exceptional position to help victims of human trafficking.

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

Scrubs

A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. One of the homes below the minimum was Heritage Hills Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Smithfield, where Pernorio, president of the Rhode Island Alliance for Retired Americans, went last October after a stint in a hospital.

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived

American Nurse

A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. One of the homes below the minimum was Heritage Hills Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Smithfield, where Pernorio, president of the Rhode Island Alliance for Retired Americans, went last October after a stint in a hospital.

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