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Seniors With Anxiety Frequently Don’t Get Help. Here’s Why.

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In a recent editorial in JAMA Psychiatry , Andreescu and Lavretsky noted that only about one-third of seniors with generalized anxiety disorder — intense, persistent worry about everyday matters — receive treatment. Jordan Karp, chair of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.

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Dr. Gonsalves, Distinguished Emeritus Honoree, is Respected Leader

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Lillian Gonsalves, MD, FAPM, FACP (P’81), recipient of the 2023 Alumni Association Distinguished Emeritus Award, was the first psychiatrist to serve on Cleveland Clinic’s Board of Governors and held a variety of leadership positions before retiring from Cleveland Clinic after 41 years. Dale Gulledge (P’92) , for opening doors for her. “He

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Magic Mushrooms Could Be Used to Relieve Burnout and Depression in Nurses

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Pappas is a retired nurse practitioner that was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013. Fred Barrett, a psychiatry professor and psychedelics researcher at Johns Hopkins University, says magic mushrooms may seem like the next big thing in mental health, but experts still aren’t exactly sure how it works.

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Doctors’ tributes to nurses in real life

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Tragedy Averted A misplaced decimal point made Stephen Herman, MD, a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, realize why good nurses are invaluable members of healthcare teams. Their brains keep working long after my brain wants to retire. Their feet rarely give out.

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Emotional health of Filipino American nurses and the COVID-19 pandemic

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About 17% state that they’re retired but active as volunteer community health workers. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. The data Respondents to the PNAA survey (response rate 9%) reported being married (75%), older than 40 years (89%), and working as clinicians in hospitals (47%). Int J Adv Couns. 2022;44:586-603.

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School Nurse Career Guide

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These include pediatric physical assessment, counseling and child psychiatry courses, and a class on state health mandates. In addition to health insurance, many schools offer retirement pensions, an increasingly rare benefit. You can also take advanced nursing courses to receive your school nurse certification.

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A warming planet and human health

American Nurse

Phyllis Eide was an associate professor (now retired) at Washington State University College of Nursing. Curr Psychiatry Rep. Elizabeth Schenk is associate vice president of environmental stewardship at Providence in Renton, Washington, and research assistant professor at Washington State University College of Nursing in Spokane.