The Future of Acute and Critical Care Nursing
The pandemic could be a tipping point that leads many nurses to change careers, leave their jobs, or retire early.
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COVID-19 has put the lives of athletes in peril for years to come, the extent of which we likely won’t know for quite some time.
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I worry that my hesitancy to remove my gloves and touch my patient’s hand limits my ability to connect with them as humans and not just vessels of disease.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing gender inequities in academic medicine.
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Contingency plans must be developed to address future health crises and mitigate the drawbacks of a highly specialized medical workforce.
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Policy changes could help address the suffering this workforce has experienced and facilitate their continued care for people with serious illness.
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We need help. If we don’t receive this supporting cast, there might not be anyone left to play the role of health care provider.
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The reshaping of the health care landscape due to the pandemic has reduced new cancer diagnoses by over 50% for patients with breast cancer.
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Read more: Pandemic Highlights Need for Quality and Equity in End-of-Life Care Pandemic Highlights Need for Quality and Equity in End-of-Life Care
Our health care workforce, as well as patients and their families, deserve better medicine in the sensitive and tenuous time at the end of life.
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Read more: Pandemic Threatens Future of Emergency Medical Services Pandemic Threatens Future of Emergency Medical Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed persistent, wide-ranging existential threats to effective 911 emergency response.
