What Nurses Don ’ t Know on CLABSI
Central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI) have been the target of tireless efforts at Johns Hopkins Hospital and other health care facilities across the United States. The reasons are simple: CLABSI can kill, and treating them proves far more costly than preventing them in the first place. But evidence-based education of nurses about proper
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All Ears: Seeds of Breakthrough on Chemo Side Effect
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Carbon Dioxide-Based Cancer Cryoablation Probe for Low-Resource Regions
Undergraduate
researchers at John Hopkins University have developed a cryoablation probe for
breast cancer, which uses carbon dioxide instead of argon, making it more
affordable and accessible for use in low resource regions.
Treatments for women with breast cancer are scarce in poorer places. In fact, survival rates can be as low as 12% for breast cancer patients in places such as The Gambia, compared with 90% in the United States. Treatments that are commonly used in wealthier countries, such as surgery or chemotherapy, are either too expensive or impractical in poorer and more remote regions, where women frequ...
Source: Medgadget - July 15, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Oncology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Summer Research 2019
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What Nurses Need to Know: How to Take a Sex Positive Health History with LGBTQ+ Patients
By: Christopher Payton Stuckey All too often, a health care provider’s heterosexual bias (explicitly stated or communicated through tone and nonverbal body language) causes LGBTQ+ persons to feel shame during a sexual health history assessment. Culture—including LGBTQ+ culture—is a social determinant of health. A provider who is culturally insensitive—who is unaware or uncaring in their
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 27, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: Eponymictionary Infectious Disease Filaria osleri Filaroides osleri Osler node Oslerus Oslerus osleri Sir William Osler Strongylus canis bronchialis Source Type: blogs
Topping Out
The beams went up. This staircase is gone. The walls went up inside. We’re topping out. Did you sign the ceremonial white steel beam that will top our new building? This tradition signifies good wishes for the health and prosperity of construction workers and future occupants. Flashback! Our virtual groundbreaking was 1 year ago! Here’s
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - June 20, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse building Source Type: blogs
We ’re All Ears for Dialogues in Health Equity
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing community comes from different ethnicities and different genders. We all have different abilities, different areas of expertise, and did all sorts of things before finding health care. As such, no two people have had exactly the same experience with the health care system. Turns out, sharing our stories is
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - June 19, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Health Equity Blog social justice Social Media Source Type: blogs
New Systems, Better Care
Nurses and engineers have more in common than you think. For one thing, we believe in problem solving and teamwork. The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing just announced a new interdisciplinary fellowship opportunity in conjunction with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, a division of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School for Engineering. Current Johns
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - June 18, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse Engineering fellowship Source Type: blogs
Toward a Healthy Relationship with Opioids
In the June 14thWall Street Journal, Johns Hopkins University bioethicist Travis Rieder, in an excellent essay, shared with readers his battle with pain resulting from a devastating accident, the effectiveness of opioids in controlling the pain, and the hell he went through when he was too rapidly tapered off of the opioids to which he had become physically dependent. Like most patients requiring long term pain management with opioids, he developed a physical dependence, which is often mistakenly equated with addiction by policymakers and many in the media. The aggressive schedule launched me into withdrawal, and I l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
The Nurse Dads Are Here
From left to right, meet PhD student Andrew Corley, MSN (Entry Into Nursing) student, Derin Colvin, and assistant professor Michael Sanchez, DNP, ARNP, NP-C, FNP-BC, AAHIVS. They’re nurses and dads—Michael and Andrew are brand-new first-timers. Read along to discover how each man found a nursing career in his own time, and his unique experience at
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Show Us Your Blue!
To put it short and sweet, more men in nursing = better men’s health. That’s what Dr. Kenneth Dion, Assistant Dean for Business Innovation and Strategic Relationships, had to say. The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing kicked off men’s health week 2019 on social media with a flurry of encouraging words to the men in
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The Politics of Nursing: Aging
Why do poor people age faster? That’s the central research question for Assistant Professor Laura Samuel, PhD, CRNP. She shared her research at Hopkins on the Hill on June 12, 2019. Here are the facts: There is a 10- to 15-year disparity in life expectancy between people whose income is in the top one percent
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Where did your nursing career begin?
Where’s it going? Between the certification registrations and professionalization of nursing education … the letters can be a bit of a mouthful. See what I mean? Yet nursing’s endlessly tiered ladder makes it an accessible career path. Future nurses can step into the field with minimal educational investment, take
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What ’s Your “Why” for Nursing?
By: Matthew Padgett, MSN (Entry Into Nursing) 2020 It’s a great time to be a nurse. There is a lot of potential for career growth, we have many opportunities to collaborate with the rest of the medical community, and it’s an important space to advocate for social justice—we must achieve respectful care for everyone. But
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