We Need to Talk about Wound Care in Transgender Women Healing From a Vaginoplasty
By: Matt Hopper A lot of transgender women who undergo a vaginoplasty report being frustrated with the health care system and lack of competent practitioners who can provide quality care for gender-affirming procedures (medical procedures that affirm a transgender person’s gender identity). These procedures, such as hormone therapy, “top” surgery (i.e. mastectomy, breast implants, etc.),
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 31, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Health Equity On the Pulse LGBT postoperative transgender Source Type: blogs
Mini-Brain Platform Mimics Human Brain to Help Develop Drugs, Test Therapies
Studying the effect of potential therapies on the human brain is exceedingly difficult. Laboratory animals have proven to be less than ideal as mimics for identifying how a given therapy will work in people, leading to exceedingly long and difficult research journeys.
Now AxoSim, a company based in New Orleans, will soon be making its Mini-Brain platform available to researchers who are studying how the brain functions, developing new drugs, and testing the toxicity of various chemicals. The technology behind the Mini-Brain has been licensed from Johns Hopkins University, where it was originally developed.
The Mini-Brain p...
Source: Medgadget - May 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Genetics Medicine Oncology Pathology Source Type: blogs
Don ’t Fall for the Red Herring: Nurse Detectives Discover Mental Illness in Older Adults
By: Brittany Drazich, MSN, RN, and Janiece Taylor, PhD, RN, FAAN Murder mysteries are so dependable. By the end of a story, Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple or Father Brown or whoever identifies the culprit. There’s a structure to it, authors often use a literary tool called a “red herring,” which is basically a misleading
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 28, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Aging On the Pulse Mental Health Older Adults Source Type: blogs
Nurse Grads Are Here
The crowd at graduation today was full of family, friends, well-wishers… and the latest crop of Hopkins nurses setting out into the world to change health care systems for the better. The keynote speaker was Ahrin Mishan, the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Executive Director. Under his leadership, the Foundation has built a pipeline of
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 22, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse graduation Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Source Type: blogs
Six DARPA-funded research teams aim at revolutionizing noninvasive brain-machine interfaces
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DARPA Funds Ambitious Brain-Machine Interface Program (IEEE Spectrum):
“DARPA’s Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program has awarded funding to six groups attempting to build brain-machine interfaces that match the performance of implanted electrodes but with no surgery whatsoever.
By simply popping on a helmet or headset, soldiers could conceivably command control centers without touching a keyboard; fly drones intuitively with a thought; even feel intrusions into a secure network. While the tech sounds futuristic, DARPA wants to get it done in four years … The N3 program fits right into...
Source: SharpBrains - May 22, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology brain training brain-machine interfaces DARPA N3 neurotechnologies Neurotechnology noninvasive noninvasive neurotechnologies Source Type: blogs
A Grand Vision for Nursing
Meet Ahrin Mishan, spring 2019 commencement speaker. Yet, as executive director of the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, he is seeking innovative ways and new places to stimulate growth and change. Under his leadership, the Hillman Foundation has built a pipeline of support for bold, nursing-led models of care for vulnerable populations—even at their earliest
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse graduation Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation Source Type: blogs
Streaming for Nurses
“Nurses week” was the theme of Johns Hopkins first-ever Charity Streams fundraiser. So what exactly is it? “Live charity streams is a new innovative way to fundraise!” says Gill Wylie, a development coordinator in Development & Alumni Relations. Gill organized the event with Donovan Stannard from the IT department. “Streamers” are people who post live
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 20, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Development and Alumni Relations Nurses Week Source Type: blogs
The Caregiver ’ s Mental Health is Important Too
By: Martha Abshire, PhD, RN I cared for my father in the last few years of his life. He suffered from chronic pain and the opioids he used to manage his condition impacted his mental health. He became more socially isolated, his sleep patterns changed, and he often fell asleep throughout the day. Eventually he
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 15, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Cardiovascular and Chronic Conditions New On the Pulse caregiver heart failure Mental Health promote Source Type: blogs
5 Benefits of Becoming a Preceptor
As a preceptor, you help the next generation of RNs and advanced practice RNs translate classroom learning into hands on patient care. You’re supporting your profession, watching them gain confidence in practice, and you may even learn a few things—new nurses are full of fresh ideas. But beyond the altruistic good feelings, here are 5
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 14, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse preceptor Source Type: blogs
Nurses (and Almost Nurses!) Talk Balancing School, Work & Family
Kelli DePriest and her new baby Walter, along with Katie Spearman and Nasrin Akter are chatting in front of Jay’s Cafe; Dr. Tamar Rodney is nearby pushing toy strollers with Akira and Akila, new PhD grad Reiko Asano’s twins. Along comes Safiyyah Okoye with her three-month-old son, Asa. He’s smiling alot, so the twins run
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 10, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse mother's day MSN (Entry Into Nursing) PhD Source Type: blogs
Q & A with Dr. Peter Buerhaus, New Society of Scholars Inductee
The 2019 inductees into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars included Peter Buerhaus, PhD, RN, FAAN, Dean Patricia Davidson’s nominee. Dr. Buerhaus is a nurse and a health care economist who is well known for his studies on the nursing and physician workforces in the U.S. Dr. Buerhaus is currently affiliated with Montana State University;
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 7, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse men in nursing Society of Scholars Source Type: blogs
Q & A with Dr. Kim McIltrot, New DNP Program Director
Kimberly McIltrot, DNP, CPNP, CWOCN is the newly selected Program Director for the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing—recently ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report. She’s a former officer in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (who was awarded the Bronze Service Star for her work
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 6, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse dnp Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Journalists Tour Nursing
The Association of Healthcare Journalists conference kicked off today with a tour of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Attendees saw: How we’re taking on the opioid epidemic Incredible tech advances in simulation Nurses critical role in responding to domestic violence The student-led session, “Answering the Crisis: Opioid & Harm Reduction,” was run by students
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 2, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Conference Domestic violence intimate partner violence opioid Simulation Source Type: blogs
The Nursing Voice in Burnout, Aging, and Intimate Partner Violence
Health care journalists, meet nursing. Dean Patricia Davidson, Dr. Sarah Szanton, and Dr. Nancy Glass will handle it from here. You’ll meet them at the 2019 Association of Health Care Journalists Conference, which we’re hosting along with the Johns Hopkins University, and the schools of Medicine and Public Health. Until then, you can learn more
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 1, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Aging burnout Conference Domestic violence Nancy Glass Patricia Davidson sarah szanton Source Type: blogs
Nurses Don ’ t Play Cards
A message from Dean Davidson: Many of you probably saw the recent news regarding a U.S. Senator’s remarks that nurses spend most of their day playing cards and complaining about their workload. Or, you saw the social media backlash that spread (#nursesdontplaycards) and the comments from nurses across the country who wanted to set the
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - May 1, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Advocacy Politics Source Type: blogs
