Black. Baltimore. HIV.
“You have to factor in the historical path it took to get us to where we are in the HIV epidemic in Baltimore, including unequal treatment, inadequate care, substance use in the eighties and nineties, and the health disparities African Americans experience nationwide,” begins Dr. Derek Dangerfield. On National Black HIV/AIDS Day Dr. Dangerfield, Dr.
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 7, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse African Americans health disparities hiv Source Type: blogs
Cells to Society —February 2019
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 6, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Danielle Kress Tags: Cells to Society Aging Cardiovascular Chicago Parent Program Education emergency nursing HIV/AIDS parenting quality and safety research sexual health Technology Violence Source Type: blogs
I Was Supposed to Die at 57
Miki Goodwin recently joined the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing as the Associate Dean of Clinical Practice. The pain was textbook, “In the chest, down the arm, up the jaw” but when Miki Goodwin, then two years in as chief nursing officer of a prominent Phoenix hospital, saw a specialist and asked for an angiogram,
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - February 1, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Cardiovascular On the Pulse go red for women heart disease Womens health Source Type: blogs
A Surprising New Way To Avoid Choking Under Pressure – Imagine You Have The Prize And Are Performing To Keep It
The mental technique is called “incentive reappraisal” and it’s reflected in changed activity in a key brain structure
By Christian Jarrett
Choking is a ubiquitous and extremely frustrating human weakness – as the stakes are raised, our performance usually improves, but only up to a point, beyond which the pressure gets too much and our skills suddenly deteriorate. Any new psychological tricks to ameliorate this problem will be welcomed by sports competitors, students and anyone else who needs to be at their best under high pressure situations.
A fascinating paper in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuro...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Sport Source Type: blogs
Future RNs, Future Hopkins Nurses
Never before have nurses been so desperately needed. Never before have nurses’ words garnered such respect. This is the atmosphere students accepted into the MSN (Entry Into Nursing) Program are entering as they begin their nursing journey. The field is growing rapidly. Demand for RNs is expected to grow 15% and 31% for Nurse Practitioners
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 26, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Accepted Students Day master's entry MSN Source Type: blogs
And The Winner Is … Student Leaders of 2019
Students at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing work hard and are dedicated, not just to Johns Hopkins, but to the greater Baltimore community. A special few truly epitomize what it means to be a “Hopkins Nurse;” they go above and beyond in their commitment to impacting the world at large. In effort to recognize
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 24, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Awards student leaders Source Type: blogs
New Research Raises Concerns About the Dangers of Marijuana Use
Whatever your personal position on the subject of marijuana legalization, whether for medical or recreational use, a growing body of research reveals concerns over the potential harms caused by cannabis.
The concerns are more than academic. With increasing public support (varying by demographic cohorts) for legalized marijuana, and 10 states legalizing recreational marijuana and 33 states where medical marijuana use is legal, the cannabis movement is just gaining steam.
A new Pew Research Center report shows that 6 in 10 Americans (62 percent) say marijuana should be legal. Millennials support legalized marijuana more tha...
Source: World of Psychology - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Research Substance Abuse Cannabis Drug Use Marijuana side effects Source Type: blogs
Why You Might Need a Dose of Sugar in Your MRI
Sugar could become an effective replacement for metal in contrast agents in magnetic resonance tomography analyses, according to researchers from John Hopkins University and Lund University in Sweden.There has been heated debate over the safety of certain contrast agents, and the Food and Drug Administration has warnedthat gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) can linger in the brain for months or years after the patient ’s procedure. Using alternatives like sugar could potentially diminish the risk of adverse side effects associated with GBCAs. Studies using animals demonstrated that D-glucose could be a possible b...
Source: radRounds - January 18, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
‘Cultural Humility’ Impacts Patient Safety for Transgender Women Healing From a Vaginoplasty
By: Matt Hopper A common theme among transgender women who undergo a vaginoplasty is their frustration with the health care system and lack of confidence that practitioners can or will provide quality care for gender-affirming procedures (medical procedures that affirm a transgender person’s gender identity). These medical procedures, such as hormone therapy, “top” surgery (i.e.
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 17, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Health Equity On the Pulse LGBT postoperative transgender Source Type: blogs
Career Services, Students, and Alumni Take Questions on Nursing Careers
#OfficeHour is a monthly chat on Facebook and Twitter where anyone can ask Johns Hopkins School of Nursing experts questions about their field. In January’s #OfficeHour, Career Services director Laura Arthur and students and alumni of the MSN (Entry Into Nursing) Program tackled frequently asked questions about the job hunt for nurses. On Twitter, current
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 17, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse careers MSN (Entry Into Nursing) office hour RN Source Type: blogs
‘ Dirty John ’ and a Safety Plan for Domestic Violence
By: Dr. Nancy Glass If you have been following Dirty John, the Wondery and LA Times podcast and Bravo TV series, you likely didn’t miss the final episode. Thankfully the Newell family was safe, but their lives were forever changed. At the last minute, Debra Newell (actor Connie Britton) decided to return the call from LA
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 16, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Domestic violence myplan Source Type: blogs
The Nursing Journey Begins With a White Coat
By: Dr. Bruce Schoneboom Dr. Bruce Schoneboom delivered this speech on January 10, 2019 at the white coat ceremony of the Spring 2019 cohort of MSN (Entry Into Nursing) students. He was the keynote speaker of the ceremony. Photos from the January 2019 White Coat Ceremony Welcome to all of the incoming students, as well
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 15, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse master's entry speech white coat Source Type: blogs
Excellence … Everywhere.
High quality online education in nursing is a game-changer. And the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing is leading the way; U.S. News & World Report just named us as the No. 1 online graduate nursing program in the United States. This is quite an achievement, we’re up from No. 5 in 2018. And although a
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 15, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse online nursing rankings Source Type: blogs
6 Reasons There ’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Nurse
“The people you touch you may not remember, but they will always remember you. They will remember your kindness and compassion during an important moment in their lives,” says Dean Patricia Davidson. Nurses are privileged to do work that matters. And there’s never been a better time to become a nurse or advance in the
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - January 3, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse careers Source Type: blogs
14 Best Blogs of 2018
It’s hard to believe the diversity—and convergence—of heart, skill, and lived experience inside each member of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing community. In the editor’s choice of the top 14 blogs of 2018, writers open up about the inner forces that stir them to do the work of nursing in Baltimore, in South Sudan,
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - December 20, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse Blog Source Type: blogs
