Feeding Families or Lighting the Sky: What Should Come First?

Aging Faculty and Retirement Aging nursing faculty members retire due to burnout combined with financial disparities and health issues along with difficulties in keeping up with changing educational methods. The combined demands of teaching responsibilities, research projects, and administrative tasks create overwhelming workloads that frequently result in exhaustion. The lesser… Listen ⇢

Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast—like much of the United States—are now facing a healthcare shortage. And, despite the population growth and medical needs, they struggle to serve their people. These include the dearth of hospitals, a lack of hospital capacity, and a specter of nurses to fill them.… Listen ⇢

Nurses make the healthcare system work but are still facing chronic obstacles that lead to a shortage of staff and risk patient harm. Although their jobs are hard work, demanding, emotionally exhausting, and a lot of work, nurse salaries are often low, making nursing a less attractive career choice for… Listen ⇢

A discharge nurse is a healthcare professional who organizes and supervises patients’ discharge from the hospital. Their main job is to facilitate an optimal transition from hospitalization to the patient’s next stage of recovery, either at home, in a rehabilitation facility or elsewhere. Reducing hospital readmissions is one of the… Listen ⇢

IntroductionNursing is the vanguard of healthcare; they spend their lives treating others. Yet they do so in a physically demanding job that also puts them at a unique set of occupational risks, such as predisposition to certain cancers, including breast cancer. Researchers have attributed this increased risk to work exposures,… Listen ⇢