Category: Healthcare Providers
How to brush your teeth properly, according to a dentist
Most of us brush our teeth on autopilot. So let’s stop and ask: are you doing it properly? For a full two minutes? Do you use the correct type of brush and toothpaste? Did you know you’re supposed to spit, not rinse after brushing?
Confused by what your doctor tells you? A new study discovers how communication gaps between doctors and patients can be cured
Most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand, but some have the unique ability to tailor their language to meet their patients’ communication needs and overcome the confusion that is so common in health care.
Nearly half of healthcare workers have considered leaving their jobs due to their pandemic experience, UW survey finds
Fifty-nine percent of nurses said that their experiences working during the COVID-19 pandemic had somewhat or significantly reduced their likelihood of remaining in their current field.
Support and collaboration with health-care providers can help people make health decisions
Patient decision aids and decision coaching support people to have an active role in making decisions. Decision aids include booklets, videos and online tools that make the decision clear, provide options and the pros and cons, and help people clarify what matters to them.
Nurses in Crisis Over Covid Dig In for Better Work Conditions
Union membership among U.S. nurses has inched up over the past 15 years and held steady, at about 17%, for five years. But 2021, a year of union organizing and holdouts in such disparate workplaces as Starbucks cafes and John Deere tractor plants, might well be a turning point for essential workers in health care.
With Too Few Nurses, It Won’t Take Much to Overwhelm Hospitals This Winter
Hospitals nationwide are canceling nonemergency surgeries, struggling to quickly find beds for patients and failing to meet the minimum nurse-patient ratios experts recommend.
A Title Fight Pits Physician Assistants Against Doctors
After 23 years as a physician assistant, Leslie Clayton remains rankled by one facet of her vocation: its title. Specifically, the word “assistant.”
School Nurse Deficit Deepens as States Seek Relief
Since school doors opened this fall, school nurses have been working nonstop on COVID-19 contact tracing and quarantines.
Medical errors keep killing patients – Here’s how to reduce the death toll.
It’s estimated that up to 400,000 Americans die every year from medical mistakes.
Half of unvaccinated workers say they’d rather quit than get a shot – but real-world data suggest few are following through
But while it is easy and cost-free to tell a pollster you’ll quit your job, actually doing so when it means losing a paycheck you and your family may depend upon is another matter.
Rural Hospitals Can’t Find the Nurses They Need to Fight COVID
Across the country, thousands of hospitals are overwhelmed with critically ill patients, prompting many overburdened nurses to change careers or retire early. The shortages are particularly dire in rural areas, rural health experts say, because of the aging workforce and population, smaller salaries and intense workload.
The Pandemic Has Devastated the Mental Health of Public Health Workers
Public health workers have been vilified by a portion of the public and attacked by some political leaders and media figures.
The Pandemic Has Devastated the Mental Health of Public Health Workers
Public health workers have been vilified by a portion of the public and attacked by some political leaders and media figures. They have been fired or forced from office. They have been subjected to protests—some on their own front lawns—as well as curses, threats and even, on at least one occasion, racist taunts.
Washington state calls on providers to work to boost COVID-19 vaccination
COVID-19 vaccine trains your immune system to fight SARS-CoV-2.
Court ruling may embolden healthcare workers to call out safety issues
Decision could mean that hospitals and other employers will need to revise their policies barring workers from talking to the news media and posting on social media.