Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 13, 2025

Her father was then 92, a retired county planner and a World War II veteran; macular degeneration had reduced the quality of his vision, and he used a walker to get around, but he remained cognitively sharp. An aide who was trying to induce him to do something Smith no longer remembers exactly what said, "Let me help you, sweetheart." "He

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

"It's an evolving landscape," says Mallozzi, noting the program is separate from Jefferson's 10-year-old telesitting program, which focuses solely on monitoring and safety care and has shown value in reducing patient falls. They're getting tired, and many are considering retirement," she says. "We

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Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This could help Trinity and other health systems retain nurses who are considering leaving or retiring. Landstrom says the virtual nursing role is typically filled by veteran nurses, and that some nurses “can picture having a longer career” by working as a virtual nurse.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For almost 40 years as the Director of Nursing for Throughput Operations at Montefiore Health System in New York, Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, has been advancing patient care and creating and defining new roles for fellow nurses and other providers. After consecutive years of consistently meeting high Press Ganey (patient.

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University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

APRIL 30, 2024

My father is a retired United States Army veteran with a career focus as a physician assistant, and my mother is an educator. Educating medical residents, graduate nursing students, and graduate health science students in leadership, informatics, quality and patient safety, and evidence-based scholarly practice was a natural fit.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Maria Rodriguez, an OB-GYN professor at Oregon Health & Science University, said that as a resident in the early 2000s at a Catholic hospital she was able to secure permission — what she calls a "pope note" — to sterilize some patients with conditions such as gestational diabetes.

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