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Telephone triage nursing: When patients call

American Nurse

Because telephone triage nurses can’t use their sense of sight, smell, or touch to evaluate the patient or perform a clinical assessment, they must rely on the caller’s answers to guide their assessment and the advice they provide.

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Countering human trafficking

American Nurse

But if we become aware of some subtle signals, we’ll find it’s there,” said Joop Breuer, RN, FAEN, co-author of the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and International Association of Forensic Nurses joint position statement, Human Trafficking Awareness in the Emergency Care Setting.

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22 Health Science Careers for Biology Majors

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Physician Assistant As a physician assistant (PA), you can work across a wide variety of practice settings, from emergent care to surgery to family practice. 13 Like physicians, nurse practitioners can specialize in specific areas of medicine, such as psychiatry, family or pediatrics.