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Burn Care for Underserved Communities: A Certified Burn Nurse’s Perspective

Minority Nurse

As burn injuries are often associated with several social determinants of health, including poverty (Patel, 2018), food insecurity (Elsey, 2016), and living in under-resourced neighborhoods (Alnabantah, 2016), burn nurses play a crucial role in caring for some of the patients most in need of care. 2018 Apr;202:38-42. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

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Magnet Status Matters: What Magnet Recognition Means for Hospitals and the Nurses Working There

Minority Nurse

To succeed in health care, interdisciplinary communication and a collaborative mission of nursing practice can result in better partnerships with hospital leadership. per discharge. Stop by booth 2018. Obtaining Magnet status can be expensive for smaller institutions. So, nurses, do your research.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

In 2018, I was promoted to my current role of managing director of NCPC. This was rather eye-opening, as it takes an enormous amount of work and collaboration necessary to pull together a functional disaster preparedness plan. I spent five days in the hospital and was discharged home on oxygen.

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Estimates of COVID-19 Medical Costs in the US: $20K for inpatient stay, $1300 OOP costs

Health Populi

Patients are facing health care costs that may result in multi-thousand dollar bills at discharge (or death) that will decimate households’ financial health, particularly among people who don’t have health insurance coverage, covered by skinny or under-benefited plans, and/or lack banked savings for medical spending.