Minority Nurse
JULY 10, 2025
A Profession That Needs Healing I started my nursing career in the ICU, told (as many of us are) that hospital experience was a must. Our workforce development programs offer more access and career opportunities than a highly competitive hospital residency. And in a time when the U.S. It’s necessary. My patients were often unconscious.
Minority Nurse
JUNE 23, 2025
Every semester, thousands of nurse practitioner students across the country receive the message they dread most: “I’m sorry, but I can no longer precept students this term.”
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Sensible Medicine
MAY 23, 2025
” File rooms, at every hospital, were staffed by the grumpiest of humans – the result, not doubt, of terrible working conditions and having to deal with impatient (inpatient or outpatient) doctors all-the-damn-time. Viewing an x-ray meant waiting at the window of the “file room.” I know the flaws with this essay. (I
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 18, 2024
My hospital has instituted and removed masking for outpatient care several times now as respiratory infections have waned and waxed. I model this with the residents I precept. I don’t see some terrible consequence of letting the same culture shift occur gradually among medical trainees.
Minority Nurse
JULY 5, 2023
We’re part of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, specifically under the Western Psychiatric Hospital umbrella, a national leader in diagnosing, managing, and treating mental health and addictive disorders. Seeing my dad in the hospital greatly impacted me as a child, and I was continually inspired by the nurses who cared for him.
Minority Nurse
JANUARY 26, 2024
Meanwhile, their less fortunate new grad colleagues take positions where they may be subject to extremely poor (or veritably nonexistent) precepting and essentially set up to sink or swim. Back then, a nurse would attend a nursing school run by a particular hospital. Are Universal Residencies Realistic?
Health Populi
AUGUST 4, 2022
Health consumers are increasingly looking to their home as their health-hub and a site for self-care/healthcare delivery across the continuum of care — from wellness and fitness 180 degrees along the patient journey to hospital-at-home care.
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