Recent Articles

• Nurse coaches are essential to healing the healthcare industry

  Nicole Vienneau Healthcare Administration

  I love being a nurse — it is my calling. I feel passion, connection, joy and dedication towards my craft, my colleagues, and myself, but, mostly towards my patients. This was not always so. I was once a burned-out critical care nurse disillusioned and frustrated with my job. My patients became sicker and sicker, as the healthcare system became more convoluted and technology-driven. But I felt stuck. What else would I do? Did I tell you that I love being a nurse?

• Should you brush your teeth before or after eating breakfast?

  Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental Healthcare

  Who even cares about Yanny and Laurel? That is so last week. For dentists, a more important either/or debate centers on whether people should brush their teeth before or after breakfast. No, really. It turns out the order in which we perform our morning rituals (namely, teeth brushing) can impact the health of our teeth over the long haul. As dental professionals, we should present a unified front on this important topic.

• Little-known facts about Memorial Day

  Dave G. Houser Recreation & Leisure

  With our minds focused on beach or pool visits, barbecuing and other activities associated with the unofficial start of summer, it’s easy to overlook what Memorial Day is really all about. Clearly, it is about much more than a fun-filled three-day weekend. Memorial Day, of course, is a solemn day of remembrance in honor of the men and women who have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. But how much more do you actually know about the holiday and its origins?

• FDA tries a new approach with guidance on opioid use disorder medications

  Dr. Abimbola Farinde Pharmaceutical

  In the United States, the opioid epidemic is recognized as a growing public health crisis that has been identified across all levels of socioeconomic status. Within the last 16 years, it is reported that more than 183,000 Americans have died as a result of prescription opioid overdoses. Members of the medical community and government officials have been attempting to develop strategies to curtail the rise of addictions and deaths related to the crisis. Recently, a new approach has been adopted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

• Urban design gone wrong: Parks

  Lucy Wallwork Facilities & Grounds

  Ever since someone described parks as the "lungs of the city," cities have been competing to declare themselves as "green" by allocating space for public parks in urban redevelopment initiatives. This race to boost the percentage of green space for city brochures is typical of this age of "competitive cities." In many ways it is welcome — parks have even been shown to not only make us healthier but even make us smarter. But parks should not be judged on quantity, but quality.

• How the ‘gig economy’ is changing employment

  Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Workplaces are changing. Take the "gig economy," for example. How will it be affected by a recent California Supreme Court ruling on self-employed independent contractors and company employees? "The ruling may bring some much-needed clarity to the new world of work," said author and entrepreneur Marion McGovern. Key issues of employer control and direction of independent contractors and employees that the Golden State’s high court ruled on can and should lead "to more transparency in the law," which she views as a positive step forward.

• Senators seek greater funding for FCC’s rural telemedicine efforts

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  The Washington machine is churning, and it wants more money from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the Rural Health Care Program. More than $400 million is earmarked for the effort now, but 31 U.S. senators want the FCC to increase that annual cap to bolster funding for rural communities to support telemedicine. Advocates of telemedicine are likely over the moon at the possibility of even more federal support for the effort.

• Help your residents cope better with long shifts

  Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Night float, overnight calls and 28-hour days have become the norm for today's medical residents — they're a necessary evil in terms of the immersive learning young doctors need. Yet the residents you supervise are human, and the easier they can get through a tough shift, the better their results, their productivity, and the safety of your patients will be. Employ these research-proven tips to help your residents stay on their toes for the long haul.

• Hunting, fishing opportunities to expand at National Wildlife Refuges

  John McAdams Recreation & Leisure

  ​In another bit of good news for hunters and anglers, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke just announced plans to expand hunting and fishing opportunities at dozens of National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) all over the United States. If all goes as planned, these changes would open or increase outdoor recreation opportunities on over 248,000 acres of land managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in time for the 2018-19 hunting season.

• Stigmatizing language in medical records might affect a patient’s…

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Clinicians who use stigmatizing language in their patients’ medical records might be affecting the future care those patients receive, according to a new study. Healthcare disparities can prevent patients from getting the diagnostic and treatment services they need. Clinician bias plays a role in these healthcare disparities. When practitioners review notes and descriptions entered on previous visits, the language used in those notes might play a role in the treatment of that patient. Stigmatizing language may even affect how aggressively doctors manage that patient’s pain on subsequent encounters.

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