Opinion | A Closer Look at the New Statin Therapy Guidelines for Patients With HIV
Fitch is a clinical research nurse practitioner. Diggs is a clinical research coordinator. Grinspoon is a professor of medicine and a clinical researcher. Ms. C*, a 53-year-old African American woman living with HIV for almost a decade, inquired about the recently released recommendations for cardiovascular disease prevention among people with HIV (PWH). Her predicted 10-year […]
Opinion | A Closer Look at the New Statin Therapy Guidelines for Patients With HIV
Fitch is a clinical research nurse practitioner. Diggs is a clinical research coordinator. Grinspoon is a professor of medicine and a clinical researcher. Ms. C*, a 53-year-old African American woman living with HIV for almost a decade, inquired about the recently released recommendations for cardiovascular disease prevention among people with HIV (PWH). Her predicted 10-year […]
Opinion | Hospital-at-Home Could Be a Double-Edged Sword
Knighton is a nurse, scientist, and infection preventionist. By now, you’ve likely heard of the emerging care model of “hospital-at-home,” which enables patients who require acute hospital care to receive it in the comfort of their own homes. Given persisting healthcare worker shortages, hospital closures, and increasing costs of care, innovative patient care models are […]
Opinion | A World AIDS Day Reminder: No One Should Be Left Behind
Guilamo-Ramos is a nurse and HIV/AIDS researcher. As a nurse who has for decades provided clinical care and conducted research on the challenges faced by individuals at risk for and living with HIV, I believe the steady progress our nation has made in combatting HIV/AIDS is truly remarkable. That is why, on this World AIDS […]
NPs No More Likely Than Physicians to Prescribe Inappropriately to Older Adults
Nurse practitioners were no more likely than physicians to inappropriately prescribe medications to older patients, researchers found. In an analysis of Medicare Part D claims, the mean rates of inappropriate prescribing by NPs and primary care doctors were “virtually identical” at adjusted rates of 1.66 and 1.68 per 100 prescriptions, David Studdert, LLB, ScD, of […]
Opinion | Putting an End to the ‘Doctor-Nurse Game’
Libster is a psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist. In 1967, Leonard Stein, MD, coined the term “doctor-nurse game,” which he described as clear agreement between doctors and nurses that their relationship was hierarchical and that physicians were superior. Nurses were to “be bold, have initiative, and be responsible for making important recommendations, while at […]
Nursing Exam Pass Rates Dropped in Recent Years. Why?
The share of candidates who pass the licensure exam to work as a registered nurse has significantly dropped in recent years, and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) — the regulator tasked with overseeing the exams — has no plans to make it any easier. Most leading nurse academics say that’s a […]
Nurse Protests Her Firing Over Refusal to Take Implicit Bias Training
A Texas nurse said she was fired for refusing to take implicit bias training, claiming that states across the U.S. are forcing healthcare professionals to “make false confessions of racism,” and that she “refused to go along.” Laura Morgan, RN, said that she was let go from Dallas-based Baylor Scott & White Health in February, […]
9 Hispanic Medical Pioneers
4 of 10 Ildaura Murillo-Rohde, PhD, RN Known as “the Hispanic whirlwind,” Murillo-Rohde was a nurse, advocate, and educator. Originally from Panama, she immigrated to the U.S., where she eventually became the first Hispanic dean of nursing at New York University. She also founded the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, emphasizing the importance of attracting […]
Pharmacist-Led Hypertension Clinics Able to Lower BP Within Weeks
SAN DIEGO — Across the country, nurse- and pharmacist-led hypertension clinics consistently found it feasible to get blood pressures (BPs) at or close to goal quickly — within a matter of weeks, even — according to single-center reports. In posters presented here at the annual Hypertension Scientific Sessions hosted by the American Heart Association, researchers […]