Category Archives: Cardiac Nursing

University of Maine researchers developed an augmented reality smartphone app for teaching nursing students an interactive lesson about heart failure. The app displays a floating, animated heart model onto the smartphone screen, which is imposed onto the video feed from the camera. Continue reading →

Yolanda Carter, RN, MSN, JD, began her career in the 1980s working as a trauma nurse in a Texas emergency department, where she would often accompany STEMI patients to the cath lab, and fell in love with the work being done there. Born to Native American and Black parents, Carters own childhood history of rheumatic fever convinced her that cardiovascular medicine was her calling. Continue reading →

KINGSTON, N.Y. The parent company of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley said it laid off hospital employees in Kingston on Mondayto eliminate "redundancies" as it begins to consolidate inpatient services at its two city locations into the Mary's Avenue Campus. Westchester Medical Center Health Network would not say how many people were let go, only that there was no reduction of bedside nursing positions and that services will continue at current levels. Continue reading →

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Dominick D'Anna flew B-52s from bases across the U.S. He died in November 2014, at the age of 80.(Photo: Courtesy of John D'Anna) This will be my seventh Fathers Day with no one to buy a card for Continue reading →

Show Caption Hide Caption Algae in the C-44 Canal near Indiantown on June 2, 2021 This video shows toxic microcystis algae in the C-44 Canal about 12 miles east of Port Mayaca Lock and Dam across from Timer Powers Park in Indiantown. Ed Killer, Wochit Bella died last month in a gush of bloody horror after the 8-year-old boxers owners believe she ate toxin-laced detritus from the C-51 canal marking her as possibly the first reported canine death in Palm Beach County from blue-green algae poisoning Continue reading →

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that employment in medical and health services will increase by 18 percent by the year 2026. Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus offers Associate of Applied Science degrees in nine disciplines that prepare students to fill that growing need and take advantage of that growing opportunity Continue reading →

Submitted | Crookston Times St. Francis Hospital was once a major medical center in Crookston, located next to Walsh Park in the building now known as The SUMMIT Senior Apartments with Assisted Living Services. Delores Kroll, LPN, a current SUMMIT tenant, fondly reminisced about the era of St Continue reading →

A person is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through testing for COVID-19 Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Houston. People were lined up in their cars in a line that stretched over two miles to be tested in the drive-thru testing for coronavirus. (AP Photo/David J. Continue reading →

Applications to medical schools, in the one year since COVID, have gone up dramatically. In some schools close to 50% increase Continue reading →