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Adventure in Healing: How to Thrive as a Travel Nurse Across the Globe
Travel nursing presents a unique opportunity to blend professional growth with personal adventure. If you’re drawn to caring for others and have a passion for exploring new places, becoming a travel nurse might be your ideal career path. This dyna…
The Rise of Digital Therapeutics: Software as a Medical Treatment
Digital therapeutics (DTx) represent a new frontier in healthcare, offering evidence-based therapeutic interventions driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. This innovative approach is r…
Precision Medicine: Tailoring Treatments to Individual Patients
Precision medicine represents a paradigm shift in healthcare, moving away from the one-size-fits-all approach to treatment. By considering individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle, precision medicine aims to tailor medical decis…
Seeking Second Opinions – Beneficial for Patients and Medical Teams
Maybe you’re the patient or on the medical team. Either way, referrals to a specialist are common, particularly when it becomes clear that the compliant patient isn’t improving despite following current clinical practice guidelines. At Skin, Bones…
The Impact of Social Media on Healthcare: Navigating Misinformation and Leveraging Opportunities
Social media has become an integral part of modern life, significantly influencing how people access, share, and interpret health information. For healthcare providers, understanding the impact of social media on healthcare is crucial for addressi…
Educating APPS in Pain Management – A Needs Assessment
Education for APPs Healthcare Clinicians
There is well-documented evidence of the need for increased pain management education for physicians (Shipton, et al., 2018; Tran, et al., 2018). The Institute of Medicine (Institute of Medicine, 2011) and…
What is Happening with the Sunscreen Dilemma?
In 2019, the last time I spoke for Skin, Bones, Hearts and Private Parts, I blogged about the sunscreen dilemma. The dilemma was perpetuated by two studies: one which looked at the effectiveness of an SPF above 30 while the second study looked a…
Understanding the Importance of Cultural Competence in Healthcare
Cultural competence in healthcare refers to the ability of providers to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. As the population becomes increasingly diverse, the importance of cultu…
How Tech Careers are Revolutionizing Healthcare and Enhancing Patient Care
Healthcare is both built upon and resistant to change. On the one hand, doctors, nurses, and researchers lean on trusted solutions to old problems. On the other hand, technological innovations are rapidly improving the way that healthcare provider…
The High-Demand Nursing Careers and Why There’s a Shortage of Candidates
You needn’t look very far to hear stories about nursing shortages. Where once staffing issues were a problem reserved for rural hospitals or other isolated areas, now they are experienced almost nationwide. It is a pervasive issue that has been be…