Nurse practitioner Alice Benjamin is just one of many modern health care heroes taking advantage of the telehealth trend. The nationwide isolation caused by the 2020 pandemic forced medical providers ...

With more than two decades of experience in higher education, cultural criticism and politics, Horacio Sierra's writing and public speaking aims to demystify higher education and promote the ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A few years ago, hospitals were offering nurses $10,000 signing bonuses, loan payoffs, even cars as incentives to battle a nursing shortage in Texas. Today, some nursing school ...

Christin Perry is a freelance writer with a passion for all topics related to health and family. She has been working as a writer for seven years now, and her work has appeared in Parents, The Bump, ...

The nursing shortage has eased, at least temporarily, in some parts of the U.S. May 24, 2010 — -- Nursing is supposed to be one of the country's most in-demand professions -- so why can't Muna ...

Unlike some science fields, there is no glut of nursing professors with doctorates. In fact, it’s often a challenge for schools of nursing to recruit faculty. However, early-career nursing scholars ...

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A locum dental nurse is a temporary nurse who helps cover shifts when a permanent nurse is unavailable. This could be due to sickness, holidays, maternity leave, or unexpected staff shortages. In the ...