The Medical Center of the America Foundation’s (MCA) Innovation Center announced Monday the launch of Nurse Innovator, a binational program that empowers nurses, and other health care professionals, to take their innovative ideas from concept to prototype to production.
Nurses are spending a day of self-care at the Dovecot Farm in Loxahatchee Groves. It's the "Barn to Bedside" retreat for health care workers dealing with stress from the pandemic.
Maryland, like much of the United States, has wrestled with a nursing shortage for decades — a seemingly incurable affliction — but a historic rate of burnout after treating patients through a grueling pandemic is about to make our nursing crisis much, much worse.
A quick internet search taught her just enough about Presbyterianism to pass along key prayers to the fellow nurses on her ward, and soon she, three other women and a male nurse stood together in the elderly man’s intensive care room, offering up to the hereafter the soul of their COVID patient in a manner roughly akin to the last rites.