"Any person from any background, with the right resources and the right support, can achieve a dream." While she acknowledges such a sentiment may sound corny to some, it is anything but a cliché to the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing's newest assistant professor, Dr. Dahianna Lopez.
Renee Collins said her private practice in the small told town of Cleveland, Tennessee focuses on serving patients who are 65 and older, battling chronic diseases. “Many of my dementia patients cannot get in the doctor’s office and have a two hour wait to visit a doctor for 15 minutes,” explained Collins.
Fashion and beauty influencers have been earning fame, and a living, on social media for some time. Now, medical professionals are going on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to get their brands out there, as well as take in some extra cash.
Lynne Rugh never thought nursing was for her. But a nudge from a friend’s mother led her to a rewarding career she has been working in for close to five decades. “The funny thing is, I did not want to be a nurse,” said Rugh, director of the Citizens School of Nursing at the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer. “I wanted to teach English.”
On Tuesday morning, nearly 8,000 nurses, nursing assistants, lab workers, environmental service technicians, dietary workers, clerks, and other hospital staff launched their first-ever strike — in a health care labor stoppage their union is hailing as the largest of its kind in the nation in at least five years.
More Californians are acquiring medical insurance, but there are increasingly fewer primary care doctors to treat them. There’s an easy partial fix, but it’s blocked by an old turf war. Negotiating a truce is not easy. In fact, it’s probably impossible.