As we come upon Thanksgiving Day, Pocket Nurse wants to express our thanks that we have been able to meet the challenges of 2020. We have worked very hard to meet the demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), hand sanitizers, disinfectant cleaning supplies, face masks and shields, and protective barriers.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act allocated $14 billion to post-secondary institutions to use with the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) portion. Schools can use these funds for distance learning equipment, financial aid to students, and other supplies and equipment that support their curricula.
As is well known by now, breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women. White women and black women in the United States get breast cancer at similar rates, but black women die of breast cancer at a higher rate than white women.
Nearly one in five adults in the United States lives with a mental illness, which can range in severity from mild to moderate to severe.1 World-wide, approximately 450 million people suffer with a mental or behavioral problem that impacts their daily living. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), among the ten leading causes of disability are ...
Midwives have been practicing as long as women have been having babies. The history of midwifery, obstetrics, and gynecology date back to earliest human times. However, midwifery practice didn’t appear officially in the United States until 1925, when