article thumbnail

Leadership in the Age of Stacks

LifeSciVC

Nurses, techs, anesthesiologists, even transport staff can hold critical insight. The exuberance of 2020–2021 has given way to a more constrained, unpredictable landscape. These hospitals aren’t academic centers; they function with lean staffing, limited resources, and personnel often spread across units.

article thumbnail

Automated red blood cell exchange: bridging treatment gaps in sickle cell disease care

Drug Target Review

Meet the authors Carly Newton, RN, MBA is the Senior Manager, Apheresis Clinical Marketing at Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies Carly earned her Nursing degree at the University of South Australia and started her early career as a nurse in Australia, where she spent over a decade providing critical patient care, primarily in ICU settings.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

Codon

These challenges have led to strategies such as directly observed therapy (DOT), in which nurses or physicians monitor patients to ensure they take their medicine every day. Nurses meet with patients daily, in person, or — in areas with electricity and access to technology — watch them take their pills via an online video call.

article thumbnail

Cancer & COVID Drove Him to Double-Lung Transplant

Drugs.com

MONDAY, May 13, 2024 -- Chicago resident Arthur “Art” Gillespie fell ill in early March 2020 with COVID, after he and his father went to visit an uncle in a nursing facility.“I I was hospitalized for 12 days with a high fever and cough, and.

article thumbnail

Nurses Can Make the Difference for New Moms’ Breastfeeding

The Pharma Data

21, 2020 — One key to breastfeeding success? Having enough hospital nurses to ensure that new moms get top-notch care. Hospitals with higher rates of exclusive breastfeeding had nurses who provided more consistent care, according to a new report. ” She’s a perinatal clinical nurse specialist in St.

article thumbnail

Meet the 100+ outstanding Nurses and Midwives

The Pharma Data

To mark the end of the Year of the Nurse and Midwife , we are honored to unveil the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Women Nurses and Midwives. Midwives and nurses—the overwhelming majority of whom are women—are the backbone of primary health systems. Source link.

article thumbnail

Nurse Practitioners Key to Opioid Treatment in Rural U.S.: Study

The Pharma Data

26, 2020 — In isolated areas of the United States, nurse practitioners are filling an important role in helping people access treatment for opioid addiction, according to a Washington State University (WSU) study. ” Nurse practitioners are sometimes the only health care provider in these very rural areas, Klein explained.