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Breastfeeding: Why Kelly Maher Carvell Thinks You’re Overthinking It

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Mama, are you feeling overwhelmed with breastfeeding? If so…this is the conversation for you. Kelly Maher Carvell is a Certified Lactation Counselor who specializes in holistic lactation support with her innovative telehealth lactation practice while you’re bumping and through weaning. What I love about Kelly is that for her, it’s all about helping mamas overcome their breastfeeding concerns and supporting them…

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Nurse and midwife numbers jump by record amount

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Record numbers of nurses and midwives have registered to work in the UK with 18,000 more than a year ago. By the end of March, there were 716,600 nurses, midwives and nurse associates on the register, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Despite this the NMC is worried coronavirus will hit the ability to […]

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8 tips from a nurse to make telehealth take off at your organization

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Over the past several months, providers and their patients have had to ramp up telehealth in a hurry. Although reviews are early, usage is on the rise and both clearly acknowledge the potential for telehealth in everyday practice. But providers also say they struggle to “see” as many patients a day through telehealth as they […]

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Nurse Who Survived COVID-19 Shares Jaw-Dropping Photo Of What It Did To His Body

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A nurse from San Francisco is shining a light on the severity of COVID-19 with a shocking photo of the effects it had on his body. Last week, Mike Schultz shared side-by-side images of himself with his over 40,000 Instagram followers of the dramatic 50-pound weight loss he experienced during an eight-week hospital stay as […]

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Coronavirus: Boris Johnson was ‘just another patient’ – New Zealand nurse

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Boris Johnson was just “another patient we were trying to do our best for,” the New Zealand nurse credited with helping to save his life has said. Jenny McGee was praised by the PM for standing by his bedside “when things could have gone either way” while he […]

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Navigating nurse burnout in response to COVID-19

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As the number of known Covid-19 infections continues to increase and supplies dwindle at hospitals across the world, healthcare workers in the U.S. are under greater stress than ever. At the beginning of March, members of the National Nurses United union called on the CDC to quickly increase access to tests for Covid-19 and demanded […]

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Mom Covers Her ICU Nurse Daughter In A Sheet Just So They Can Hug

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Although they only live 15 minutes away from each another, Cheryl Norton and her daughter Kelsey Kerr had not touched one another in a month — and that was tough for them. “We’ve always been big huggers,” Kerr, 28, explained to Good Morning America on Wednesday. “And it’s been pretty unusual.” The mother and daughter have […]

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Nurse deaths ‘inevitable’ from coronavirus

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It is “inevitable” more health workers will die from coronavirus, the UK’s largest nursing union has said. Theresa Fyffe, director of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland, was speaking after the deaths of nurses Aimee O’Rourke and Areema Nasreen, who had both tested positive for the virus. She said the circumstances of both deaths […]

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Jennifer Aniston Serves Up Delicious Surprise For Nurse With Coronavirus

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“Friends” star Jennifer Aniston joined comedian Jimmy Kimmel on his late night TV show on Thursday to surprise and thank a cardiovascular nurse who has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Kimball Fairbanks, from St. George, Utah, appeared visibly stunned when Aniston joined the video call she having with the “Jimmy […]

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My fight with bureaucracy to work as cancer nurse

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Louisa Doyle should be working for the NHS, caring for cancer patients. She is fully trained to provide vital chemotherapy treatment, having worked for five years in Australia before coming to the UK. But this week, the 31-year-old will fly back home. With about one in eight nurse posts vacant, the NHS has potentially lost […]

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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey gives birth to twin boys

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Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who survived the deadly Ebola virus, has given birth to twin sons. The 43-year-old worked as a volunteer in Sierra Leone, where an epidemic killed almost 4,000 people, in 2014. The father Robert Softley Gale, a theatre director and disability campaigner, announced the news by posting an image of the […]

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Chester hospital baby deaths probe: Nurse Lucy Letby rearrested

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A nurse has been rearrested by police investigating the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neo-natal unit. Lucy Letby was first arrested in July last year on suspicion of the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of another six. She has now been rearrested in connection with the attempted murder […]

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NHS turns to Mumsnet to fill nurse vacancies

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The NHS in England will turn to Mumsnet to help recruit nurses as part of a package of measures to fill vacancies in the health service. NHS bosses see the online parenting chatroom and website as a crucial partner to entice nurses who have left the profession, to rejoin it. It is one of a […]