The White House drew criticism for a proposal to use CMS financial clout for a vaccine mandate that would apply to nursing homes. Some called for a broader application of this planned initiative.
Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, MSc
A team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, led by Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, MSc, and Marie-Anne Durand, PhD, has received a $6.2 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to test approaches that may increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine among those working in long-term care facilities.
PCORI is an independent, non-profit organization authorized by Congress in 2010 with the mission of funding research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information they need to make better informed healthcare decisions.
Public health experts agree that COVID-19 vaccination is the most promising solution to the pandemic. But vaccine hesitancy persists among some groups in the U.S. with factors such as the speed of vaccine development, limited research data on vaccine safety, and poor-quality information on the web and in the media contributing to people having m
Last updated: Anne Marie Lee, Chairperson, Alliance of Health Care Assistants in Ireland.
Planning a career path for healthcare assistants Published: Last updated:
Sun 25 Jul 2021, 2:36 AM
Irish nursing grew out of the charitable works of middle-class gentlewomen who visited the sick poor in their own homes.
Following on from this came the founding of the Sisters of Mercy and the Irish Sisters of Charity in the first half of the 1800s and the setting up of St Vincent’s and the Mater Hospitals for the sick poor.
Women who worked as nurses were untrained; the requirement for employment as a nurse in hospitals was that they be of good character and able to read and write. Formal nurse training began in the Dublin hospitals in the 1870s.
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