Workers and health care facilities say assaults by patients is a growing problem, amid a ballooning mental health crisis and ...

Traditionally, diversity is spoken about in terms of racial differences. But systems are expanding the way they approach ...

Zhanette Coffee, Ph.D., MSN, APRN, spent years working as an advanced practice nurse with certifications in family practice ...

More and more young women are hesitant about having children. New research from Uppsala University shows that 1 in 4 are ...

After Sarah Wright underwent a traumatic pelvic exam at UW Health, she started the effort to create a bill to prevent others ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Since 2022, Colorado and 10 other states have passed voter initiatives to protect or expand abortion access. Yet, seven of these states, including Colorado, require people under the ...

Warning! Sweeping changes in public health are on the rise. The latest word, according to Stat, is that the Department of ...

Most aspiring med spa owners don’t realize that in many states, they legally can’t own their business without a medical degree. These corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) laws exist to prevent ...

The union that represents more than 30,000 nurses in Alberta has reached a four-year tentative agreement with the province after six weeks of formal mediation. The United Nurses of Alberta says ...

At the time the PHMS did not record whether or not the prisoner had given his informed consent regarding that decision, with a nurse noting on the man’s record that she would discuss the issue ...

While the dry wording of the law enabled reliance on tacit or implied consent, the PPA now clarifies that explicit, informed and free consent must be prioritized. The PPA is focusing on section 11 ...

For almost 33 years 220,000 nurses and doctors have been regularly surveyed about their lifestyle, diet and health. Many have died in this time. The authors found that, after controlling for such ...