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Eat more beans to experience benefits to your health
(2023-09-20)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. The topic of today's column is eating more beans for health benefits and advice for integrating beans into a family's regular diet. -
Daily walks can improve digestion, chronic conditions
(2023-09-13)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is "Daily walks can improve digestion, chronic conditions." -
Gut-brain connection affects overall health
(2023-08-30)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is discussing the topic of the gut-brain axis, and how our nutrition can affect its health. -
Complete search strategies for Support for Bereavement Following Child Loss: A Rapid Umbrella Review of Reviews
(2023-08-22)These are the complete search strategies for databases searched for Support for Bereavement Following Child Loss: A Rapid Umbrella Review of Reviews. The following databases were searched: MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase (Elsevier), ... -
More study needed on artificial sweeteners
(2023-08-09)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column is artificial sweeteners need more research. -
Reducing Neurocognitive Impairment In Treating Limited Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
(2023-07-31)Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) represents 15% of lung cancer and is characterized by rapid growth with metastasis resulting in poor survival rates.1 SCLC with a limited stage defined as disease limited to the hemithorax ... -
Pembrolizumab Induced Tumor Shrinkage in Rare Osseous Metastasis of Basal Cell Carcinoma
(2023-07-31)Cutaneous basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is an increasingly common malignancy with a rising incidence over the past decade. 1 BCC seldom exhibits lymphatic or hematogenous metastasis with an incidence of only 0.0028% ... -
Good Nutrition is Important in Pregnancy
(2023-07-12)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column focuses on pregnancy cravings and how to maintain good nutrition during pregnancy. -
Diet can help menstruations rough edges
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Improving Leadership Communication Utilizing Huddle Boards
(2023-07-11)Effective communication is critical within the healthcare industry. The identified problem for this evidnece-based project was a lack of effective leadership communication within a targeted nursing unit. A literature review ... -
Increasing Advance Care Planning in Primary Care
(2023-07-10)Advance Care Planning (ACP) discusses and documents end-of-life healthcare wishes with a medical provider. Having a documented ACP has been shown to decrease Medicare spending while increasing patient quality of life and ... -
Search strategy for the identification of studies on speech accommodation with older adults
(2023)This is the full search strategy for "Speech accommodation in older adults: A scoping review" by Baker et al 2023. Databases searched included Medline (PubMed), Scopus (Elsevier), CINAHL (EBSCOhost), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), ... -
Promoting Engagement in Unlicensed Assistive Personnel
(2023-07-26)Lack of engagement in the unlicensed staff can contribute to the disconnection between unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) and licensed coworkers, leaving the accomplishment of engagement to come from their own personal ... -
Make sure multi-vitamin delivers what you need.
(2023-07-19)This is a weekly Q and A newspaper column under the byline of Dr. Kathy Kolasa. Today's column answers two questions. First are multi vitamins delivered through a gummy as good as those in a pill. The second was about ... -
Preoperative Video Education to Increase Comprehension and Satisfaction in General Surgery Patients
(2023-07-25)Objective: Preoperative education has numerous benefits for patients, providers, and healthcare systems. Preoperative education is a proven intervention to improve surgical out-comes, increase patient satisfaction, reduce ... -
Bonding Through Books: Enhancing Neurodevelopment and Parental Bonding for Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care
(2023-07-11)Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national 501(c)3 nonprofit started in 1989. In recent years, it has expanded its program to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) to provide families with the knowledge and resources they need ... -
Workplace Violence Prevention in the Emergency Department Utilizing the Broset Violence Checklist
(2023-07-21)Workplace violence (WPV) is an epidemic in healthcare and is particularly a problem in high-risk areas of the hospital, such as the Emergency Department (ED). Literature reviewed consisted of minimal information supporting ... -
Implementation of a Structured Evidenced-Based Clinical Faculty Orientation
(2023-07-21)Nursing programs must facilitate curricula in adherence to accreditation body standards to ensure student learning and success. Several factors impact the achievement of program compliance with accreditation standards. ... -
Transfer Checklist: Improving Outcomes for Cardiac Intensive Care Patients
(2023-07-10)Patient transfers are common occurrences in hospital intensive care units. It is a complicated process, which, when inadequate, is associated with negative patient outcomes. These outcomes include medication errors, increased ... -
Leveraging Resources to Improve Access to Occupational Healthcare for Farmers
(2023-07-24)Occupational stress among agricultural workers, limited access to care, and poor health literacy lead to substandard health outcomes for farming communities. Alternative healthcare delivery models can assist in meeting the ...