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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality. One-third of stores in FMI’s survey have in-store retail health clinics.

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10 Risks of Nurse Disengagement

HealthStream

Nurse engagement measures the degree to which a nurse is committed to their job, the organization for which they work, and the nursing profession as a whole. When nurses become disengaged, patient care can definitely suffer.

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International Nurses Week 2020: Compassion, Expertise, and Trust

Digital Health Today

WHO designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Two additional events, National Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2020) and International Nurses Day (May 12, 2020), provide even more opportunity to recognize the nurses working at the front lines, and how this important group of professionals hold the key to shaping the future of healthcare.

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Overcoming digital barriers in the nursing profession

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At the time, all nursing documentation was done on paper. Change is hard, and for the time-pressured nurse or midwife, it could be difficult to carve out enough time to learn a new system when they already had an embedded practice that worked for them. It’s definitely about the hearts and minds, not just the technology.

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.” ” There was an 8-point growth in those seeing “definite advantages” since 2019. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants. New data on mortality by health care profession reveals that nurses have been harder-hit, too, by COVID-19 than other professions.

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As Food-As-Medicine Gains Momentum, Watch for Dietitians and Pharmacists to Sit at The FaM Table – And A Lesson from George Washington Carver

Health Populi

While we’ve seen the fast growth of registered dietitians working in retail, they are increasingly collaborating with other health professionals — namely registered nurses and medical doctors. This is a key workflow in Food-as-Medicine programs.

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