ATrain Education

05/26/2023

The Department of Health and Human Services is tasked with monitoring denials both by Obamacare health plans and those offered through employers and insurers. As insurers’ denials become more common, they sometimes defy not just medical standards of care but sheer logic. Why hasn’t the agency fu...

05/19/2023

As we mature, many of us may need the care offered by nursing homes. Do we want the places we reside in to have little are no oversight?
SAS the nurse

States report vacancy rates as high as 83% for nursing home inspectors, putting residents at risk, according to a new congressional investigation.

05/15/2023

Thanks a lot, deciding to get a colonoscopy is something many of us like to put off. Now we may have others in the process and decision. 🤔
Sharon the nurse

For patients who have undiagnosed cancer, a months-long delay due to new prior authorization requirements for colonoscopies could be disastrous.

05/09/2023

More info about Nurses leaving bedside nursing.

The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to provide an organization through which boards of nursing act and counsel together on matters of common interest and concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare, including the devel...

05/07/2023

If you are one of the 33%, what are doing when you leave? Is it just bedside nursing you are leaving?
SAS the nurse

Unions representing nurses say the findings from the latest AMN Healthcare survey are not a surprise. The nurses unions have long warned about problems facing the profession.

03/21/2023

The human brain has a way of creating logic, even when it’s drifting from reality.

02/04/2023

My ophthalmologist sent out notice about problem with a type of eye drop. Made me think, maybe I should check for all old eye drops used but not discarded. Could they be suspect also....🤔
SAS the Nurse

EzriCare artificial tears are suspected to be the cause of an outbreak of the VIM-GES-CRPA strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which the CDC said is the first outbreak of its kind in the U.S.

01/29/2023

Does anyone remember giving ASA viridis for pain control? Green ASA suppose to work better...

In this book excerpt, Kathryn Hall, an expert on placebos, considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to them.

01/06/2023

Pay attention to these common signs of infection.

01/06/2023

Should we really be aiming to walk 10,000 steps a day, or drink two litres of water? Time to sift fact from fiction

12/31/2022

Happy New Year from ATrain Education.

12/28/2022

Nurses attracted by talk of high wages found themselves far from home with their salaries cut at renewal time. But a series of lawsuits are pushing back.

12/28/2022

In the hope that lessons for the next pandemic can be found in the things we didn’t anticipate this time, STAT asked 23 experts what had surprised them the most.

12/23/2022

Happy Holidays from all of us at ATrain Education

12/17/2022

There's a reason our perception of time changes as we age — but there are ways to make it feel slower.

12/01/2022

A pandemic-driven workaround that delivers hospital-level care in patients' homes could become a bargaining chip as Congress hashes out a year-end spending deal.

11/29/2022

Two new unpublished studies suggest that patients who got corticosteroid shots saw their knee arthritis advance more quickly than those who didn’t.

11/29/2022

Perspective from The New England Journal of Medicine — It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over…but It’s Never Over — Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases