Many bedside nurses say virtual nursing programs have not eased their workload, though a slight majority have seen benefits to patient care when working alongside virtual nurses, according to a new ...

Hospitals struggling to attract and retain enough registered nurses at the bedside are implementing alternative strategies to ensure patients get needed nursing care. This includes virtual nursing ...

Department of Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China Objective: To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in detecting dysphagia and to compare it ...

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Avoidable deaths, patient-on-patient sexual abuse, and staff neglect: these are the realities for many seniors living in nursing homes in our community. These are realities for ...

Lung point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become an essential tool in hospital medicine, offering rapid bedside assessment of respiratory pathologies, often outperforming chest radiography. 4 Lung ...

"Given the significant potential for impaired quality of life and complications related to speech and swallow dysfunction in this population . . . it’s reasonable that language pathology examination ...

The rate of the number of young children who accidentally swallow nicotine pouches has soared in recent years, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found ...

Data published in the journal Pediatrics found that cases where children under 6 ingested nicotine pouches jumped more than 700% between 2020 and 2023. Natalie Rine, one of the co-authors of the study ...

Swallowing difficulty serves as a significant predictor of frailty progression in older adults, according to new research following nearly 800 community-dwelling Japanese seniors over two years. The ...