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Master vs. Apprentice

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It has come to my recent attention that there is a large deficit in mentoring new graduate nurses as they enter the workforce. The development of healthy working relationships for new graduate nurses is something that is overlooked. Everyone had to have that first day on the unit or in the office when they felt scared and vulnerable. I ask you now to reflect back on your first day and how you were treated.

Submitted by Lauren Golding, BScN

The Importance of Communication and Education toward Patient Literacy: The Relationship of Functional Health and Patient’s Knowledge of Their Chronic Disease and Metabolic Disorder

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The aging populations in the U.S. with ‘Essential’ Hypertension are showing inadequate health literacy, plus its impact on patients with idiopathic chronic diseases such as type II, adult onset Diabetes Mellitus are makeable. To identify among patients with hypertension and/or with diabetes the relationship between their functional health literacy levels, and the role of the registered nurse as communicator and educator.

Submitted by Dr. Gary D. Goldberg, PhD

UN Noticed

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It takes more than the knowledge of degrees can provide. It takes the UN noticed hero, our nursing assistant.

Submitted by Berkley Carter, Nurse Manager, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C.

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