If you are looking to enter the healthcare industry, you need more than just admissions requirements and step-by-step guides. You need to catch up on what’s happening in healthcare and that changes all the time.
The HealthcareDegree.com blog tackles topics relevant to both those joining the healthcare field and those already working within it. From updated salary figures to ongoing regulatory battles to interviews with professionals, we cover the issues that matter. Check out some of the posts below to learn more about where the healthcare industry is at right now, where it is headed, and how it all affects you.
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Health Careers on the Rise: Medical Science Liaisons at Cannabis Companies
July 16, 2020Most cannabis-related jobs currently support the sale of recreational or medicinal cannabis, but the next wave of cannabis-related jobs could come from the more established—and more lucrative—pharmaceutical industry.
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Combatting Nursing Home Administrator Turnover: Interview with the ACHCA President
July 9, 2020Nursing home administration has a problem with high turnover. As far back as 2001, research found the average annual turnover rate for nursing home administrators (NHAs) to be 43 percent.
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Mentors in Health: An Interview with a Radiation Therapist
June 18, 2020Radiation is used to cure cancer, prevent recurrence, or slow cancer growth. It is also used palliatively to ease symptoms such as pain or breathing difficulties. Using evidence-based practice, radiation therapy is adjusted over the course of treatment based on side effects and outcomes.
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Issues in Health Administration: How the VA Quietly Provides the Top Healthcare in the Country
June 3, 2020The lessons to be learned from the VA’s experiment in high-quality, patient-centered care can have an impact on the way healthcare services are provided in the United States.
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Issues in Mental Health Counseling: Why Rural Communities are Turning to Telehealth
May 27, 2020Telehealth has become a vital lifeline for rural residents, particularly seniors, people with chronic conditions, and those with limited financial or physical means to travel long distances to see providers.
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Applied Behavioral Analysts in New York: The Fight for ABA Access for NYC Schoolchildren
May 19, 2020Until 2012, the NYC Department of Education covered all services for children with disabilities, including individualized instruction, after-school services, and applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy.
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Health Careers on the Rise: The Doulas Coaching Patients through Life…and Death
May 11, 2020To support people and their families through what can be an emotionally difficult time, end-of-life doulas help individuals and families facilitate advanced care planning, settle logistical affairs, create legacy projects, prepare home funeral arrangements, and if requested, end-of-life doulas can be present for a dying person’s transition from life to death.
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Respiratory Health & Vaping: Interview with an Expert
May 5, 2020Replacing tobacco with vape liquid means there are numerous new substances being inhaled into the lungs, and they can be extremely detrimental to a user’s health. One major offender appears to be vitamin E acetate. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 48 out of 51 EVALI patients had vitamin E acetate in the fluid collected from their lungs.
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Deaths of Despair: Interview with an Expert on Mental Health in the U.S.
April 6, 2020The American Dream is integral to the moral and ethical fiber of the United States. As the “Land of Promise,” all citizens are told that with hard work, gumption, and good old-fashioned American ingenuity, anyone can be successful.
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Exercise Physiologists in Michigan: Fighting for Access to Exercise in School
March 23, 2020“It’s an exciting time to be an exercise physiologist because there are so many ways and places to apply this knowledge to help people,” Paulson says. “Now is the time when it serves us all to know more about exercise, not less!”