COVID-19 Vaccination Information
Under New Jersey’s COVID-19 Vaccination Plan, vaccine access is given to New Jersey’s Phase 1A Group first. This group includes health care workers, who are paid and unpaid persons serving in [...]
New NJSNA President Keeps Focus on COVID Crisis
The New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA) welcomed Mary Ellen Levine, DNP, MSN, RN, CHPN, as its 48th president on New Year’s Day. “These are challenging times for nurses, yet our primary [...]
U.S. Ethics Ratings Rise for Nurses
At the end of a year when medical workers have braved exposure to the coronavirus to provide lifesaving care, Americans have become more likely to laud the honesty and ethics of nurses, medical [...]
Registering with the NJIIS
To further New Jersey’s vaccination rollout, the Division of Consumer Affairs issued Administrative Order 2021-04, which generally applies to licensed health care providers who are authorized to [...]
COVID-19 Vaccination Videos, Toolkit Available
The Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative recently launched a resource designed to address health care professionals’ questions about COVID-19 vaccination. The videos, which feature an [...]
Arthritis Drugs ‘Improve Survival and Recovery’ of COVID-19 Patients
Latest analysis showed that a drug called tocilizumab and another called sarilumab had a significant impact on patient survival, reducing mortality by 8.5%. In addition, researchers found the [...]
No One Should Die Alone
Nurses have been assisting patients to connect with family members by tablets or mobile phones, or in many cases filling in as surrogate family at the time of death. recent initiative, [...]
