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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

As a Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) nurse at CentraState Medical Center with many years of ICU experience, Melissa Plastino, RN-BC returned to the ICU to help care for the many COVID-19 [...]

The Door  The coughing, nausea and chills Came in waves of severity, Didn’t know what to expect next Behind the door, I assured my family I was okay I wasn’t… Feeling scared and exhausted [...]

Since the development of COVID-19, normal is no longer a word used in North Jersey hospitals, especially in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Every delivery is considered a possible [...]

Patricia Turner, BSN, RN, CWOCN, CWS, a wound ostomy nurse, wanted to do more to help her colleagues during the pandemic. Patty, who lives in Roxbury and is a NJSNA Region 1 member, started the [...]

With years of tradition behind the Pinning Ceremony for nursing students the pandemic threatened this tradition with a cancellation. Nasim Bibi, a senior nursing student at William Paterson [...]

As an ICU Clinical Director at Monmouth Medical Center during the pandemic the priority for JoAnn Wolfson, DNP, RN, CCRN, NJSNA Region 4 member, was to keep the ICU staff safe by ensuring a safe [...]